Full Description
This concise and authoritative introduction covers every major development in the visual arts since 1900. The informed and informative texts, written by a team of distinguished art historians, are up-to-date in approach whilst remaining intelligible to all, and are supplemented by chronologies and select bibliographies. Anyone seeking a gallery of the masterpieces of 20th-century art, together with deft overview the period, will find no better single volume.
Contents
Preface by David Britt * Impressionism by Bernard Denvir * Symbolism and Art Nouveau by Alastair Mackintosh * Fauvism and Expressionism by Bernard Denvir * Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism by J. M. Nash * Dada and Surrealism by Dawn Ades * Abstract Expressionism by Anthony Everitt * Pop by Simon Wilson * Pluralism since 1960 by Marco Livingstone
