Icons of Art: The Twentieth Century

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Author: Jurgen Tesch

ISBN-10: 3791329871

ISBN-13: 9783791329871

Category: Artists - Biography

A snazzy new 21st century design for a timeless Prestel classic starting with Rodin and ending with Louise Bourgeois, "Icons of Art: The 20th Century" features full-colour reproductions of nearly one hundred important paintings, sculptures, photographs and multi-media projects and accompanied by brief biographies of the artists, informative essays, anecdotal information and comparative illustrations. A magnificent introduction to modern masterpieces, this information-packed volume offers an...

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Starting with Rodin and ending with Louise Bourgeois, Icons of Art traces artistic developments and trends across North America and Europe in the last century. Full-color reproductions of nearly one hundred important paintings, sculptures, photographs and multi-media projects are accompanied by brief biographies of the artists, informative essays, as well as anecdotal information and comparative illustrations. A magnificent introduction to modern masterpieces, this information-packed volume offers an enlightening chronological perspective on the ever-changing face of art as it highlights the works and figures with whom very art lover should be familiar.

\ \ \ Josef Albers\ 138\ \ \ \ Francis Bacon\ 176\ \ \ \ Giacomo Balla\ 50\ \ \ \ Balthus\ 90\ \ \ \ Georg Baselitz\ 188\ \ \ \ Max Beckmann\ 100\ \ \ \ Joseph Beuys\ 160\ \ \ \ Umberto Boccioni\ 48\ \ \ \ Pierre Bonnard\ 36\ \ \ \ Louise Bourgeois\ 206\ \ \ \ Constantin Brancusi\ 108\ \ \ \ Georges Braque\ 30\ \ \ \ Paul Cezanne\ 24\ \ \ \ Marc Chagall\ 38\ \ \ \ Eduardo Chillida\ 182\ \ \ \ Giorgio de Chirico\ 52\ \ \ \ Christo and Jeanne-Claude\ 202\ \ \ \ Lovis Corinth\ 70\ \ \ \ Salvador Dali\ 98\ \ \ \ Edgar Degas\ 18\ \ \ \ Robert Delaunay\ 32\ \ \ \ Marcel Duchamp\ 54\ \ \ \ James Ensor\ 14\ \ \ \ Max Ernst\ 104\ \ \ \ Lyonel Feininger\ 84\ \ \ \ Dan Flavin\ 174\ \ \ \ Lucio Fontana\ 166\ \ \ \ Lucian Freud\ 178\ \ \ \ Paul Gauguin\ 12\ \ \ \ Alberto Giacometti\ 148\ \ \ \ Vincent van Gogh\ 10\ \ \ \ Arshile Gorky\ 116\ \ \ \ George Grosz\ 74\ \ \ \ Richard Hamilton\ 136\ \ \ \ John Heartfield\ 88\ \ \ \ David Hockney\ 168\ \ \ \ Jenny Holzer\ 194\ \ \ \ Edward Hopper\ 110\ \ \ \ Jasper Johns\ 134\ \ \ \ Frida Kahlo\ 112\ \ \ \ Vassily Kandinsky\ 44\ \ \ \ Anselm Kiefer\ 186\ \ \ \ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner\ 40\ \ \ \ Paul Klee\ 66\ \ \ \ Yves Klein\ 142\ \ \ \ Gustav Klimt\ 22\ \ \ \ Oskar Kokoschka\ 72\ \ \ \ Kathe Kollwitz\ 20\ \ \ \ Willem de Kooning\ 124\ \ \ \ Barbara Kruger\ 196\ \ \ \ Fernand Leger\ 92\ \ \ \ Roy Lichtenstein\ 158\ \ \ \ El Lissitzky\ 62\ \ \ \ Rene Magritte\ 78\ \ \ \ Kasimir Malevich\ 80\ \ \ \ Man Ray\ 68\ \ \ \ Franz Marc\ 42\ \ \ \ Walter De Maria\ 180\ \ \ \ Henri Matisse\ 34\ \ \ \ Matta\ 118\ \ \ \ Joan Miro\ 106\ \ \ \ Amedeo Modigliani\ 56\ \ \ \ Piet Mondrian\ 64\ \ \ \ Claude Monet\ 26\ \ \ \ Henry Moore\ 82\ \ \ \ Robert Motherwell\ 144\ \ \ \ Edvard Munch\ 16\ \ \ \ Bruce Nauman\ 200\ \ \ \ Barnett Newman\ 172\ \ \ \ Georgia O'Keeffe\ 76\ \ \ \ Claes Oldenburg\ 156\ \ \ \ Meret Oppenheim\ 96\ \ \ \ Nam June Paik\ 170\ \ \ \ A.R. Penck\ 190\ \ \ \ Pablo Picasso\ 28\ \ \ \ Pablo Picasso\ 102\ \ \ \ Sigmar Polke\ 164\ \ \ \ Jackson Pollock\ 122\ \ \ \ Arnulf Rainer\ 130\ \ \ \ Robert Rauschenberg\ 128\ \ \ \ Gerhard Richter\ 162\ \ \ \ Diego Rivera\ 114\ \ \ \ Auguste Rodin\ 8\ \ \ \ Mark Rothko\ 126\ \ \ \ Georges Rouault\ 94\ \ \ \ Niki de Saint Phalle\ 184\ \ \ \ Egon Schiele\ 46\ \ \ \ Oskar Schlemmer\ 86\ \ \ \ Kurt Schwitters\ 58\ \ \ \ Cindy Sherman\ 192\ \ \ \ Jesus Rafael Soto\ 198\ \ \ \ Frank Stella\ 146\ \ \ \ Rufino Tamayo\ 120\ \ \ \ Antoni Tapies\ 132\ \ \ \ Vladimir Tatlin\ 60\ \ \ \ Jean Tinguely\ 152\ \ \ \ Cy Twombly\ 150\ \ \ \ Victor Vasarely\ 140\ \ \ \ Jeff Wall\ 204\ \ \ \ Andy Warhol\ 154\ \