History Of Modern Art

This edition is an authoritative, encyclopedic history of painting, photography, sculpture & architecture from the mid-19th century, when modern art emerged, to the present.
Preface & Acknowledgments
The prehistory of modern painting
Realism & Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Origins of modern architecture
Art nouveau
The origins of modern sculpture
Fauvism
Expressionism in Germany
Early twentieth-century sculpture
Cubism
The spread of Cubism
Early twentieth-century architecture
From Fantasy to Dada & the New Objectivity
The School of Paris between the wars
Surrealism
The international style in architecture
International abstraction between the wars
American art between the wars
Abstract expressionism & the new American sculpture
Postwar European painting & sculpture
Pop art, assemblage & Europe's new realism
Sixties abstraction
The International Style in Architecture
The Post-minimal Seventies
The Pluralistic Seventies
The Appropriating Eighties
Post-modernism in Architecture
Bibliography
Index
Photo Credits

Author: H. Harvard Arnason

Publisher:  Harry N. Abrams

Released Date: 1986

ISBN: 0810910977