Art of the Twentieth Century

In a new exclusive slipcase, the prestigious four-volume series covering the fundamental events and pivotal works of international art in the twentieth century.

This series offers a complete, up-to-date survey of the artistic culture of the twentieth century through an original, transversal and interdisciplinary analysis. This special edition of the series gathers the four volumes into an exclusive slipcase showcasing a 3D reproduction of a masterpiece by James Rosenquist. The books provide an extraordinary repertory of images and a vast source of information, enriched through “focus on” windows and technical information by experts in the field. The essays investigate and analyse in chronological order the transformations of the world’s artistic culture, the major personalities and the different movements that have characterized the development of modern and contemporary art. Roughly 1700 pages and a considerable number of illustrations provide a broad and composite overview of movements, artists, works and cultural phenomena, in an extraordinary publication that examines in depth the tendencies of modern and contemporary art.

• Ample space is devoted to the critical definitions of contemporary art, the art market and the new way of collecting, to the relationship between art and politics, and to the new, confusing frontiers of photography.
• Major chapters are followed, in alphabetical order, by the biographies of artists accompanied by their most significant works.

Valerio Terraroli teaches History of Modern Art at the University of Verona.

Volume 1: 1900-1919  The Avant-garde Movements
Volume 2: 1920-1945  The Artistic Culture between the Wars
Volume 3: 1946-1968  The Birth of Contemporary Art
Volume 4: 1969-1999  Neo-avant-gardes, Postmodern and Global Art