Critical theory text by Edward Lucie Smith. Comprehensive essays written on twentieth century art, including architecture, painting, sculpture and photography, grouped into categories by decade. Artists include Alvar Aalto, Vito Acconci, Ansel Adams, Josef Albers, Lawrence Alloway, Benny Andrews, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Diane Arbus, Arman, Hans [Jean] Arp, W. H. Auden, Frank Auerbach, Alice Aycock, Francis Bacon, César Baldaccini, Hugo Ball, Giacomo Balla, Balthus, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Max Beckmann, Peter Behrens, Larry Bell, Hans Bellmer, Emile Bernard, Joseph Beuys, Pierre Bonnard, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Brady, Constantin Brancusi, George Brecht, Isaac Brodsky, Alberto Burri, John Cage, Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Judy Chicago, Chuck Close, Georgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Richard Deacon, Jim Dine, Otto Dix, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jean Fautrier, Dan Flavin, Helen Frankenthaler, Antonio Gaudí, Paul Gauguin, Alberto Giacometti, Gilbert & George, Vincent van Gogh, Arshille Gorky, Hans Haacke, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Frida Kahlo, Vassily Kandinsky, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Gustav Klimt, Willem de Kooning, Jeff Koons, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg, Georgia O'Keeffe, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Frank Popper, Robert Rauschenberg, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Auguste Rodin, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Serra, Andreas Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Robert Smithson, Alfred Stieglitz, Sophie Täuber-Arp, Jean Tinguely, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, James Turrell, Edouard Vuillard, Wols, Frank Lloyd Wright, Andy Warhol, and others. Features 500 illustrations, 150 in full color, as well as bibliography, index, and 11 illustrated timelines.