The shock of the new : art and the century of change / Robert Hughes.
By: Hughes, Robert
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BookPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1991 (2009)Edition: Rev. ed.Description: 444 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0500275823.Subject(s): Art, Modern -- 19th century | Art, Modern -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 709.04 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written.
Through each of the thematic chapters Hughes keeps his story grounded in the history of the 20th century, demonstrating how modernism sought to describe the experience of that era and showing how for many key art movements this was a task of vital importance.
The way in which Hughes brings that vitality and immediacy back through the well-chosen example and well-turned phrase is the heart of this book's success.
Bibliography: (pages 429-433) and index.
The mechanical paradise -- The faces of power -- The landscape of pleasure -- Trouble in utopia -- The threshold of liberty -- The view from the edge -- Culture as nature -- The future that was.
CIT Module EDUC 9005 - Core reading.
CIT Module ARTS 6001 - Supplementary reading
CIT Module DESI 6008 - Core reading
CIT Module ARTS 6001 - Core reading
CCAE copy - UCC Fund
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 The Mechanical Paradise
- 2 The Abiding Violence
- 3 The Landscape of Pleasure
- 4 Trouble in Utopia
- 5 The Threshold of Liberty
- 6 The View from the Edge
- 7 Culture as Nature
- 8 The Future That Was
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Robert Hughes was born in Sydney, Australia on July 28, 1938. He studied art and architecture at the University of Sydney. He pursued art criticism mostly as a sideline while painting, writing poetry and serving as a cartoonist for the weekly intellectual journal The Observer. He left Australia and spent time in Italy before settling in London, where he became a well-known critical voice and wrote for several newspapers. He was chief art critic for Time magazine for over 30 years.He wrote several books including The Fatal Shore, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America, Things I Didn't Know, and Rome. He also hosted an eight-part documentary about the development of modernism from the Impressionists through Warhol entitled The Shock of the New. It was seen by more than 25 million viewers when it ran first on BBC and then on PBS. He also wrote a book by the same name about the series. He died after a long illness on August 6, 2012 at the age of 74.
(Bowker Author Biography)