H. H. Arnason’s History of Modern Art is guaranteed to become a bestselling textbook. In terms of the college market, the book has all of the “proper” ingredients: it is generously illustrated with ...
THE quarrel of some ten years ago between realism and idealism is by no means over: the terminology has changed, the field has widened, but the casus belli is really the same. Once it was the fight of ...
1. Introduction -- 2. Later Impressionism -- 3. Symbolist art -- 4. Expressionism -- 5. Cubism -- 6. Abstract and non-objective art -- 7. Dada and surrealism -- 8 ...
A COUNTRY’S art is not an isolated thing; it is the concert of all forces of its spirit. German art as a specific “color” of Western culture materialized in the nascent thirteenth-century Gothic, and ...
The prehistory of modern painting -- Realism, Impressionism, and early photography -- Post-impressionism -- The origins of modern architecture and design -- Art nouveau -- The origins of modern ...