Western Art from the 18th to Mid-20th Century

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

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

A passionate history of painting and sculpture from the 17th century to Cezanne and the moderns. Faure writes like a novelist, which makes this classic a pleasure to read.

Elie Faure

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