This new edition of 'a book that offers the best available grounding in its huge subject,' as the Sunday Times
called it, includes color plates and a revised and expanded bibliography. Professor Hamilton traces the origins
and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces
in play. The result is an authoritative guide through the forest of artistic labels-Impressionism and Expressionism,
Symbolism, Cubism, Constructivism, Surrealism, etc.-and to the achievements of Degas and Cezanne, Ensor and Munch,
Matisse and Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque, and Epstein, Mondrian, Dali, Modigliani, Utrillo and Chagall, Klee, Henry
Moore, and many other artists in a revolutionary age.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Later Impressionism
Edgar Degas
Auguste Renoir
Claude Monet
Paul Cezanne
Georges Seurat and Neo-Impressionism
James McNeill Whistler and Impressionism in England
Auguste Rodin
Medardo Rosso
3. Symbolist Art
Gustave Moreau
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Odilon Redon
Paul Gauguin
Vincent van Gogh
The School of Pont-Aven and the Nabis
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
James Ensor
Edvard Munch
Ferdinand Hodler
Art Nouveau and Jugendstil
Symbolist Art in Russia: The Slavic Revival and Mir Iskusstva
Symbolist Art in Spain: The Early Work of Pablo Picasso
English Symbolists: Burne-Jones, Beardsley, Augustus John
Symbolist Sculpture
Aristide Maillol
4. Expressionism
The Fauves (1900-10): Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck
Georges Rouault
Modern German Art
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Ernst Barlach
Kathe Kollwitz
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Emil Nolde
Die Brucke (The Bridge): 1905-14
Kandinsky in Munich: 1896-1914
Franz Marc and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider): 1910-16
Henri Rousseau, 'le Douanier', and the Naive Painters
Post-Impressionist and Fauve Influences in British Painting
5. Cubism
Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso: 1906-20
Juan Gris
Fernand Leger
Cubism as a Movement: 1910-14
Orphic Cubism: 1909-14
Purism: 1918-25
Cubist Sculpture
Henri Laurens
Alexander Archipenko
Ossip Zadkine
Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Jacques Lipchitz
Futurism: 1909-16
Vorticism: 1913-20
6. Abstract and Non-Objective Art
Abstract and Non-objective Art in Russia: 1904-22
Larionov, Goncharova, and Rayonism
Malevich and Suprematism
Constructivism
El Lissitzky
De Stijl in The Netherlands: 1917-32
Theo van Doesburg
Piet Mondrian
The Bauhaus and Abstract Art in Germany
Lyonel Feininger
Oskar Schlemmer
Kandinsky at the Bauhaus: 1922-33
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Josef Albers and Max Bill
Willi Baumeister
The Abstract Film: Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter
Abstract Art in France
Later Constructivist Sculpture: Pevsner and Gabo
Abstract Art in England
7. Dada and Surrealism
Dada in Zurich: 1916-21
Dada in New York: 1913-21
Dada in Berlin and Cologne: 1918-20
Dada in Hanover: Kurt Schwitters
Dada in Paris: 1919-22
From Dada to Surrealism: Andre Breton
Giorgio de Chirico and the Scuola Metafisica: 1913-19
The Surrealist Image
Max Ernst
Yves Tanguy
Salvador Dali
Rene Magritte and Paul Delvaux
Abstract Surrealism: Andre Masson and Joan Miro
The Surrealist Object
Alberto Giacometti
The Surrealist Movement in England
8. The School of Paris: 1920-40
Amedeo Modigliani
Chaim Soutine
Jules Pascin
Maurice Utrillo
Marc Chagall
Neo-Romanticism: Berman, Tchelitchew, and Balthus
The Later Work of Matisse
The Later Work of Braque
The Later Work of Picasso
Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp
Julio Gonzalez
9. Other Schools and Masters
Art in Germany: 1920-40
George Grosz and Otto Dix
Carl Hofer and Max Beckmann
German Sculpture: 1920-40
'Entartete Kunst' (Degenerate Art)
Austrian Expressionism: Richard Gerstl and Egon Schiele
Oscar Kokoschka
Paul Klee
Painting in Belgium and Holland: 1900-40
Painting and Sculpture in Italy: 1920-40
Stanley Spencer and Henry Moore
