Comprehensive,
authoritative, highly readable and generously illustrated, Herbert
Read's text has been rightly acknowledged as "by far the best introduction
to the subject" (Alan Bowness) and "throughout, lively and closely
packed" (Hugh Casson). Here is modern painting from its roots in the
work of Cézanne, through Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada
in the early decades of the twentieth century and on to Abstract Expressionism
in the 1950s. The works of Frank Stella, Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol
and Robert Rauschenberg, amongst many others, are discussed and analyzed
by Caroline Tisdall and William Feaver in a lively final chapter that
brings us up to present times and points to exciting new developments.
Comprehensive,
authoritative, highly readable and generously illustrated, Herbert
Read's text has been rightly acknowledged as "by far the best introduction
to the subject" (Alan Bowness) and "throughout, lively and closely
packed" (Hugh Casson). Here is modern painting from its roots in the
work of Cézanne, through Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada
in the early decades of the twentieth century and on to Abstract Expressionism
in the 1950s. The works of Frank Stella, Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol
and Robert Rauschenberg, amongst many others, are discussed and analyzed
by Caroline Tisdall and William Feaver in a lively final chapter that
brings us up to present times and points to exciting new developments.