A concise history of modern painting / Read, Herbert Edward

History of modern painting beginning with Cezanne, through Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada, to Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s.

Describes origins and effects of modern painting from Cezanne through Abstract Expressionism; also discusses work of recent artists such as Frank Stella, Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg.