Painting and Sculpture in Europe: 1880-1940, 3rd Edition

by George Heard Hamilton

Book Overview

Traces the origins and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces in play. The result is a guide through the forest of artistic labels - Impressionism and Expressionism, Symbolism, Cubism, Constructivism, Surrealism and others. This book also traces the achievements of Degas and Cezanne, Ensor and Munch, Matisse and Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque and Epstein, Mondrian, Dali, Modigliani,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300053223
• ISBN13: 9780300053227
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 610 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Looking for a nice overview?

If one reads this book in hopes of getting a fairly complete overview of art of the early Twentieth Century, they will not be disappointed. However, if one is looking for something more in depth, with various examples of an artists oevure, then perhaps they should keep looking. One of this book's greatest virtues as an overview is that it does not assume a great deal of knowledge of art on the part of the reader and is relatively engaging. However, images are few and far between and not always of the best quality, which I find to be an integral part of an art historical publication.