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Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. First Printing. The book has the normal library markings and attachments. Illustrated. 192 pages.

Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. First Printing. The book has the normal library markings and attachments. Illustrated. 192 pages.

Oblong 4to Fine with no wear or markings in a fine jacket with slight wear. 1st printing indicated. Illustrated.

Oblong 4to Fine with no wear or markings in a fine jacket with slight wear. 1st printing indicated. Illustrated.

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

The format is approximately 10.125 inches by 8.125 inches. 192 pages.

The format is approximately 10.125 inches by 8.125 inches. 192 pages. Illustrations. Map. Note to the Reader. Further Reading. Index. Marc Aronson is an author, professor, speaker, editor and publisher. Dr. Aronson's books are arranged in three age groups: Elementary/Middle; Middle/High School; Adult. He is currently engaged in a long-term project to figure out how to best understand and share a full history of the human world. Aronson's love of nonfiction is reflected in his teaching at Rutgers University, where he trains future librarians and his active work as and educational consultant, working with librarians, teachers and administrators. He has addressed national ALA, IRA, NCTE, and NCSS conferences and has been asked to speak to statewide conventions in California, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee as well as schools throughout the country. Aronson has a doctorate in American History – his focus was on William Crary Brownell, Edith Wharton's editor, and he published his conclusions as a lengthy essay in the New York Times Book Review. His parents, the scenic designers Boris and Lisa Aronson, as well as his maternal aunt, the weaver Trude Guermonprez, and grandfather, the conductor Heinrich Jalowetz were deeply involved with the arts and modernism. Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and New York Times Notable Book citations, both 1998, both for Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde. Chris Raschka is an American illustrator, writer, and violist. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College. Raschka may be most famous for his Hello, Goodbye Window, winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal, and his book A Ball for Daisy, which won the 2012 Caldecott Medal. He was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012. Raschka is the author and illustrator of Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, an introduction to the saxophone player and composer Charlie Parker (Scholastic, 1997). In the army, the advance guard is the first wave of soldiers who rush into enemy territory, risking their lives to map out the terrain. In the arts, the avant-garde consists of people who have devoted their talents, even their lives, to seeing the future and to confronting others with their visions. This intriguing introduction to modern art examines the avant-garde from its nineteenth-century origins in Paris to its meaning and influence today. It presents the visionaries who took the greatest risks, who saw the furthest, and who made the most challenging art-art that changed how we imagine our world. From cubism to pop art and beyond, this is the story not only of those risk takers, but of their creations and of the times in which they lived. In Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde, Aronson explains that throughout history avant-garde artists have challenged the world with their personal visions, and that young artists, even adolescents, have often taken the greatest risks to bring their art to the public. "What an exciting invitation to a brisk but rigorous survey that connects Marcel Duchamp, the Russian avant-garde and Mondrian to Charles Ives and the Sex Pistols! " observed a reviewer in the New York Times Book Review. Indeed, it is through such cross-cultural and cross-generic connections that Art Attack manages to offer fresh insights into the history of twentieth-century art despite its brevity, according to reviewers. Throughout the volume, art movements and the work of individual artists are explored in conjunction with the evolution of twentieth-century music. "In fact, what is unique and appealing in Aronson's cultural history is his placing of experimental and popular music within the art world, " remarked Shirley Wilton in School Library Journal. Thus, Aronson juxtaposes the artwork of the Dadaists and rap music, Jean-Michel Basquiat's expressive scribbles and the jazz innovations of Philip Glass. The result...