History of modern art painting, sculpture, architecture, photography - Arnason, H. Harvard; Mansfield, Elizabeth 1965-. (Upper Saddle River, N.J. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010)
The origins of modern art -- The search for truth: early photography, realism, and impressionism -- Post-impressionism -- The origins of modern architecture and design -- Art Nouveau and the beginnings of Expressionism -- The new century: experiments in color and form -- Expressionism in Germany -- Cubism -- Early-twentieth -century architecture -- European responses to Cubism -- Picturing the wasteland: Western Europe during World War I -- Art in France after World War I -- Clarity, certainty, and order: de Stijl and the pursuit of geometric abstraction -- Bauhaus and the teaching of modernism -- Surrealism and its discontents -- American art before World War II -- Abstract Expressionism and the new American sculpture -- Postwar European art -- Nouveau Realisme and pop art -- Playing by the rules: sixties abstraction -- Modernism in architecture at mid-century -- Conceptualism and activist art -- Post-minimalism -- Postmodernism -- Painting through history -- Contemporary art and the renegotiation of modernism -- Contemporary art and globalization
Keywords: Art, Modern -- 20th century; Modernism (Art).; Art, Abstract