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Shows how art was affected by the political and social upheavals of the time.

A survey, illustrated by representative works, of prominent art movements during the 19th century with a discussion of the individual contributions of major artists.

Romantic classicism - Romanticism - Realism - Naturalism - Impressionism - Post-impressionism - Fauvism - Expressionism - Cubism - Futurism - Abstract art - Dada and surrealism - Fauvism - Fauves Daumier_____________

Traces the origins, growth, and development of 20th-century art, discusses its various forms and expressions, and explains how to understand and enjoy modern paintings, sculpture and architecture.

The post impressionist era is often associated with Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat and Cezanne, but it was not limited to these four and the aim of this book is to show the persuasive influence they exercised on a host of other painters in the last 20 years of the 19th century.

Neoclassicism, which flourished between 1750 and 1850, was the most pervasive style in the history of European art. Irwin looks at all its manifestations, its scope and its appeal, from the fine to the utilitarian.

"Through a broad selection of familiar central documents and less well-known ones, the author has focused upon the problems faced by innovators in all realms of thought and action in the middle of the 19th century. This book brings a fresh approach to the struggle, in both art and politics, between the established order and the forces of change."--Cover.

Kenneth Clark discusses thirteen important artists representing one of the greatest periods in the history of art -- the second half of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. During the second half of the eighteenth century, when the spirit of revolution was rising through Europe, a division appeared in all the arts, deeper and more radical than any that had preceded. Rivalry arose between to schools of painting, the Romantic...