Art in the Seventies

by Edward Lucie-Smith

Book Overview

A critic and historian of art who is deeply immersed in the works and trends of the seventies here provides the first general survey of the decade. In a volume alive with visual images that are often surprising and sometimes disturbing, he analyzes the development both of old forms and of new ones, and provides a coherent framework for the general reader.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801491940
• ISBN13: 9780801491948
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

recommended

Well-written, objective analysis with a lot of photos and images of artworks. Covers influences of Pop Art, Minimal Art and Conceptual Art of the sixties on artists of the seventies leading to new interests in illusionism, figuration and realism.