H. Harvard Arnason Libri

History of Modern Art has long been recognized as the authoritative, encyclopedic history of painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture from the mid-19th century, when modern art emerged, to the present day. Revising author Marla F. Prather's contributions to the new Fourth Edition include: -- More biographical information about each artist. -- An entirely new chapter on Cubism. -- A lively sense of social and historical context. -- Coverage of work in nontraditional mediums. such as video, installation, and performance art. -- More than 30% new illustrations and text and nearly twice the number of color illustration as in previous editions. -- A culturally diverse selection of artists and a much broader selection of works by women. -- Chronological reorganization of the text, an updated bibliography, and a complete index.

Revised with more biographical information on each artist, this fourth edition is an authoritative, encyclopedic history of painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture from the mid-19th century, when modern art emerged, to the present day. 1,438 illustrations, 504 in color.

Completely revised, this book has been expanded to cover the important developments in recent art, architecture and photography. There is an increased focus on all modern art media, including photography, performance art, installation art, collaboration, video and mixed-media works.