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History of modern art : painting, sculpture, architecture, photography

"Arnason's History of Modern Art remains the definitive source of information on the art of the modern era from Modernism's mid-nineteenth-century European beginnings to today's divergent art trends. Now full color throughout, this Fifth Edition contains new headings, subheadings, and a glossary to help the reader navigate the material and quickly identify areas of interest. The entire text has been carefully edited for greater clarity, narrative coherence, and scholarly currency."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2003, ©2004
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2003, ©2004
History
xv, 832 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
9780131840690, 9780131841055, 013184069X, 013184105X
1001873663
1. The Sources of Modern Painting
2. Realism, Impressionism, and Early Photography
3. Post-Impressionism
4. The Origins of Modern Architecture and Design
5. Art Nouveau and the Beginnings of Expressionism
6. The Origins of Modern Sculpture
7. Fauvism
8. Expressionism in Germany
9. The Figurative Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century Sculpture
10. Cubism
11. Futurism, Abstraction in Russia, and de Stijl
12. Early Twentieth-Century Architecture
13. From Fantasy to Dada and the New Objectivity
14. The School of Paris After World War I
15. Surrealism
16. Modern Architecture Between the Wars
17. International Abstraction Between the Wars
18. American Art Before World War II
19. Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture
20. Postwar European Art
21. Pop Art and Europe's New Realism
22. Sixties Abstraction
23. The Second Wave of International Style Architecture
24. The Pluralistic Seventies
25. Postmodernism in Architecture
26. The Retrospective Eighties
27. Resistance and Resolution