Welcome to reviews about modern and contemporary art!

This wiki offers book reviews, exhibition reviews and profiles of works of modern and contemporary art. All are written by students in AEAH 4812 Modernism and the Visual Arts and AEAH 4813 Postmodernism and the Visual Arts at the College of Visual Arts, University of North Texas.

Welcome to research roadmaps for modern and postmodern art!

This wiki offers suggestions for researching modern and postmodern art as well as a Dictionary of Concepts providing ideas relevant to the reviews.

How to use this website:

To navigate the site, select topics appearing in the Sidebar column appearing to the right.  In addition to reviews and object profiles, topics cover relevant terminology and concepts.

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Click to review updated Exhibition Reviews: 

Dallas Arboretum - “Artscape 2008”

Dallas Museum of Art - “Making it New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy”

Kimbell Art Museum - “The Impressionists and Modern Times”

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth - “Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love"

Click to review updated Book Reviews:

Miles Orvell, After the Machine: Visual Arts and the Erasing of Cultural Boundaries.

Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual In Art.

Marian Wardle, ed., American Women Modernist: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910 - 1945.

Umbro Apollonio, ed., Futurist Manifestos.

Mauro F. Guillen. The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture.

History of the Wiki

This wiki was created to provide a common, electronically accessible and ongoing resource where the CVAD community can read reviews of recent exhibitions, book reviews of publications in modernism, postmodernism and contemporary art, and essays on selected works of art and visual culture, authored by students enrolled in AEAH 4812 and AEAH 4814.  The creation of the wiki during 2008 was supported both by a University of North Texas Learning Enhancement Grant obtained by Dr. Jennifer Way and the dedication, know-how and perspicacity of her project assistants: MA Art History graduate students Elizabeth Ansell, Emily Black, Lauren LaRocca and Lisa Nersesova.

Images from left to right: Ann Graham, I Know What You Mean and So Does Everyone Else, 2007; Christina Garza-Mitchell, Border Guard, 2007; Don Schol, Family Tree House, 2007; Susan Cheal, Cold Shallows, 2004, Millie Giles, Chautauqua Reflections, Date Unknown; Annette Lawrence, Supreme, 1999; Jerry Austin, Esmeralda, Date Unknown; Elmer Taylor, Lidded Jar, 2007; Vincent Falsetta, Number 156, 2007; Vincent Falsetta, AE 99-10, 1999.