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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... Gauguin , van Gogh , Munch , Seurat , and Toulouse - Lautrec were active and created their most characteristic work between 1880 and 1900 , and diverse as they are , there is yet a common element which they all unconsciously betray . It ...
... Gauguin , van Gogh , Munch , Seurat , and Toulouse - Lautrec were active and created their most characteristic work between 1880 and 1900 , and diverse as they are , there is yet a common element which they all unconsciously betray . It ...
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... Gauguin adopted these or other features of Oriental art for a somewhat different purpose . He appreciated the expressive value of large areas of pure colour no less than van Gogh . But he had also studied medieval art ( sculpture ...
... Gauguin adopted these or other features of Oriental art for a somewhat different purpose . He appreciated the expressive value of large areas of pure colour no less than van Gogh . But he had also studied medieval art ( sculpture ...
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... Gauguin . In so far as an exotic element enters into German Expressionism , and it is particularly evident in the work of Emil Nolde ( 1867-1956 ) , and to a lesser extent in the work of Paula Modersohn - Becker , Otto Mueller ( 1874 ...
... Gauguin . In so far as an exotic element enters into German Expressionism , and it is particularly evident in the work of Emil Nolde ( 1867-1956 ) , and to a lesser extent in the work of Paula Modersohn - Becker , Otto Mueller ( 1874 ...
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