Seventy years ago the Dada movement proclaimed, "Art is dead"; if so, it has had an exciting afterlife. The twentieth-century world of art has boiled with rebellion and ...

"Gaggi demonstrates an unusual ability to explain postmodern theory in a clear and accessible manner as he follows the problem of the subject through painting and photography ...

This book shows how painting since the mid1800s has reflected Western societys mixed feelings about the transformations in our world produced by science and technology. Neither ...

From the Publisher: Concentrating on North American and European artists from the Renaissance to the present, Artists covers the life stories of 62 sculptors, painters ...