Modern Art: Impressionism to Post-Modernism

by David Britt

Book Overview

Modern Art is an authoritative introduction to every important development in the visual arts from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. Eight critical essays by noted art historians shed light on topics from Impressionism to Dada, Art Nouveau to Pop Art. The essays are ordered chronologically, and each thoroughly examines the historical context--political, social, and technological--that shaped the movement under discussion. The text is accompanied by more than 400 color illustrations of the work of some of the most celebrated figures in art history, comprising an invigorating multiplicity of visual styles. Anyone seeking a gallery of the masterpieces of twentieth-century art, together with an informed survey of the period, will find no better single volume.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500238413
• ISBN13: 9780500238417
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.0" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Modern Art!

I just purchased this book, it looks wonderful. It has the quality of a textbook, but it does not read like a textbook. that is to say it does not drone on and on, it reads well for those who have an interest in modern art. I cover all the periods of modern art and gives concise background to the artists and events of the perod in which the mode of art occurred.I highly reccomend this book.