A Concise History of Modern PaintingComprehensive, authoritative, highly readable and generously illustrated, Herbert Read's text has been rightly acknowledged as "by far the best introduction to the subject" (Alan Bowness) and "throughout, lively and closely packed" (Hugh Casson). Here is modern painting from its roots in the work of Cezanne, through Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada in the early decades of the twentieth century and on to Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. The works of Frank Stella, Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, amongst many others, are discussed and analyzed by Caroline Tisdall and William Feaver in a lively final chapter that brings us up to present times and points to exciting new developments. |
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Page 52
... Expressionism has certain elements which are common to French Fauvism , and these have a common source , not only in the Jugendstil - Art Nouveau mannerisms already mentioned , but also in the more personal characteristics of van Gogh ...
... Expressionism has certain elements which are common to French Fauvism , and these have a common source , not only in the Jugendstil - Art Nouveau mannerisms already mentioned , but also in the more personal characteristics of van Gogh ...
Page 56
... Expressionism of our own time . Edvard Munch and James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ) , Ferdinand Hodler and Vincent van Gogh are all driven by this restless energy to depict ' a spectrally heightened and distorted actuality ' . That is what ...
... Expressionism of our own time . Edvard Munch and James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ) , Ferdinand Hodler and Vincent van Gogh are all driven by this restless energy to depict ' a spectrally heightened and distorted actuality ' . That is what ...
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... Expressionism , which Kandinsky formulated , is a theory of universal application : it relates to human psychology in general and not to the characteristics of any particular race . The work of art , Kandinsky says , is the outward ...
... Expressionism , which Kandinsky formulated , is a theory of universal application : it relates to human psychology in general and not to the characteristics of any particular race . The work of art , Kandinsky says , is the outward ...
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