Synopses & Reviews
Since its first publication in 1994, this book has established itself as the most popular and highly regarded textbook in the field. It embraces many aspects of the so-called "new" art history while at the same time emphasizing the remarkable vitality, salience, and subversiveness of the era's best art. The new edition includes four revised chapters together with a substantially expanded chapter on photography. With more than a dozen new images, this rich and diverse volume will interest students, specialists, and anyone fascinated by this dynamic period. In addition to Stephen F. Eisenman, the contributors are Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin, David Llewellyn Phillips, and Frances K. Pohl.
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Handsomely illustrated....The interpretations of [the artists'] work are thoughtful.An impressive encyclopedic volume...such vigor, clarity, and scholarship that it must be regarded as required reading.
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"Rich in ideas and illustrations...of interest to scholars and art enthusiasts alike."--
About the Author
Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor of Art History at Northwestern UniversityLinda Nochlin is a highly celebrated feminist art historian. She is the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art Emerita at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her major books include Courbet, Representing Women, and Women, Art, and Power. She co-curated, with Maura Reilly, the acclaimed exhibition Global Feminisms (2007).Frances K. Pohl is the Dr. Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds Professor of Humanities and Professor of Art History at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Since moving to Pomona in 1985, she has taught a wide variety of courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century North American art. Her work has focused on the art of the United States, in particular the work of Ben Shahn, about whom she has written two books, and the relationship between the visual arts and working-class culture. Professor Pohl has taught in the United States for many years, but her Canadian origins give her a unique continental perspective on American art.