The Challenge of the Avant-garde Paul Wood

Series:
Open University: Art and Its Histories
Format:
Paperback
Publication date:
01 Jun 1999
ISBN:
9780300077629
Dimensions:
288 pages: 257 x 195 x 17mm
Illustrations:
60 colour plates & 120 b&w illustrations

This volume traces the challenge posed to the academic canon by the emergent avant-garde of the early and mid-19th century. It considers the shifts in its development through the later 19th and 20th century and its eventual incorporation as a form of modern canon by the eve of World War II.