Movements in Art since 1945

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The history of the visual arts since the war has been extraordinarily complex, and, until now, no good account of the subject has been available. Edward Lucie-Smith is one of the ablest and most highly regarded of the younger generation of art critics. In this book he provides a clear, swift-moving narrative in which he discusses all the principal art movements of the past twenty-five years: in England, the United States, France and other countries. He analyses the achievements of the leading artists, describing the tradition from which they sprang and the ideas which prompted each successive change in style. With an unerring sense of historical perspective, he demonstrates the way in which each movement is related to its predecessors, rivals and successors.
Edward Lucie-Smith's thesis is that the art which is now being created is essentially a late phase of a movement which began as early as 1905, with the Fauves. He sees it as something which has to contend with... Tovább

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The history of the visual arts since the war has been extraordinarily complex, and, until now, no good account of the subject has been available. Edward Lucie-Smith is one of the ablest and most highly regarded of the younger generation of art critics. In this book he provides a clear, swift-moving narrative in which he discusses all the principal art movements of the past twenty-five years: in England, the United States, France and other countries. He analyses the achievements of the leading artists, describing the tradition from which they sprang and the ideas which prompted each successive change in style. With an unerring sense of historical perspective, he demonstrates the way in which each movement is related to its predecessors, rivals and successors.
Edward Lucie-Smith's thesis is that the art which is now being created is essentially a late phase of a movement which began as early as 1905, with the Fauves. He sees it as something which has to contend with many difficulties, not least with the burden of its own revolutionary past.
'This is a book that will give a concise answer to almost any question that a general reader is likely to ask about the art of the last twenty-five years', John Russell in The Sunday Times
'I can think of few critics I would rathei have direct me along the highways and byways of the past 25 years than the ubiquitous Mr Lucie-Smith', Edwin Mullins in The Sunday Telegraph
Edward Lucie-Smith was born in 1933 in Kingston, Jamaica, and in 1946 came to England. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Merton College, Oxford, where he read History. He has written art criticism and book reviews for the New Statesman, The Listener, Studio International and many other journals, and broadcast frequently on the BBC in the 'Critics' programme. He has published three books of verse {A Tropical Childhood, Confessions and Histories and Towards Silence) and a volume of collected articles from The Times entitled Thinking about Art, and has edited several anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse and British Poetry Since the War. Vissza