ConceptualRevolutionsinTwentieth-CenturyArt[20世纪艺术的概念性变革]

FromPicasso'sCubismandDuchamp'sreadymadestoWarhol'ssilkscreensandSmithson'searthworks,theartofthetwentiethcenturybrokecompletelywithearlierartistictraditions.Abasicchangeinthemarketforadvancedartproducedaheighteneddemandforinnovation,andyoungconceptualinnovators-fromPicassoandDuchamptoRauschenbergandWarholtoCindyShermanandDamienHirst-respondednotonlybycreatingdozensofnewformsofart,butalsobybehavinginwaysthatwouldhavebeenincomprehensibletotheirpredecessors.ConceptualRevolutionsinTwentieth-CenturyArtpresentsthefirstsystematicanalysisofthereasonsforthisdiscontinuity.DavidW.Galenson,whoseearlierresearchhaschangedourunderstandingofcreativity,combinessocialscientificmethodswithqualitativeanalysistoproduceafundamentallynewinterpretationofmodernartthatwillgivereadersafardeeperappreciationoftheartofthepastcentury,andoftoday,thanisavailableelsewhere.