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The American century : art and culture (1950-2000)

By: Phillips, Lisa.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York Whitney Museum Of American Art 1999Description: 398p.ISBN: 0393048152.Subject(s): Art, AmericanDDC classification: 709.730747471 | P541a
Contents:
Shortly after the Second World War a group of American artists moved away from representation and realism toward a completely nonrepresentational style which became known as abstract expressionism. Led by Jackson Pollock, Willem DeKooning, and others, it was the first truly American painting style, and it quickly moved the United States into the forefront of innovation. A succession of other movements followed, including Pop Art, and adherents like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the performance art of John Cage and others; video art, led by Nam Juin Paik; and installation art of grand proportions. In this expansive volume Lisa Phillips explains the excitement and inventiveness of American artists in the context of the varied and sometimes turbulent social environment as well as the expanding economy of postwar America. Essays by experts in related fields illuminate parallel and diverse developments in architecture, dance, music, literature, painting, sculpture, cinema, and design.
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Reference Reference PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur
Reference 709.730747471 P541a (Browse shelf) Reference A169482
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709.67 Ar75 Art of Africa 709.73074 V668m Minimal 709.730747471 H273a The American century 709.730747471 P541a The American century 709.730904 T687 A transatlantic avant-garde 709.8 An88p Pre-columbian art and later Indian tribal arts 711.558 K867u Urban spaces

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Shortly after the Second World War a group of American artists moved away from representation and realism toward a completely nonrepresentational style which became known as abstract expressionism. Led by Jackson Pollock, Willem DeKooning, and others, it was the first truly American painting style, and it quickly moved the United States into the forefront of innovation. A succession of other movements followed, including Pop Art, and adherents like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the performance art of John Cage and others; video art, led by Nam Juin Paik; and installation art of grand proportions. In this expansive volume Lisa Phillips explains the excitement and inventiveness of American artists in the context of the varied and sometimes turbulent social environment as well as the expanding economy of postwar America. Essays by experts in related fields illuminate parallel and diverse developments in architecture, dance, music, literature, painting, sculpture, cinema, and design.

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