The story of modern art Sheldon Cheney

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Viking Press; [1958]Edition: Rev. and enl. mid-century edDescription: 723 p. illus. 25 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • N 6490 CHE
LOC classification:
  • N6490 .C52 1958
Contents:
End of an era: David and the classicists -- The challenge of the romantics -and Goya -- Three strange Englishmen -- Escape from Paris; Corot and the Barbizon brothers -- Daumier, a giant of modernism, lives and dies neglected -- Triumph of the realists of Paris -- A Parisian American arranges art musically, in England -- The impressionist interlude, and Renoir -- The genius of revolution: Cezanne -- First of the modern savages: Gauguin -- Van Gogh, the mad Dutchman -- Seurat, Degas, and the bohemians of Montmartre -- The school of Paris: Fauves and modern primitives -- The Germans and the Americans -- Art obscured among the 'isms -- Triumph and decline of the school of Paris -- Resurgence and eclipse in Germany; progress in England -- New life in the Americas: Mexico -- From "American scene" to abstract modern -- The new world of abstract art -and other worlds -- Appendix: Modern sculpture.
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End of an era: David and the classicists -- The challenge of the romantics -and Goya -- Three strange Englishmen -- Escape from Paris; Corot and the Barbizon brothers -- Daumier, a giant of modernism, lives and dies neglected -- Triumph of the realists of Paris -- A Parisian American arranges art musically, in England -- The impressionist interlude, and Renoir -- The genius of revolution: Cezanne -- First of the modern savages: Gauguin -- Van Gogh, the mad Dutchman -- Seurat, Degas, and the bohemians of Montmartre -- The school of Paris: Fauves and modern primitives -- The Germans and the Americans -- Art obscured among the 'isms -- Triumph and decline of the school of Paris -- Resurgence and eclipse in Germany; progress in England -- New life in the Americas: Mexico -- From "American scene" to abstract modern -- The new world of abstract art -and other worlds -- Appendix: Modern sculpture.

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