Modern Art

About this book

Richly illustrated and clearly focused this book surveys the genesis development and culmination of modern European/American painting sculpture architecture and conceptual artfrom Post-Impressionism through the most recent developments in the 1990s. It avoids the typical encyclopedic approach of surveys in favor of examining selected but highly representative works in greater depth and from an enlarged spectrum of critical discourse. Organized along chronological lines topics explore the ideas forms events artists and workswith each chapter devoted to a style movement or decadefrom Czanne Seurat Gauguin and Van Gogh through Minimalism and the general reaction known as Post-Modernism. Ideal for readers with a general interest in art.