This companion text to the author's Learning to Look at Paintings addresses
some of the questions commonly asked about modern art, covering key movements
of the modern and postmodern periods in an illustrated volume.This companion volume to the author's Learning to Look at Paintings
addresses some of the questions most commonly asked about modern art. Why does
it appear so different from the art of the past? Why is it so difficult to
understand? How should we approach it? Acton suggests that the best way to
understand modern art is to look closely at it, and to consider the different
elements that make up each art work - composition, space and form, light and
colour and subject matter. Her engaging and beautifully-written guide to art of
the modern and postmodern period covers key art movements including
Expressionism, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, Surrealism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art
and Young British Art, and artistic forms such as architecture and design,
sculpture and installation as well as works on canvas. The book is richly
illustrated with colour and black and white images by the artists, designers
and architects discussed, ranging from Picasso and Matisse to Le Corbusier,
Andy Warhol and Rachel Whiteread.
