Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art, From 1800 to the Present Day
Prometheus Press | 1965 | ISBN: N/A | English | 448 pages | PDF | 111 MB

This magnificent volume covers all the variety facts world art during the modern era. Between the classical repose and precision or the painting of 1800 and the explosive turbulence of art in the mid-twentieth century the break seems complete. For this period of 150 years has seen greater and more violent changes in taste, outlook and way of life than any other in history. John Constable and Jackson Pollock, Ingres and Picasso—the contrast could hardly be more marked. Yet a strong thread runs through the period, and in tracing this thread with all its ramifications this book throws a fresh light on the art of the past as well as on the startling artistic developments of our own day