ART of the 20th Century

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Summary: Decent history of 20TH Century Art
Review: I have several art history textbooks that I had to read for school. I generally like Taschen's books because they are attractive and inexpensive. This book is pretty good, it doesn't put you to sleep when you read it like most books like this. Most books that try to cover painting, sculpture, photography and film over a 100 years or so can be very dry. I would reccommend this book over H.H. Arnason's book that I had to read at the Art Inst. of Chicago. I would recommend this book with Stokstad's Art History text. Stokstad taught a friend of mine at Kansas and I found her book to be a good reference. This book, I think, is written by a European...so, it might be good to have an American and European's view of the same subjects.

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Summary: Not what the Amazon.com review says it is.
Review: This is far from the "be-all, end-all guide to art of the past 100 years." In fact, while it does cover a huge number of artists superficially, it leaves out an equally huge number of extremely important 20th century artists, particularly 3-dimensional artists. Where is Ernest Trova? Claude & Francois Lalanne? Chihuly? Where, in God's name, is Duane Hanson, the first and best 3-dimensional Hyperrealist? If you want a superficial and not particularly daring look at 20th century art, this is a decent choice. It is not, however, anything approaching "be-all" or "end-all."

Rating:
Summary: Not what the Amazon.com review says it is.
Review: This is far from the "be-all, end-all guide to art of the past 100 years." In fact, while it does cover a huge number of artists superficially, it leaves out an equally huge number of extremely important 20th century artists, particularly 3-dimensional artists. Where is Ernest Trova? Claude & Francois Lalanne? Chihuly? Where, in God's name, is Duane Hanson, the first and best 3-dimensional Hyperrealist? If you want a superficial and not particularly daring look at 20th century art, this is a decent choice. It is not, however, anything approaching "be-all" or "end-all."