Art Attack - A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde

Informationen zum Autor Marc Aronson is the award-winning author of a wide variety of nonfiction works for younger readers, including Sugar Changed the World and Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado , which received the first Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award. He edits and publishes young adult fiction in a special arrangement with Candlewick and lives with his wife and two sons in Maplewood, New Jersey. Visit him at marcaronson.com. Zusammenfassung In the army, the advance guard is the first wave of soldiers who rush into enemy territory, risking their lives to map out the terrain. In the arts, the avant-garde consists of people who have devoted their talents, even their lives, to seeing the future and to confronting others with their visions. This intriguing introduction to modern art examines the avant-garde from its nineteenth-century origins in Paris to its meaning and influence today. It presents the visionaries who took the greatest risks, who saw the furthest, and who made the most challenging art-art that changed how we imagine our world. From cubism to pop art and beyond, this is the story not only of those risk takers, but of their creations and of the times in which they lived. Notes, bibliography, index.

Product details

• Authors: Marc Aronson
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.1998
• EAN: 9780395797297
• ISBN: 978-0-395-79729-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 260 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: ART: History / General, ART: History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION: Art / History *, adult;teen;history;art;young;nonfiction