Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940 - George Heard Hamilton

"Professor Hamilton traces the orgins and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces in play. The results 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 Munch, Matisse and Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque and Epstein, Mondrian, Dali, Modigliani, Utrillo and Chagall, Klee and Henry Moore and many other artists in a revolutionary age."--BOOK COVER.