50 Modern Artists You Should Know (The 50s Series)

This book features concise portraits of the great artists of Modernism and traces art's fascinating career in a new age. Beginning with the Impressionists and the abstract compositions of Kandinsky, it passes on to great icons of classic Modernism such as Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. It them moves to key names of the mid-20th century such as Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol and more recent artists in the second half of the century such as Anselm Kiefer and Matthew Barney. Informative texts and numerous illustrations round this survey off.