Make It Modern

A History of Art in the 20th Century

Brandon Taylor

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English

Yale University
19 January 2023

Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; General & world history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world

From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from the Great Depression to the rise of consumer culture, artists we call “modern” faced the challenge of responding imaginatively to utterly new circumstances of life. Original thought, startling artistic techniques, and new attitudes to experimentation were required to produce exceptional and timely work.

Make It Modern guides the reader through the art of the modern world. Works of celebrated artists, from Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky to Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, and Yayoi Kusama, alongside a panoply of undervalued or less-known figures, populate this decade-by-decade narrative. Make It Modern tells an unforgettable story of how art was changed forever.

By: Brandon Taylor
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 171mm,
ISBN: 9780300253658
ISBN 10: 0300253656
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 19 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brandon Taylor is professor emeritus of history of art, University of Southampton, and visiting tutor in history and theory of art, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

Reviews for Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century

With admirable clarity and insight, Brandon Taylor takes his readers through the restless, revolutionary impulses of modernist art in all its daring complexity. -Richard Cork, art historian, critic, curator and broadcaster Wise, lucid and often revelatory, this is a masterful survey of modern art. It should be essential reading for any student of the subject. -James Fox, author of The World According to Colour