Description
Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the Salon by organizing their own independent exhibitions.
After this first assault on the artistic establishment, there was no holding back. In a constant desire to challenge, innovate, and inspire, one modernist style supplanted the next: Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, abstract art, renewed Realism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimal and conceptual practice.
This indispensable overview traces the restless energy of modern art with a year-by-year succession of the groundbreaking artworks that shook standards and broke down barriers. Introductory essays outline the most significant and influential movements alongside explanatory texts for each major work and its artist.
About the series
Bibliotheca Universalis -- Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
Author: Hans Werner Holzwarth
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 03/02/2016
Pages: 696
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.46lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.70w x 1.70d
ISBN13: 9783836555395
ISBN10: 3836555395
BISAC Categories:
- Art | History | Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
- Architecture | History | Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
- Art | History | Contemporary (1945- )
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