The
main concepts and development of art from about 1900 to the present
are analyzed in authoritative essays by some of the most distinguished
art historians and critics in Britain and the United States. With
Edward Lucie-Smith on Pop Art, Suzi Gablik on Minimal Art, Norbert
Lynton on Expressionism, and Sarah Whitfield on Fauvism, to name a
few, these scholarly essays illuminate each particular artistic movement
of the century, and together form an entire history of modern art.
"An explanation
of the genesis of the seventeen 'isms' . . . a splendid vade-mecum."
— Lady Vaizey, Art and Artists
The
main concepts and development of art from about 1900 to the present
are analyzed in authoritative essays by some of the most distinguished
art historians and critics in Britain and the United States. With
Edward Lucie-Smith on Pop Art, Suzi Gablik on Minimal Art, Norbert
Lynton on Expressionism, and Sarah Whitfield on Fauvism, to name a
few, these scholarly essays illuminate each particular artistic movement
of the century, and together form an entire history of modern art.