Modernism (Art)

The decade leading up to the First World War was the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art. This was the crucible of Modernism, when Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and Abstract Art all developed in quick succession. There were phenomenal new innovations in avan...

An illustrated critical history which explores the developments of 20th-century art and looks at the different academic methods and theories that have evolved in an effort to explain them.

This volume considers David Hockney's work from 1960 to the early 1990s. It reveals the major phases in Hockney's oeuvre, his early years as a student at the Royal College of Art in London, his ironic experimentation with different styles of painting, his images of life in southern California, hi...

Alex Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the modern period. He examines the work of writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics and composers, some well known and some almost forgotten.