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Visions of the Modern

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Visions of the Modern
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Golding
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 233,Width 153
Category/GenreTheory of art
Art and design styles - c 1800 to c 1900
Art and design styles - from c 1900 to now
Painting and paintings
ISBN/Barcode 9780500277607
ClassificationsDewey:759.06
Audience
General
Undergraduate
Illustrations 38 Illustrations, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 23 January 1995
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

John Golding is one of the most highly regarded living writers on modern art. "Visions of the Modern" assembles many of his most important essays: some long out of print, others first published in journals inaccessible to the average reader, still others which started life as lectures. Together they create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. A distinguished painter in his own right, John Golding taught for many years at the Courtauld Institute and at the Royal College of Art, and has held the Slade Professorship at Cambridge. He brings to his scholarship a particular understanding of the way in which the giants of modernism - Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Malevich, Brancusi, Duchamp and others - faced and achieved their goals and careers. And a dialogue between Golding and the philosopher Richard Wollheim casts new light on the origins and aims of abstract art.

Reviews

"A personable overview of Europe's early modern art. . . .Golding writes in a chatty and effusive fan's manner, adding only subtle tweaks to the existing historical record, not trendy revisionsim. . . . Overall, a caring and tender appreciation pf the great early figures of Modernism summoned with scrupulous scholarship."--"Kirkus Reviews