In this first-hand account, the author, closely associated with the radical and transforming movement from its earliest days, records and traces Dada's history from its inception around 1916, in wartime Zurich, to its collapse in the Paris of the 1920s.

Traces the history of the German school of art, the Bauhaus, and examines the activities of its teachers and students.

The story of art nouveau, from its inception in the 1890s to the modern resurgence of interest. It introduces the main personalities, such as Galle, Lalique and Tiffany, and relates their aims and accomplishments to the background from which the movement emerged.

An extensively revised and updated edition of this valuable account of contemporary art. It covers and illustrates all international trends and artists in the postwar era, including Neo-Expressionist tendencies, Post-Pop Blues, New Classicism, and art based on feminist and gay issues.

Explains how abstract art originated and evolved, discusses major abstract artists and movements, and looks at the current revival of abstract painting.