Painting in a World Transformed: How Modern Art Reflects Our Conflicting Responses to Science and Change

by William H. Libaw

This book shows how painting since the mid-1800s has reflected Western society's mixed feelings about the transformations in our world produced by science and technology. Neither a chronicle of the development of modern art nor a history of the modern era, it instead discusses how artists have represented feelings and ideas about the technological changes of modern times. Some artists approach this task with an outward focus, representing the world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786422114
• ISBN13: 9780786422111
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher