20th Century Art Book Mini Edition

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Solla, January 2, 2010 (view all comments by Solla)
Each page contains a color reproduction of an artwork (500 artworks), and a couple of paragraphs of commentary about the work and its context. There is a note about the date, place, dimensions of the work, and the date of birth and (if applicable) death of the artist. 4 - 6 names of closely related artists are listed for most. It is probably no better and no worse than most other anthologies for including women, but did have one work each for two that are not always included, Kollwitz and Modersohn-Becker. It includes the range of works you would expect in the title (western works it seems to me, but I am not familiar with 20th century non-Western works, so don't know the names of artists to look up). I might not always agree on the single work to include, but the works of Kollwitz and Becker, Morandi, O'Keefe and others seemed fairly representative of their work. There's a bit on art terms and movements at the end. Overall it is a good place to scan through artists to find those whose works you might want to explore more.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780714838502

Author:

Phaidon Press

Publisher:

Phaidon Press

Location:

London :

Subject:

History, modern

Subject:

20th century

Subject:

Art, modern

Subject:

History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)

Subject:

Art, Modern -- 20th century.

Subject:

Art - General

Copyright:

1999

Edition Number:

1999 ed.

Edition Description:

Mini

Series Volume:

034

Publication Date:

19990331

Binding:

Novelty

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

520

Dimensions:

6.62x4.88x1.08 in. 1.15 lbs.