Lives of the great modern artists / Edward Lucie-Smith.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 2009.Edition: Rev. and expanded edDescription: 368 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cmISBN:- 0500600376 (pbk.)
- 9780500600375 (pbk.)
- 9780500281918
- 0500281912
- 709.04 LUC
- cat 20091112 rsb
- sr YBP 20091029
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This text presents some of the most engaging life stories of our time. Edward Lucie-Smith vividly evokes the lives of some of the great artists of the last 100 years or so, from Picasso and Duchamp to Joseph Beuys and Louise Bourgeois, guiding the reader through the maze of different styles and movements with authority and verve.
First published in 1999 as: Lives of the great 20th-century artists.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-364) and index.
Towards the modern -- Fauves -- Nabis -- Cubism -- Futurism -- German expressionism -- Vienna sezession -- Ecole de Paris -- Russians -- Dada -- Metaphysical painting -- Surrealism -- Bauhaus -- New objectivity -- Mexicans -- America between the wars -- England between the wars -- Abstract expressionism -- Post-war Europe -- Heirs of abstract expressionism -- American neo-dada -- British pop art -- American pop art -- Artist not the artwork -- Four women artists.
cat 20091112 rsb UPB
sr YBP 20091029 UPB