Casebier, Allan

Dr. Allan Casebier is Emeritus Professor, University of Southern California, and Visiting Scholar, University of Miami. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to India and has lectured at various colleges and universities in the United States and around the world.

A NEW THEORY IN THE PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF THREE TWENTIETH-CENTURY STYLES IN ART:
Modernism, Postmodernism, and Surrealsim

2006 0-7734-5816-6
This book provides the reader with the first comprehensive explanation of the much used distinction between modernist and postmodernist art. Where so many readers and appreciators of the arts find the distinction confronting them at every turn but are unable to understand its nature or comprehend its value, the book provides a conceptual map of the terrain in which the distinction functions. At the same time, the notion of a surrealist style often leaves the reader of history of the arts with sheer mystification where clarity would be most welcome. It provides a much needed corrective to this situation by indicating how to identify surrealist art from its opposing styles. The book provides many illustrations in explaining these three dominant artistic styles of the twentieth century.

This work will appeal to academic readers in history of the arts, cinema and art history; theorists and students of literature and film; and general readers in the history of the arts.