Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction

Author/Contributor(s):	Cottington, David
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	05/26/2005
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction focuses on interrogating the idea of "modern" art by asking such questions as: What makes a work of art qualify as modern, or fail to? How has this selection been made? What is the relationship between modern and contemporary art? Is "postmodernist" art no longer modern, or just no longer modernist? In either case, why--and what does this claim mean, both for art and the idea of "the modern?"