Table of Contents

 1. Modernism, and Its Origins in the 19th Century.


 2. Seurat, Cézanne, and the Language of Structure.


 3. Gauguin, van Gogh, and the Language of Vision.


 4. Art Nouveau in Painting and Design.


 5. Early Modern Sculpture: From Rodin to Brancusi.


 6. Tradition and Innovation in Architecture: 1880-1914.


 7. Expressionism in France: Matisse and the Fauves.


 8. Expressionism in Germany: The Bridge and the Blue Rider.


 9. The Cubist Revolution: Braque and Picasso.


10. From Cubism to Abstract Art: Futurism, Suprematism, De Stijl.


11. Dada and Fantastic Art.


12. Surrealism: The Resolution of Dream and Reality.


13. The Shaping of a New Architecture: 1918-1940.


14. The School of Paris between the Wars.


15. International Abstraction: Constructivism and the Bauhaus.


16. American Art in the Wake of the Armory Show.


17. The New York School: Abstract Expressionism.


18. The Postwar European School: L'Art Informel, Expressionist Figuration, Welded Sculpture.


19. American Art of the Sixties: Pop Art and Minimalism.


20. Europe's New Realism, Pop Art, and Abstraction.


21. The Diffusion of the New Architecture: 1954-1975.


22. The Post-Minimal, Post-Modern Seventies: From Conceptual Art to New Image.


23. The Post-Modern Eighties: From Neo-Expressionism to Neo-Conceptualism.


24. The End of Isms and the Beginning of the New Millennium.


25. Post- and Neo-Modernism in Architecture.


Glossary.


Timelines.


Museum Links and Websites.


Bibliography.


Index.

About the Author

SAM HUNTER is Emeritus Professor of art history at Princeton University, where he taught for twenty-two years. He is also a leading critic of modern and contemporary art, as well as the author of numerous publications, among them Modern French Painting, Modern American Painting and Sculpture, and monographs on Arnaldo Pomodoro, Isamu Noguchi, Marino Marini, Larry Rivers, George Segal, Alex Katz, and Tom Wesselman. An active curator, he has organized more than fifty exhibitions of contemporary art, for which he wrote museum and gallery catalogues. Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Sam Hunter served, successively, as director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, and the Jewish Museum in New York.

JOHN JACOBUS is Professor of Art and Urban Studies at Dartmouth College. Previously he taught at Princeton, the University of California (Berkeley), Smith College, and Indiana University. His publications include 20th-Century Architecture: The Middle Years, books on the architects Philip Johnson and James Stirling, a monograph on Henri Matisse, and, in collaboration with Sam Hunter, American Art of the 20th Century.

DANIEL WHEELER, a longtime editor and translator of art books, is the author of a monograph on the Swiss painter Caspar Wolfe and several landmark publications, including Chateaux of France, The Grand Canal, and Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present. He also prepared the text for the third edition of H. H. Arnason's History of Modern Art.