"A History of Modern Art" by: [US] HH Arnason / [US] Elizabeth C. Mansfield Publisher: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House

Introduction
A heavyweight classic in the field of art history and an encyclopedic work on modern art
The standard textbook for European and American universities in the past 50 years, a must-read for understanding modern art
Revised 5 times in 40 years to keep pace with the times, the first authentic and complete version introduced in China
🧾Editor's Recommendation
📓A heavyweight classic in the field of modern art history, it has been a standard textbook for European and American college courses for 50 years. It is a must-read for understanding modern art.
The first edition of this book was completed in 1968. It is the representative work of the famous art historian HH Arnason. It was very popular as soon as it was launched and has been a best-seller in Europe and the United States for more than 50 years. This book is also a pioneering attempt to write a book in the field of "modern art" history. Its pioneering writing has set an example for countless later generations.
Published for more than 50 years, this book has been the standard textbook, reference book, and reference book for modern art history courses in European and American universities, and has been well received by teachers and students. Over the past half century, generations of students have benefited from this book in their understanding of the origin and development of modern art and their understanding of the spirit of modern art. People from all walks of life in the art field, from artists, art historians, critics, curators, university professors, to museum, gallery and non-profit cultural institution staff, collectors and art investors, have benefited greatly from it.
📓An encyclopedic work on modern art, clearly and completely combing the development and changes of art history
This book takes the historical development of art as its main line and time as its connecting clue, focusing on Western visual art since the mid-19th century to the present. It discusses in detail the important artists, artworks and art trends in the history of modern art, covering painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture, while taking into account the impact of changes in society, politics, technology, culture and thought on artistic creation.
The book will implement the explanation into the analysis of specific works. At the same time, the detailed formal analysis is often closely related to the social, political, cultural and economic historical context, and involves the appropriate integration of images, symbols and psychological analysis, helping readers to recognize and understand the works step by step.
📓After 5 revisions over 40 years, it keeps pace with the times and follows the new direction of art history research
Over the past half century since its publication, this book has undergone many revisions, appropriately and timely reflecting the changes in the methods and scope of modern art history research. The sixth edition, presided over by experienced art historian Professor Elizabeth C. Mansfield, has been comprehensively revised chapter by chapter, making it more inclusive in research methods and continuing its content to the status of global contemporary art creation in the early 21st century.
In addition to classical studies, contemporary issues ranging from social art history, postcolonial studies, critical theory to feminism, visual culture studies, and global art history are all touched upon and discussed in this book.
📓The first authentic and complete version introduced in China, the 800,000-word translation has been carefully polished for nearly 10 years
The earlier Chinese translation of this book, "History of Western Modern Art", was published in 1986 (based on the second edition of the original book). At that time, Chinese modernist art was booming, and almost every young Chinese artist who was eager to learn about Western modern art had a copy. The continued enthusiasm of several generations for modern art has had an impact that cannot be ignored or estimated on the tremendous development and changes of modern and contemporary art in China over the past few decades.
After more than 30 years, the original name "History of Modern Art" has been restored. For the first time, the authentic and complete version has been introduced to meet the expectations of a generation of readers! We used the 2010 sixth edition of the original book as the base text, and invited Professor Qian Zhijian, who participated in the translation in the 1980s, to translate it again. After nearly ten years of meticulous work on the translation, we brought the brand new "History of Modern Art" to the Chinese world.
📓Hardcover with pictures and texts, more than 1,200 high-definition pictures with professional color adjustment, try to restore the authenticity of the work
The new minimalist cover is in line with the modernist style of minimalism and light effect-visual illusion in binding, and is printed on hardcover film silver card. Compared with the previous edition, the sixth illustrated revised edition has added more than 200 pictures, and the whole book contains more than 1,200 exquisite pictures. The text layout refers to the original accompanying pictures, and the high-definition pictures of the works are there wherever they are mentioned, which is in line with the readers' habits in the era of reading pictures. Each picture has been professionally toned, replaced, and printed with high quality to restore the original color of the work.
🧾Content Introduction
"A History of Modern Art" is a classic work on the history of art, focusing on the history of modern art since the mid-19th century and its resonance in contemporary art. This book uses time as a connecting thread, art movements, artists and artworks as content pillars, and painting, sculpture, architecture and photography as core types to clearly sort out the development and changes in the history of modern visual art. Since the original English version of this book was first published in 1968, it has been revised several times by many experts and has always been the first choice textbook for modern art history courses in American universities.
The sixth edition of "A History of Modern Art" was comprehensively revised by Elizabeth C. Mansfield, an experienced art historian and writer. It not only updated historical information chapter by chapter and expanded a large number of pictures, but also focused on inclusiveness in content analysis, accommodating many new directions in art history research in keeping with the times.
🧾Celebrity recommendation
For more than four decades, HH Arnason's History of Modern Art has been an indispensable guide to the vast and complex subject of modern art. Revised and expanded by Elizabeth C. Mansfield, this sixth edition provides a comprehensive overview of modern art and offers fascinating new material on postmodernism, globalization, art institutions, and more in the 21st century.
—Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary
Elizabeth Mansfield's revised History of Modern Art is as broad as modernism itself. Beginning with modernism in nineteenth-century France and ending with contemporary globalization, her study is impressively wide-ranging, covering aesthetic developments across a wide range of media. I particularly admired how she organized the enormous diversity of modernism within a clear explanatory framework that runs throughout the book's twenty-seven chapters. Her book will be an invaluable tool for educators.
—Andrés Mario Zervigón, Department of Art History, Rutgers University
Several revisions of Arnason's History of Modern Art have broadened the overall historical context of modernism and explored more comprehensively the meaning of modernism in art and its relationship to the history of the modern Western world. This revised edition includes more European and North American artists and is more mature in its historiographical treatment of art history.
—Damon Willick, Loyola Marymount University