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Richly illustrated and clearly focused, this book surveys the genesis, development, and culmination of modern European/American painting, sculpture, architecture, and conceptual art—from Post-Impressionism through the most recent developments in the 1990s. It avoids the typical... read more

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One of the defining characteristics of modern art-an art created mainly in Europe, Russia, and the Americas-is the amount of vigorous debate every aspect of it has forever stirred not least the issue of when such art began, or indeed ended as postmodernists insist it did sometime in the late 1960s.

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  1. Sam Hunter (Author)
 

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