Painting and Sculpture in Europe: 1880-1940

The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series

by George Heard Hamilton

This new edition of 'a book that offers the best available grounding in its huge subject,' as the Sunday Times called it, includes color plates and a revised and expanded bibliography. Professor Hamilton traces the origins and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces in play. The result is an authoritative guide through the forest of artistic labels-Impressionism and Expressionism, Symbolism, Cubism, Constructivism, Surrealism, etc.-and to the achievements of Degas and Cezanne, Ensor and Munch, Matisse and Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque, and Epstein, Mondrian, Dali, Modigliani, Utrillo and Chagall, Klee, Henry Moore, and many other artists in a revolutionary age.

Genres: Art, Art History, History, Nonfiction, France, Modern, School

443 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 1967

Reviews

[Illiterate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Survey of modernist art. 1. Nonrepresentational forms as they appear in consciousness rather than perception. 2. Abstract explorations of form, color, and space.

[Sally N · Rating 4 out of 5]

kind of a crazy book to read but filled in the gaps just the same.
the author was the head of the clark museum for a bit, crazy coincidence seeing as i picked this book up from a secondhand shop for $1

[AC · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is fairly dull, and not worth ploughing through the whole thing - best read as a reference book... on particular artists and/or movements. It covers a wide range of them, each getting a brief section, so its treatment is generally a bit superficial -- and the author's comments are oftentimes fairly subjective, and yet still quite academic -- a bad combination.

[Miryam]

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