With over 400 colour illustrations, this concise and authoritative introduction covers every major development in painting in the last one hundred years. The informed and informative texts, written by a team of distinguished art historians, are accessible to all and are supplemented by chronologies and select bibliographies.
Modern Art brings into sharp focus a century of artistic innovation. The movements covered are Impressionism by Bernard Denvir; Symbolism and Art Nouveau by Alastair Mackintosh; Fauvism and Expressionism by Bernard Denvir; Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism by J. M. Nash; Dada and Surrealism by Dawn Ades; Abstract Expressionism by Anthony Everitt; Pop by Simon Wilson and Pluralism since 1960 by Marco Livingstone. Anyone seeking a gallery of the masterpieces of 20th century art, together with an informed survey of the period, will find no better single volume.

ISBN 0500281262