The term `Expressionist’ was initially applied to French modern painting displayed in a Berlin Secession exhibition of 1911. By the time of the First World War; the broader concept of `Expressionism’ permeated German metropolitan culture at many levels. Though lacking stylistic cohesion, the movement was united by a rejection of Impressionism and a search for an inner, essential reality behind the external world of appearances.

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Author: Shulamith Behr, English, Softcover, 80 pages, 24x17cm, ISBN: 1 85437 252 1,
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Futurism, the brainchild in 1909 of Italian writer and cultural impresario F.T. Marinetti, was the defining avant-garde art movement of the early twentieth century. Inspired by the cities, technology, speed and latent violence of the world around them, as well as by the ideas of thinkers such as Bergson and Nietzsche, the Futurists created an

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Author: Richard Humphreys, English, Softcover, 80 Pages, 24x17cm, ISBN: 1 85437 253 X,
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In this thought-provoking publication David Batchelor looks at the varied types of criticism and interpretation to which Minimalism has been subjected over the years. It ends by discussing how Minimalism, which has had a huge influence on subsequent art, continues to inform the work of contemporary artists.

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Author: David Batchelor, English, Softcover, 80 Pages, 24x17cm, ISBN: 1 85437 183 5,
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Charles Harrison looks at Modernist works in order to consider what the defining characteristics of modernism are, also exploring the critical terms in which this art has been represented.

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Author: Charles Harrison, English, Softcover, 80 Pages, 24x17cm, ISBN: 1 85437 254 8,
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Author: David McCarthy, English, Softcover, 80 Pages, 24x17cm, ISBN: 1 85437 304 8,
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Hard on the heels of the Impressionists came artists with a different agenda. Dissatisfied with the essentially short-term effects Impressionism had mastered, they strove in their different ways for an art of a more permanent, structured and expressive kind. By

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Author: Belinda Thomson, English, Softcover, 80 Pages, 24x17cm, ISBN: 1 85437 254 8,
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Perhaps few words have been as overused and misunderstood in recent times as the term `postmodernism’. This book presents a lively, wide-ranging and highly readable exploration of what postmodernism has come to mean in the context of contemporary art.

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Author: Eleanor Heartney, English, Softcover, 80 Pages, 24x17cm, ISBN: 1 85437 305 6,
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Realist art of the twentieth century is striking for its diversity. It has no shared style or manifesto of intention. Yet a common thread in realist art is a commitment to the modern world and to things as they are. This book examines realism in Europe and America, beginning with its roots in the ideas of Gustave Courbet in nineteenth-century France.

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Author: James Malpas, English, Softcover, 80 Pages, 24x17cm, ISBN: 1 85437 186 X,
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Surrealism was one of the most interesting and influential art movements of the twentieth century. A collective adventure begun by a small group of intellectuals in Paris in the early 1920s, amongst them Max Ernst, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali, its influence was felt through the rest of continental Europe and in Britain, the United States, Mexico and Japan.

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Author: Fiona Bradley, English, Softcover, 80 Pages, 24x17cm, ISBN: 1 85437 185 1,
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One of the finest studies ever made on this revolutionary movement, with over 300 illustrations.

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Author: Jennifer Mundy , English, Anthology , Softcover, 349 Pages, 27.3x23.7, ISBN: 1 85437 365 x,
Price: (ZA)R 660.00