Phaidon 20th-century art

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Naive painting

  • Jakovsky, Anatole
1979
Discusses naive painting as an art form and presents 72 reproductions of the work of 60 representative artists.

Surrealism and dadaism

provocative destruction, the path within, and the exacerbation of the problem of a reconciliation of art and life
  • Oesterreicher-Mollwo, Marianne
1979

Symbolism and art nouveau

sense of impending crisis, refinement of sensibility, and life reborn in beauty
  • Gerhardus, Maly
1979

Cubism and futurism

the evolution of the self-sufficient picture
  • Gerhardus, Maly
1979
Examines the origins and evolution of Cubism and Futurism, with brief biographies of 26 artists and reproductions of 64 paintings.

Expressionism

from artistic commitment to the beginning of a new era
  • Gerhardus, Maly
1979
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