Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-391) and index.

Introduction. 1. Before 1900. The Social and Intellectual Background. The Industrial Background. The Romantic Movement. Karl Marx and The Communist Manifesto. Charles Baudelaire and “The Painter of Modern Life.” Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. The Symbolist Movement. ArchitectureTechnical Innovation. Responses to New Social Needs. Louis Sullivan. Art Nouveau and the Search for Aesthetic Unity. Victor Horta and Antonio Gaudí. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Edwin Lutyens.Painting.The New Exhibiting Societies. The Great Forerunners. Vincent van Gogh. Paul Gauguin and the Cult of the Primitive. Gauguin in the South Seas. Paul Cézanne. Edvard Munch. The Nabis. Henri de Toulouse-Loutrec. Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.Sculpture.Auguste Rodin. Medardo Rosso. The Position of Women Artists. Photography.The Birth of the Snapshot Camera. Photography as a Profession. Documentary Photography. Pictorialist Photography. The Importance of the “Amateur” Photographer. Subject-Matter and Pictorialist Photography. Keyworks: Georges Seurat: La Grande Jatte. Augusste Rodin: The Gates of Hell. 2. 1900-1909.Technological Advances. International Tensions. ArchitectureArchitecture in the United States. The Greene Brothers and Bernard Maybeck. The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Architecture in Europe. Otto Wagner. Josef Hoffman. Peter Behrens and AEG.PaintingPainting in Europe. The Survival of Art Nouveau: Gustav Klimt. Picasso: The Blue Period. Henri Rousseau, called Le Douanier. The Fauves. Henri Matisse. Cubism. Paula Modershn-Becker. Die Brücke. The Russian Avant-grade. Painting in the United States. The Ashcan School.Sculpture.The Painter-Sculptors and Maillol.PhotographyPictorialism. Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession. Alternatives to Pictorialism. Keyworks: Peter Behrens: The Turbine Factory. Pablo Picasso: La Vie. 3. 1910-1919.Architecture.Architecture in the United States. Rannk Loyd Wright and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Architecture in Europe. Alfred Loos and Peter Behrens.Painting.The Invention of College. Synthetic Cubism: Juan Gris. Minor Cubists. Orphism: Robert Delaunnay. Sonia Delaunay-Terk. Der Blaue Reiter. Franz Marc. Gabrielle Münter Kandinsky and the Birth of Abstraction. Futurism. Futurism and Photography. The Russian Avant-grade: Gubo-Futurism. Malevich and Suprematism. Constructivism. DeStijl. Piet Mondrian's Early Work. The War Years. Dada: Marcel Duchamp. Zurich and the Cabaret Vultaire. Berlin Dada. Pittura Metafysica. Painting in the United States. The Armory Show.Sculpture:Cubist and Futurist Sculpture. Constantin Brancusi and Amedeo Modigliani.Photography.The Reaction against Pictorialism.Keyworks: Vassily Kandinsky: Composition IV. Marcel Duchamp: Fountain. 4. 1920-1929.Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Weimar Republic.Architecture.Architecture in Europe. The Netherlands: JJP Oud. Germany: The Bauhaus Architects. France: Le Corbusier. Architecture in the United States. Painting.Painting in Europe. The Artists of the Côte d'Azur. The Classical Revival. Italy: The Rise of Fascism. The Netherlands: Piet Mondrian and NeoPlasticism. The Soviet Union: developments in Constructivism. Germany: The Bauhaus. Germany: The Neue Sachlichkeit. Germany: Max Beckmann. Germany: Kurt Schwitters. Painting in the United States. Pecisionism. Stuart Davis and American Cubism. Painting in Latin America. Brazil: Tarsila do Amaral. Modernism in Argentina. The Beginnings of Mexican Muralism. The Birth of the Surrealist Movement. Max Ernst. René Magritte and Joan Miró. Tge /ecike de Oarus, Chaim Soutine. Marie Laurencin and Tamara de Lempicka.Sculpture.Sculpture in Europe. Classicism and Decorative Cubism. Naum Gabo. Käthe Kollwitz and Ernst Barlach.Photography.Experimental Techniques. The Alienated Eye. Documentary Photography.Keyworks: Walter Gropius: The Bauhaus. Georgia O'Keeffe: The Shelton with Sunspots. 5. 1930-1939.Architecture in Europe.Architecture in Europe. Italy. The Soviet Union. Germany. Alvar Alto and the Scandinavian tradition. Architecture in the United States. Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s.Painting.“Realist” Painting. Painting and National Socialism. Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union. Mexican Muralism. Regionalism in the United States. Urban and Social Realism in the United States. Edward Hopper. Balthus. Yannis Tsarouchis. Non-Realist Painting: Surrealism and Abstraction. Salvador Dali and Veristic Surrealism. Picasso's Guernica. Surrealism versus Geometric Abstraction.Sculpture.Developments in Sculpture. Picasso and Julio Gonzalex. The Early Work of Alberto Giacometti. Jean Arp. Henry Morre and Barbara Hepworth. Alexander Calder.Photography.A Change of Climate. The American Depression and the Spanish. Civil War. Henri Cartier-Bresson. John Hertfield and Hans Bellmer.Keyworks: José Clemente Orozcó: Murals in the Hospicio Cabañas. Pablo Picasso: Guernica. 6. 1940-1949.Architecture.A Change of Climate. Architecture in the United States. Architecture in Europe. Architecture in Latin America. Painting.Painting in the Americas. Matta and Wifredo Lam. Arshile Gorky. Adolph Gottlieb. Jackson Pollock and Clyford Still. Painting in France. Francis Gruber. Jean Fautrier. Jean Dubuffet. Wols. Expressionism in Northern Eruope. D> The Cobra Group. Painting in Great Britain. Stanley Spencer. Graham Sutherland and Francis Bacon. Painting Latin America. Joaquin Torres-Garcia. The Madi Group in Buenos Aires. Mexico: Rufino Tamayo and Frida Kahlo.Sulpture.Sculpture in the United States. Isamu Noguchi. Sculpture in Europe. Alberto Giacometti and Germaine Richier. Marino Marini and Giacomo Manzúu.Photography.Photography and the War. Weegee in New York. Visionary Photographers.Keyworks: Arshile Gorky: Garden in Soci. Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait. 7. 1950-1959.Existentialism.Architecture.The Dominance of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. Le Carbusier at Chandigarh. the Chapel of Nôtre-Dame du Haut. Bruce Goff and the Bavinger House. Eero Saarinen and Jorn Utzon. The New Brutalism. Japan and Mexico.Painting.Painting in the United States. The Developement of Abstract Expressionism: Mark Rothko. Robert Motherwell. Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell. Han Hofmann and Willem de Kooning. Barnett Newman. Morris Louis. Jasper Johns and Rober Rauschenberg. Larry Rivers and Grace Hartigan. Bay Area Figuration. Painting in Europe. Modernist Old Masters. “Art Autre” Against “Art Autre”: Nicolas de Staël and Maria Elena Vieira da Silva. Figuarative Painting in Great Britain. The Gutai Group in Japan.Sculpture.Sculpture in the United States. David Smith and John Chamberlain. Louise Nevelson. Sculputre in Europe. Eduardo Chillida and César. Eduardo Paolozzi and Elisabeth Frink.Photography.“The Family of Man.” Robert Frank.Keyworks: Franz Kline: Mahoning. David Smith: Tank Totem V. 8. 1960-1969.Architecture.Archigram. Robert Venturi and James Stirling. Louis Kahn and the Kimbell Museum.Painting.Pop Art in Great Britain. Richard Hamilton. Peter Blake and David Hockney. R.B. Kitaj. American Pop Painting. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Pop in California. The hairy Who. Pop Painting in Continental Europe. Pop Painting in Latin America. Other American Painting. Photorealism. Minimal Abstraction: Frank Stella. Robert Ryman and Agner Marti. Optical Painting. Joseph albers. Bridget Riley. The Revival of Figurative Painting in Europe. Georg Baselitz. Frank Auerbach. Other Movements of the Sixties. Expressionism in Latin America. Argentina and “Otra Figuraction.” “New Realism” in France and Yves Klein. Piero Manzoni.Sculpture, Conceptual Art, and Performance.Assemblage. anthony Caro. Minimal Sculpture. Earth Art. Conceptual Art: Joseph Kosuth. Kinetic Art. Dan Flavin. Anti-Form. The Pop Object. George Segal. Funk Art: Edward Kienholz. Christo's and Jeanne-Claude's Wrapped Building. Happenings and Actions. The Direct Action Group. Fluxus.Photography.A Change of Climate. Eliot Porter. Subjectivity in the Streets. Diane Arbus. The Manipulated Image.Keyworks: Roy Lichtenstein: Whaam! Donald Judd: Untitled 1967. 9. 1970-1979.Architecture.Populism, Classicism, and Nationalism. Italy and Spain. A Return to the Vernacular: Belgium, Great Britain, and France. “High-Tech” Architecture. Postmodern Classicism in Europe. Postmodern Classicism in the United States. The Early Work of Frank Gehry. SITE and Deconstruction. The General Situation of the Visual Arts Avant-garde. The Challenge to Traditional Forms. The Influence of International Exhibitions. The Craft Rivival. Painting.Lucian Freud. Alice Neel. Susan Rothenberg. Anselm Kiefer. Philip Guston. African-American Art. The New Mural Movement in the United States. Sculpture, Environments, and Performance.Vita Acconci and Dennis Oppenheim. Joseph Beuys. Bruce Nauman. Hans Haacke. The Art of Light and Space. Imaginary Archaeology. Arte Povera. Conceptual Art in Argentina. British Sculpture. Super Realis Sculpture. Feminist Art. Magdalena Abakanowicz. Video and Nam June Paik.Photography.Bernd and Hiller Becher. William Eggleston. Robert Mapplethorpe.Keyworks: Richard Rogers and Renzo Paino: Pompidou Center. Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party. 10. 1980-1989.Architecture.An Expansive Climate. “Les Grands Projets.” Jean nouvel's Institut du Monde Arabe. Michael Graves. Quinlan Terry. Arata Isozaki. Modernist Mannerism. Deconstruction: Further Developments. Maya Ling Lin.Painting. The Revival of Painting.The Italian Trans-Avantgarde. Painting in the United States. American “Bad” Painting. Elizabeth Murray and Jennifer Barlett. Paula Rego. Other American Painters. Neo-Geo. The New Classicism. Painting in Europe.British Figurative Painting. the Art of “Perestroika.” France: Jean Rustin.Sculpture.British Sculpture. Richard Deacon. Anish Kapoor. Antony Gormley. Gilbert and George. American Sculpture. Jeff Koons. Martin Puryear. Environmental and Conceptual Art. Robert Gober. Sculpture in the Soviet Union. Photography.Cindy Sherman. Joel-Peter Witkin.Keyworks: Arata Isozaki: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Jean Rustin: Woman Putting Her Hand in a Man's Mouth. 11. 1990-1995.Architecture.The Groninger Museum. Zaha Hadid.Painting.Appropriation. Gay Art. New Painting in China. New African Painting. Australian Aboriginal Art. Modern Maori Painting.Sculpture, Environmental Works, and Video.Louise Bourgeois. Rebecca Horn. Artist' Video. Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread. Karen Finley. Orlan. Yukinori Yanagi and Wenda Gu.Photography.Andres Serrano.Conclusion.Keyworks: Yu Youhan: Aao and Blonde Girl Analyzed. Damien Hirst: The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Notes.Bibliography.Index.

Visual Arts in the Twentieth Century offers an exciting new account of the century of art so affected by Modernism. A uniquely structured view of the period and the inclusion of often-overlooked material come together to create a survey that is thorough, insightful, and fresh. Painting, sculpture, photography, the graphic arts, and architecture are treated in decade-by-decade chapters, allowing for an inclusive view of coexisting innovations and trends. Information on. Historical, social, and intellectual movements and events is incorporated within the text, giving insight into the cultural environment that stimulated, surrounded, and supported individual acts of creativity. The work of artists from historically underrepresented regions of the world is also included, providing new insight into the global world of art. Edward Lucie-Smith has also given us the first book of its kind that emphasizes photography - an art form both. Accessible and cutting-edge. In addition, the author re-evaluates Modernism by examining the diverse and important roles women have played in this still-influential movement. Finally, more than twenty "Key Work" analyses appear throughout the book. Critical and interpretive, these concise examinations concentrate on individual works of art and provide models by which other works may be approached and evaluated - a valuable touchstone for those who want to enjoy and. Understand modern art on their own.