The ideas underlying modern paintig - Matisse and Fauvism - German Expressionism - Cubism - Orphism - Futurism - The Balu Reiter - Towards concrete painting - Magic in the material thing - Pittura Metafísica - Painting between the wars: France - Painting betwwwen wars: Italy - Painting between the wars: Germany - Aspects of paintingin Belgium - Painting in Mexico - Painting in USA_ The painting of the present day.

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"Greatly expanded and revised by the author, the book now has more thna 1000 superb illustrations (double the number in the earlier edition, including 50 full.page color plates) and a text that carefully traces the revolutionary developments and movements of our time. Analyzing the pictures reproduced, and thew artist who painted them. Dr. Haftmann explores Impressionismo, Fauvism, Cubis, the splinter groups tha flourished between the wars, adn the conflicting experiments - ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Po Art- that have rocked the art world in the postwar era and the present. Acclaimed by Art in Amewrica as the "first truly brilliant... analysis of twentieth-century painting", this book now appears for the first time in paperback edition" contraportada