ABSTRACT

A survey of modern art from the Impressionists to the present, with a new chapter on the art of the seventies and eighties, and corrections and revisions in the text.

chapter |29 pages

The Secret Revolution

chapter |27 pages

The Emancipation of Color

chapter |28 pages

History as Nightmare

chapter |29 pages

Reality Reassembled

chapter |31 pages

The Cosmopolitan Eye

chapter |35 pages

An Alternative Art

chapter |30 pages

The Dominion of the Dream

chapter |36 pages

A World Remodeled

chapter |33 pages

A Lost Leadership

chapter |38 pages

America Redefined

chapter |33 pages

The Great Divide 1950–70

chapter |44 pages

How Good is Modern Art?

chapter |42 pages

A Slight Case of Gridlock