With over 400 colour illustrations, this authoritative introduction covers every major development in the visual arts from Impressionism to Post-Modernism.Anyone seeking a gallery of the masterpieces of twentieth-century art, together with an.informed survey of the period,will find no better single volume.

Preface

DAVID BRITT

1 Impressionism

 BERNARD DENVIR

2 Symbolism and Art Nouveau

 ALASTAIR MACKINTOSH

3 Fauvism and Expressionism

 BERNARD DENVIR

4 Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism

 J.M. NASH

5 Dada and Surrealism

 DAWN ADES

6 Abstract Expressionism

 ANTHONY EVERITT

7 Pop

 SIMON WILSON

8 Pluralism since i96o

 MARCO LIVINGSTONE

Chronologies and Select Bibliographies

List of Illustrations and Illustration Credits

Index