This text summarises and contextualises the ideas that formed visual arts practices this century. Art, design and architecture are located in their social and political contexts, and the ideas of modernism are traced from the development of industrialised Europe at the turn of the century to the post-industrial, post-colonial present. The complex relationship between modernism and postmodernism in the visual arts is examined and the book concludes with a review of the global impact of the new technologies on art and design production.
About the Author: CHRISTOPHER CROUCH is an artist and writer. He co-ordinates Visual Art Theory at the Western Australian School of Visual Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.
CHRISTOPHER CROUCH is an artist and writer. He co-ordinates Visual Art Theory at the Western Australian School of Visual Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.
