David Vickery
Author
Language
English
Description
Modern begins on a specific day - March 22, 1905 - at a specific place: the Salon des Independents in Paris, where works of art we recognize as modern were first exhibited. Drawing on his forty five-year fine art career, author Philip Hook illuminates how this new art came to be - and how truly shocking it was.
We witness movement upon movement that burst forth in dizzying succession: Fauvism, Expressionism, Primitivism, Symbolism, Cubism, Futurism,...