Painting and sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940

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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 Xlupch, Matisse and Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque and Epstein, Mondrian, Dali, Modigliani, Utrillo and Chagall, Klee, Henry Moore and many other artists in a revolutionary age. Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Later Impressionism Edgar Degas Auguste Renoir Claude Monet Paul Cezanne Georges Seurat and Neo-Impressionism James McNeill Whistler and Impressionism in England Auguste Rodin Medardo Rosso 3. Symbolist Art Gustave Moreau Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Odilon Redon Paul Gauguin Vincent van Gogh The School of Pont-Aven and the Nabis Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec James Ensor Edvard Munch Ferdinand Hodler Art Nouveau and Jugendstil Symbolist Art in Russia: The Slavic Revival and Mir Iskusstva Symbolist Art in Spain: The Early Work of Pablo Picasso English Symbolists: Burne-Jones, Beardsley, Augustus John Symbolist Sculpture Aristide Maillol 4. Expressionism The Fauves (1900-10): Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck Georges Rouault Modern German Art Wilhelm Lehmbruck Ernst Barlach Kathe Kollwitz Paula Modersohn-Becker Emil Nolde Die Briicke (The Bridge): 1905-14 Kandinsky in Munich: 1896-1914 Franz Marc and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider): 1910-16 Henri Rousseau, ‘le Douanier’, and the Naive Painters Post-Impressionist and Fauve Influences in British Painting 5. Cubism Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso: 1906-20 Juan Gris Fernand Leger Cubism as a Movement: 1910-14 Orphic Cubism: 1909-14 Purism: 1918-25 Cubist Sculpture Henri Laurens Alexander Archipenko Ossip Zadkine Raymond Duchamp-Villon Jacques Lipchitz Futurism: 1909-16 Vorticism: 1913-20 6. Abstract and Non-Objective Art Abstract and Non-objective Art in Russia: 1904-22 Larionov, Goncharova, and Rayonism Malevich and Suprematism Constructivism El Lissitzky De Stijl in The Netherlands: 1917-32 Theo van Doesburg Piet Mondrian The Bauhaus and Abstract Art in Germany Lyonel Feininger Oskar Schlemmer Kandinsky at the Bauhaus: 1922-33 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Josef Albers and Max Bill Willi Baumeister The Abstract Film: Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter Abstract Art in France Later Constructivist Sculpture: Pevsner and Gabo Abstract Art in England 7. Dada and Surrealism Dada in Zurich: 1916-21 Dada in New York: 1913-21 Dada in Berlin and Cologne: 1918-20 Dada in Hanover : Kurt Schwitters Dada in Paris: 1919-22 From Dada to Surrealism: Andre Breton Giorgio de Chirico and the Scuola Metafisica: 1913-19 The Surrealist Image Max Ernst Yves Tanguy Salvador Dali Rene Magritte and Paul Delvaux Abstract Surrealism: Andre Masson and Joan Miro The Surrealist Object Alberto Giacometti The Surrealist Movement in England 8. The School of Paris: 1920-1940 Amedeo Modigliani Chaim Soutine Jules Pascin Maurice Utrillo Marc Chagall Neo-Romanticism: Berman, Tchelitchew, and Balthus The Later Work of Matisse The Later Work of Braque The Later Work of Picasso Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp Julio Gonzalez 9. Other Schools and Masters Art in Germany: 1920-40 George Grosz and Otto Dix Carl Hofer and Max Beckmann German Sculpture: 1920-40 ‘Entartete Kunst’ (Degenerate Art) Austrian Expressionism: Richard Gerstl and Egon Schiele Oscar Kokoschka Paul Klee Painting in Belgium and Holland: 1900-40 Painting and Sculpture in Italy : 1920-40 Stanley Spencer and Henry Moore Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index