History of Modern Art (Paper cover) (6th Edition)

The late H. H. Arnason and Elizabeth C. Mansfield, Associate Professor of art history at New York University, joined forces to present students with an influential survey in their textbook History of Modern Art (Paper cover) (6th Edition), ISBN 9780136062066. This engaging and artfully illustrated text provides coverage of the emerging trends and impacts in painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture dating back to the mid-nineteenth century through the present day. An easy-to-follow chronological presentation is combined with a cohesive narrative to give the reader a pleasant learning experience. The thematic inclusion of contemporary art also serves as a positive attribute of this book. A myriad of revised and new features are integrated into this latest edition including more and better quality pictures as well as new coverage of globalization and the impact of modernism on non-Western and developing countries. H. H. Arnason and Elizabeth C. Mansfield artfully organized the contents of History of Modern Art (Paper cover) (6th Edition) across 27 all-inclusive chapters. These chapters present information on such concepts and events as modern painting, realism, impressionism, and early photography, post-impressionism, origins of modern architecture and design, Art Nouveau and the beginnings of expressionism, modern sculpture, Fauvism, expressionism in Germany, cubism, futurism, and early twentieth-century architecture. Other topics presented in this text include that of surrealism, modern architecture between the wars, American art before World War II, abstract expressionism, postwar European art, pop art, sixties abstraction, the second wave of international style architecture, the pluralistic seventies, postmodernism in architecture, the retrospective eighties, and finally, resistance and resolution.