Twentieth-Century American Art
by Erika Doss
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Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century. From the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, a rapid succession of art movements and different styles reflected the extreme changes in American culture and society, as well as America's position within the international art world. This exciting new look at twentieth century American art explores the relationships show more between American art, museums, and audiences in the century that came to be called the 'American century'... show lessTags
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Erika Doss is professor of fine arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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- Canonical title
- Twentieth-Century American Art
- Original publication date
- 2002
- First words
- Consider two American artworks: Abbott Henderson Thayer's Virgin Enthroned (1891) and Kiki Smith's Virgin Mary (1992).
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Moving beyond autobiographical solipsim, searching for ways to manage and critique an accelerated flow of information and new technology, such artists shift private concerns to larger cultural contexts and drew on the legacy of American history and art to form new perspectives about the nation, its culture and themselves in the twenty-first century.
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- English
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