Art of the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Movements, Theories, Schools, and Tendencies

by Loredana Parmesani

The new, updated edition of the Skira best seller on twentieth-century art. This book collects and documents the birth, development, and decline of the twentieth-century artistic movements in Italy and abroad up to the present.

Genres: Art

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 16, 2012

Reviews

[Julia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not too shabby as a quick go-to reference book, but is very unevenly written - sometimes the author explains things in a true "art history for dummies" style, sometimes she reverts to incomprehensible art-critic babble. She also puts way too much emphasis on Italian art, which, in a book focused on European and American art history, should barely get a mention after the 1930s or so.

[Jonathan Roper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Big subject, small book! A nice little easy to explore introduction to the major movements and a bit of fruity theory thrown in to make it a tad more intellectual.