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The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Richard Ellmann, Robert O'Clair, ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

tremendous anthology
In the past I've read less expensive anthologies, but the quality of the selections and the excellent introductions (especially the poetics section at the back) make it well worth the extra money. To double your pleasure, read the first volume in conjunction with an ...
  
  











  



  
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Vol. 2)
Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, ...

Thames & Hudson, 2005

Great Survey
Forget Gardener, these four giants of art history compile an international picture. Each year is represented by an article. One can read the book chronologically, topically, or by author. If you have to read a survey of art history, this is it.
  
  











  



  
Naive: Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design

Die Gestalten Verlag, 2009

Beautifully Done & Visually Inspiring!
It's 176 pages are loaded with beautiful and contemporary illustrations ranging from textiles and stationary to poster art and book covers. The editors did an impeccable job at selecting the artwork to go into this book because every page is inspiring, vibrant and ...
  
  











  



  
Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s-1990s
Linda Weintraub

Art Insights, Inc., 1997

A great book for teachers
I am a professor and I use this book for my 400 level content development class. It's always a challenge to explain postmodernism and conceptualism to undergraduates, but this book really helps. It gets them past the notion that all art should be "pretty" or a function ...
  
  











  



  
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Vol. 1: 1900-1944
Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, ...

Thames & Hudson, 2005

student review
This book was recommended for the senior-level art history course at the art academy I currently attend. Clear, erudite reading, followed by colorful reproductions and chronological tabs. The visual breakdowns are though-provoking, often raising more than one opinion ...
  
  











  



  
Readings in Social Theory: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism
James Farganis

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007

Farganis is one of the most rigorous minds in social theory
Farganis begin not only by covering the standard intellectual history aspects of major social thinkers (e.g. biography, afflications, influences) but also by looking at the hard questions that come from the philosophic assumptions and lineage of each thinker. His ...
  
  











  



  
The Humanistic Tradition, Book 6: Modernism, Globalism, and the Information Age (Humanistic Tradtion)
Gloria Fiero

McGraw-Hill, 2005

I've never read this either....
However giving the book a one star review based on the fact that you had a bad experience with Amazon is unacceptable. Your poor rating hurts the author much more then it hurts Amazon. Many a casual browser will not even browse further past a one star rating. And ...
  
  











  



  
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
David Harvey

Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

Po-Mo Schmomo?
Ask ten academics about what to call our present fin-de-siecle epoch and you'll get ten different labels, but "postmodernism" seems always the default term. Although it's twelve years old, Harvey's book is the best I've read about the pluralistic fabric we daily ...
  
  











  



  
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
David Shields

Knopf, 2010

An open call for new literary and other art forms to match the complexities of the twenty-first century. Reality TV dominates broadband. YouTube and Facebook dominate the web. In Reality Hunger: A Manifesto , his landmark new book, David Shields (author of the New York Times best seller The Thing About Life Is That One Day You?ll Be Dead ) ...
  
  











  



  
The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism
Nicholas Fox Weber

Knopf, 2009

The Bauhaus Group
In//The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism//,art historian, Nicholas Fox Weber has written a timely (a Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibition: "Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity," a Guggenheim retrospective: "Kandinsky, and the 90th anniversary) "group" ...
  
  











  



  
Modern Art: Impressionism to Post-Modernism

Thames & Hudson, 2008

Modern Art!
I just purchased this book, it looks wonderful. It has the quality of a textbook, but it does not read like a textbook. that is to say it does not drone on and on, it reads well for those who have an interest in modern art. I cover all the periods of modern art and ...
  
  











  



  
Architecture After Modernism (World of Art)
Diane Ghirardo

Thames & Hudson, 1996

terrific
Thought provoquing and illuminating. Always analyzing architecture from the larger scope of society. Never apologetic nor reserved in her comments, the author comes out as a real person. Whether you agree or disagree with her, I prefer a book like this one than a ...
  
  











  



  
American Modern
Thomas O'Brien, Lisa Light

Abrams, 2010

Designer and merchant, collector and tastemaker, Thomas O?Brien has made a career of translating cool notions of modernism into an easy and generous array of modern styles that anyone can attain. Now he introduces readers to a range of those styles?from casual to formal, vintage to urban?alongside stunning photography and charming design stories. ...
  
  











  



  
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Volumes 1-2 (College Text Paperback Two-Volume ...
Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, ...

Thames & Hudson, 2005

A landmark in art history and the most anticipated art publishing event of the new millennium. In this groundbreaking and original work of scholarship, four of the most influential and provocative art historians of our time have come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the twentieth century, an age when artists in the United ...
  
  











  



  
Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation (Oxford History of Art)
Richard R. Brettell

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

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