Arnason, Hjorvardur Harvard A History of Modern Art : Painting, Sculpture, Architecture , London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1982.

Illustrated by 1,549 Illustrations, 291 in Colour. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Lge 4to 050023261x Due to heavy weight this book can only be posted to a UK address. No extra postage will be asked for. Dust jacket complete. Green cloth with bright gilt titling and illustration. Name and date on ffep. 1,549 Illustrations, 291 in Colour. 740 pages clean and tight. Established as the most comprehensive presentation of modern art when first published in 1969, A History of Modern Art has been completely revised and expanded to include the exciting developments of the 1970s. In this work, through word and image, the story of art-history-in-themaking is told. It is a magnificent story, reaffirming the past century as one of the great ages of art and architecture. A History of Modern Art reaches back to the first stirrings of a new approach to art. It begins with a thorough account of the influential nineteenth-century academies, romanticism and realism; then, with the impressionists and post-impressionists it provides a detailed analysis of what was accomplished and how this breakthrough prepared the way for subsequent innovations. After this initial revolutionary 'phase, the inventiveness of great talents was unleashed. They developed artistic modes - fauvism, cubism, expressionism, futurism - that demanded new ways of seeing and fresh concepts of the nature, materials, and functions of art. World War I brought this phase to an end, but two new trends had already begun to jolt the public and infuriate the art establishment - dada, which was anti-art and anti-culture, and surrealism, whose bizarre flights of fantasy mined the world of the subconscious. While Picasso, Matisse, Klee, and others followed their established courses, Mondrian and other De Stijl artists, as well as the Bauhaus group, offered a new outlook on art and building and on the interrelation of the arts. The fruitful activity of these artists continued until the approach of World War II. The developments from 1950 up to today constitute the final sections of the book: abstract expressionism, pop and op art, minimal art, colour-field painting, and motion-andlight art. Provocative trends of the late 1960s - sculpture in place, earth works, performance, environmental art - were fully realized in the 1970s, and new trends - photo realism, conceptualism - took root. In architecture, new enterprises included industrial buildings and skyscrapers, airports, houses, museums, college campuses, cultural centres, public buildings, and experiments involving utopian concepts of urban planning with new solutions to age-old problems of space, ecology and energy. (Book ref. 126770)  £21.00

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