Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century
A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world

From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from the Great Depression to the rise of consumer culture, artists we call “modern” faced the challenge of responding imaginatively to utterly new circumstances of life. Original thought, startling artistic techniques, and new attitudes to experimentation were required to produce exceptional and timely work.

Make It Modern guides the reader through the art of the modern world. Works of celebrated artists, from Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky to Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, and Yayoi Kusama, alongside a panoply of undervalued or less-known figures, populate this decade-by-decade narrative. Make It Modern tells an unforgettable story of how art was changed forever.

 
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Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century
A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world

From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from the Great Depression to the rise of consumer culture, artists we call “modern” faced the challenge of responding imaginatively to utterly new circumstances of life. Original thought, startling artistic techniques, and new attitudes to experimentation were required to produce exceptional and timely work.

Make It Modern guides the reader through the art of the modern world. Works of celebrated artists, from Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky to Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, and Yayoi Kusama, alongside a panoply of undervalued or less-known figures, populate this decade-by-decade narrative. Make It Modern tells an unforgettable story of how art was changed forever.

 
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Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century

Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century

by Brandon Taylor
Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century

Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century

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A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world

From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from the Great Depression to the rise of consumer culture, artists we call “modern” faced the challenge of responding imaginatively to utterly new circumstances of life. Original thought, startling artistic techniques, and new attitudes to experimentation were required to produce exceptional and timely work.

Make It Modern guides the reader through the art of the modern world. Works of celebrated artists, from Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky to Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, and Yayoi Kusama, alongside a panoply of undervalued or less-known figures, populate this decade-by-decade narrative. Make It Modern tells an unforgettable story of how art was changed forever.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300253658
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/29/2022
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 6.75(w) x 9.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

About The Author
Brandon Taylor is professor emeritus of history of art, University of Southampton, and visiting tutor in history and theory of art, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface 6

The 1910s: When Human Nature Changed 8

1 The Impulse to Express 10

2 Futurism and Cubism 22

3 Russian Experiments 44

4 The Dada Revolt 60

The 1920s: Looking Forward, Looking Back 78

5 Modern Classicisms 80

6 Surrealism and Painting 96

7 The Elementarist Ideal 112

8 Germany and Russia in the 1920s 128

The 1930s: The 'Low Dishonest' Decade 144

9 Surrealism: Objects and Sculpture 146

10 Battles over 'Abstract' Art 162

11 Art and Politics in the 1930s 180

12 Modern Art in America 196

The 1940s: Transatlantic Exchanges 214

13 Geometries of Hope 216

14 Art between Paris and New York 232

The 1950s: Climates of the Cold War 252

15 Informe! International 254

16 London in the 1950s 272

17 In the Vernacular: Beat and Assemblage 290

18 Hard-edge, Kinetic and Minimal Form 306

19 The 1960s: After Modern Art 324

Notes 335

Further Reading 352

Index 355

Picture Credits 363

Acknowledgements 368

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