Movements in Art since 1945

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This ne»- á d augrr rned edirion br the history of ual arts since the
war forwa to evr T of « ? -rid f 970s, and in particular, to the shift of a - r " i Ider^Mhe first good concis» account of
t.-is "" c li ^ wa d bi o v Lh's bool< has already established itself
as a classic. It pT-"''es a clear, swift-moving narrative of the principal art movements of the past thirty years: in the United States, England, 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 isuccessive 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 whichVias to contend with many difficulties,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This ne»- á d augrr rned edirion br the history of ual arts since the
war forwa to evr T of « ? -rid f 970s, and in particular, to the shift of a - r " i Ider^Mhe first good concis» account of
t.-is "" c li ^ wa d bi o v Lh's bool< has already established itself
as a classic. It pT-"''es a clear, swift-moving narrative of the principal art movements of the past thirty years: in the United States, England, 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 isuccessive 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 whichVias 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 a$k about the art of the last twenty-five years', John Russell in The Sunday Times.! / i
'I can think of few critics I would rather have direct me along the highways and byways of the past 25 years than the ubiquitous Mr Lucie-Smith', Edwin M\Mns \n The Sunday Telegraph. < ,
Edward Lucie-SmitK . .
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. ;
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Well known as poet, journalist and broadcaster, he is the author of a number of volumes of verse, including A Tropical Childhood, Confessions and Histories and Towards Silence. He has edited several anthologies - among them The Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse and British Poetry since 1945-an6 has also pubHshed A Concise History of French Painting, Eroticism jn Western Art and Symbolist Art (all in the 'World of Art Library'), ar\6 Thinking about Art (collected articles from' The Times). Vissza