The third edition of Modern Art, now revised and expanded, narrates one of the great stories of our time - how European and American vanguard culture created modernist art by heeding the call "to make it new." Modern Art captures the sense of intellectual and aesthetic ferment through the close integration of its authoritative text and nearly nine hundred well-chosen illustrations. Right up through the present day, coverage ranges across a broad spectrum of visual arts, from painting, sculpture, and photography to conceptual forms, installation and video art, and architecture.
John Maxwell "Jake" Jacobus Jr. (15 September 1927 – 10 July 2017) was a Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. He was a specialist in modern art and architecture and particularly the art of Henri Matisse.
Blarg. Sometimes this book has a lot of interesting things to say, which kept me reading. A lot of the time they're just blandly listing off as many artists as possible. This is a very frustrating book, because it could have been really good if the authors had just focused in a bit more.