History of Art: Modern Art

What the possessions of eighteenth-century French artists reveal about their lives and work, from paintboxes to wigs. An original, beautifully illustrated study from the Getty Research Institute.

Katie Scott & Hannah Williams

A concise course text from Rococo and Neoclassicism to Impressionism, Cubism and Abstract Expressionism. Ideal for an overview of how modern art took shape.

Katherine Taylor

Written in 1914 by a collector who saw the avant-garde arrive in America, with dozens of color plates. A first-hand account of how Cubism shocked the world.

Arthur Jerome Eddy

Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism, movement by movement. Nearly 700 pages on the decades that reinvented art.

Smarthistory

Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptual Art explained through their key works. The natural next step after the early modernist movements.

Smarthistory