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The formalesque : a guide to modern art and its history / Bernard Smith.

The formalesque : a guide to modern art and its history / Bernard Smith.
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ISBN 9781876832339
Name Smith, Bernard, 1916-2011. author.
Title The formalesque : a guide to modern art and its history / Bernard Smith.
Published South Yarra, Victoria : Macmillan, 2007
2007.
Description 135 pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.
Notes For tertiary students.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- On words -- On style -- On form -- On meaning -- Epilogue.
Summary "[This book] begins by listing and carefully explaining those terms which frequently occur in arts literature dealing with the modern period and then goes on to show that 'modernism' has become an historical period with its art forms both 'institutionalised' and 'globalised'. Now an historical entity, art history's basic tools can be employed to explain and describe it. They include an investigation of the period's 'style', use of 'form' and attitudes to 'meaning'. In his defence of art history's traditions and methodologies he argues that the period that encompasses 'modernism' in the arts might now be known as The Formalesque." -- Publisher description.
Subjects Modernism (Art)
Postmodernism
Art, Modern -- 20th century
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