Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-408) and index "Chapters 1-7 first published in Great Britain in Dolphin Modern Movements"-Title page verso 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 The text is accompanied by more than 400 color illustrations of the work of some of the most celebrated figures in art history, comprising an invigorating multiplicity of visual styles. The essays are ordered chronologically, and each thoroughly examines the historical context-political, social, and technological-that shaped the movement under discussion. Eight critical essays by noted art historians shed light on topics from Impressionism to Dada, Art Nouveau to Pop Art.
Modern Art is an authoritative introduction to every important development in the visual arts from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. They needed to show their work and they wanted to sell it.Overview: A superbly illustrated overview of the major movements in the visual arts from Impressionism to Post-Modernism. They all had experienced rejection by the Salon jury in recent years and felt that waiting an entire year between exhibitions was too long. The artists we know today as Impressionists-Claude Monet, August Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley (and several others)-could not afford to wait for France to accept their work. The works exhibited at the Salon were chosen by a jury-which could often be quite arbitrary. For most of the nineteenth century then, the Salon was the only way to exhibit your work (and therefore the only way to establish your reptutation and make a living as an artist). This may not seem like much in an era like ours, when art galleries are everywhere in major cities, but in Paris at this time, there was one official, state-sponsored exhibition-called the Salon-and very few art galleries devoted to the work of living artists.
The group of artists who became known as the Impressionists did something ground-breaking in addition to painting their sketchy, light-filled canvases: they established their own exhibition.
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