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.

A study of the surrealist movement which traces its development and examines the work and thoughts of its major artists.

Italian Futurism proclaimed the bankruptcy of an artistic culture that clung to the forms and values of the past. The movement was launched in 1909 and a group of spectacular talents set out to revolutionize human culture. It was a young man's movement, eventually overtaken by war and Fascism.

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

This illustrated introductory survey traces the origins and development of these two revolutionary twentieth century art movements. It explores the full range of media used, including film, photography, collage, painting, graphics and object making. Aimed at undergraduate and A level students as well as the general reader.

This comprehensive survey traces the history of realist painting and argues that realism has had a continuous yet restlessly changing place in American and European painting throughout the 20th century. Artists discussed include Eakins and Bellows through to Lucian Freud, and David Hockney.