Post Modern Art: 1945-2008

SYNOPSIS

Richly illustrated and clearly focused, POST-MODERN ART surveys American and European art, 1945-2008. It discusses the major art movements and features all the great painters who changed the landscape of art history, including Pollock, Rauschenberg, Warhol, De Koonus, Haring and others. The volume contains an overview of other artistic disciplines-sculpture, architecture, design, cinema, and photography. It also includes a detailed chronological table and biographies of the artists. This comprehensive and authoritative gift volume reflects the vitality, complexity, and unfolding patterns of modern art and will appeal to a general audience.

AUTHOR PROFILE

Francesco Poli is a professor of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, Italy. He is the author of Art and the Marketplace (1975), The Twentieth Century (1985), Dictionary of Contemporary Art (1994), Minimalism, Arte Povera and Conceptual Art (1992), and Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art (2001).