ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundredyears later, painting and sculpture would be only options, notprerequisites? The term "art" has been defined and redefined so many timesover the last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social, political,and technological meanings. Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, includingphotography and new media, and thematically chaptered to highlightrelationships between works and movements, this readable and encyclopaedicmasterwork does just what it says on the cover. Whether you want Surrealismor Land Art, Fluxus or Bauhaus, this is your be-all, end-all guide to artof the 20th century. An undertaking as immensely ambitious as this one deserves to be owned byeveryone, which is why we decided to make a special, more compact editionof this two-volume classic in celebration of our 25th anniversary.