ART of the 20th Century

From Klimt to Koons and everything in between: it's all here (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term "art" has been defined and redefined so many times over the last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social...

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From Klimt to Koons and everything in between: it's all here (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term "art" has been defined and redefined so many times over the last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social, political, and technological meanings. Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, including photography and new media, and thematically chaptered to highlight relationships between works and movements, this readable and encyclopaedic masterwork does just what it says on the cover. Whether you want Surrealism or Land Art, Fluxus or Bauhaus, this is your be-all, end-all guide to art of the 20th century. An undertaking as immensely ambitious as this one deserves to be owned by everyone, which is why we decided to make a special, more compact edition of this two-volume classic in celebration of 25

Contents
Painting / by Karl Ruhrberg
1 Prologue to Modernism 7
The Magic of Light
The Janus Face of Impressionism
The Painting of Pure Reason
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Contents
Painting / by Karl Ruhrberg
1 Prologue to Modernism 7
The Magic of Light
The Janus Face of Impressionism
The Painting of Pure Reason
Seurat and the Neo-Impressionists
In Search of a Lost Paradise
The Work and Legend of Paul Gauguin
Truth beyond Beauty
Van Gogh: Painting as Dramatic Action
World Art from the Provinces
Paul Cézanne: the Primitive of a New Art
2 The World as Symbol 22
The Art of Initiates
Symbolism and its Consequences
A Closed Society
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the World of Montmartre
Art as a Philosophy
Ferdinand Hodler: Swiss Symbolist
3 The Break with History 30
Youth Wipes the Slate Clean
The End of the Historical Definition of Art
Masquerades
The Haunted Realm of James Ensor
Life unto Death
The Crisis of Modern Consciousness in the Work of Edvard Munch
4 Expression and Form 37
The Fauves and their Classic Representative
Matisse and his Circle
Sensation and Ecstasy
Northern German Expressionism
The struggle for a New World
The “Brücke” Painters and their Utopia
A Belated Heir of the Baroque
Oskar Kokoschka: Viennese Expressionist
Universal Anxiety and a New Acquiescence
Meidner, Morgner, Schiele and Late Expressionism
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