InfoGuides: Art History: Modern Art

Movements, Periods & Artists

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau from ArtArchive
Art Nouveau from Artcyclopedia
Art Nouveau Architecture from Cupola
Art Nouveau from the National Gallery of Art

Artists- for more information on the artists or to find other artists, go to:
- Gustav Klimt - from Wet Canvas
- Louis Comfort Tiffany - Metropolitian Museum of Art, the Morse Museum
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh - from the CRM Society, from Armin Grewe
- Aubrey Beardsley - from Wet Canvas
- Louis Sullivan - from Arch Daily

Early Modern Sculpture

Modern Sculpture from Infoplease.com

Artists- for more information on the artists or to find other artists, go to:
- Auguste Rodin - Musee Rodin, B.Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden
- Edmonia Lewis - Artist Hero, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Aristide Maillol - Musee Maillol
- Ernst Barlach - Tate Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art
- Wilhelm Lehmbruck - Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Androom Archives
- Kathe Kollwitz - Kathe Kollwitz Museum, MoMA
- Pablo Picasso - Picasso.com, Guggenheim
- Jacob Epstein - Rhapsody in Black, UK Government Art Collection, World Art Kiosk
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon - Guggenheim, MoMA

French Expressionism: Fauvism

The Fauves from Steven Sander
Fauvism from Discover France

Artists- for more information on the artists or to find other artists, go to:
- Henri Matisse - The Fauves, Nat. Gal. Art, Musee Matisse
- Raoul Dufy - Raoul Dufy, Tate Gallery
- Maurice de Vlaminck - Tate Gallery

German Expressionism

Expressionism from Allen Memorial Art Museum
Expressionism from Urton Art
Artists of Die Brücke (the Bridge) from MoMA
Brücke Museum

Artists- for more information on the artists or to find other artists, go to:
- Der Blaue Reiter
- - Wassily (Vassily) Kandinsky - CSU East Bay, Mark Hayden Review of Compositions, Guggenheim
  - Paul Klee - CSU East Bay, Guggenheim
  - Franz Marc - Franz Marc Museum, Guggenheim
- Die Brücke
  - Ernst Kirchner - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, from SIU, National Gallery of Art
  - Edvard Munch - The Dance of Life from Roman Jaster, from Munch-museet, from Wet Canvas
  - Emil Nolde - the Art Tribune, MoMA,

Cubism

Cubism from the Guggenheim
Cubism & Spatiality from CSISS
Cubism & Fashion from Brown U.

Artists- for more information on the artists or to find other artists, go to:
- Pablo Picasso - Picasso Biography, Online Picasso Project, ArtAccess
- Georges Braque - Braque Biography, CSU East Bay

Futurism

Futurism from the Guggenheim
Futurism - includes links to translated futurist manifestos

Artists- for more information on the artists or to find other artists, go to:
- Giacomo Balla - Guggenheim, Tate
- Joseph Stella - Whitney
- Umberto Boccioni - Guggenheim, Met Museum, MoMA

Early Modernism in America

Alfred Stieglitz and Early Modern Photography from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Heckscher Museum from menu, choose Exhibitions, Past, Living with Art AND Collections, Highlights
The 1913 Armory Show from the University of Virginia
The Armory Show from L. Larson's thesis
The Ashcan School from Khan Academy
The Eight from Britannica.com

Artists - for more information on the artists or to find other artists, go to:
- Ashcan School - Heilbrun Timeline of Art History essay
- Armory Show - USC, Buffalo

Art between the Wars

De Stijl from Cornell
De Stijl from San Jose State U.
Bauhaus from Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design
Artists- for more information on the artists or to find other artists, go to:
- Purism - Guggenheim
- De Stijl - Guggenheim
- Bauhaus - Guggenheim

Russia: Constructivism

Constructivism from Artlover.com
Constructivism from Daniel Webster U.
Artists- for more information on the artists or to find other artists, go to:
- Constructivism - Northwestern Univ.

American Art 1920 - 1940

American Moderne from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Books on Artists

Kandinsky: the path to abstraction by Shulamith Behr (Contribution by); Bruno Haas (Contribution by)
Call Number: Oversize ND699.K3 A4 2006
ISBN: 1854376772
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
Wassily Kandinsky (18661944) pioneered abstract art and is a key figure in the history of modernism. This groundbreaking, fully illustrated study of Kandinsky's formative years follows his move from figurative painting to abstraction. Inspired in his early years by folklore scenes from Russia and the heightened colors of the landscape of southern Germany, he went on to co-found the Expressionist "Blaue Reiter" (Blue Rider) group of painters with Gabriele M]nter, Alexej Jawlensky, and Franz Marc.
Henri Matisse by John Elderfield
Call Number: Oversize N6853.M33 A4 1992
ISBN: 0810961164
Publication Date: 1992-10-01
Complete overview of the art and career of Henri Matisse through an exhibiton at the Museum of Modern Art.
Georges Braque by Raymond Cogniat
Call Number: Oversize N6853.B7 C6213
ISBN: 0810907038
Publication Date: 1980-03-01
Cezanne and the Dawn of Modern Art by Felix Baumann; Pepe Karmel; Peter Kropmanns; Paul Cezanne
Call Number: Oversize ND553.C33 C4613 2004
ISBN: 377571488X
Publication Date: 2005-02-15
Cezanne and the Dawn of Modern Art presents selected paintings by Paul Cezanne alongside works by younger artists that reveal the powerful influence of the man hailed as the founder of modern painting. The driving forces in the reception of Cezanne's art were not art critics, art historians, or even the artist himself, but rather other artists--primarily the Fauves led by Matisse, de Vlaminck, and Derain; and the Cubists including Picasso, Braque, and Lager--all of whom absorbed and elaborated on Cezanne's revolutionary ideas about color and composition.
Marc Chagall by Jean-Michel Foray; Meret Meyer Graber; Jakov Bruk
Call Number: Oversize N6999.C46 A4 2003
ISBN: 0810946211
Publication Date: 2003-09-01
This beautifully designed volume--the first comprehensive survey of Chagall's work since 1985--organizes the artist's oeuvre into four full-color plate sections, each accompanied by introductory texts and entries on key artworks and themes.
Marcel Duchamp by Caroline Cros; Vivian Rehberg (Translator)
Call Number: N6853.D8 C76 2006
ISBN: 1861892624
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
A revealing account of an artist whose enduring obsession with chance and coincidence shaped both his life and work, 'Marcel Duchamp' illuminates one of the most important and influential figures in all of modern art. Drawing on the artist's own correspondence as well as interviews, Paris-based curator and art critic Caroline Cros explores the creative processes behind Duchamp's works;including his famous anti-sculptures, the "Readymades"; the enigmatic Grand Verre; and the seductive, disturbing Etant Donn's; as well as the often hostile reception he encountered in Paris and around the world.
Cros also examines Duchamp's work after he abandoned his art at the age of thirty-six. Notoriously, Duchamp claimed that he would dedicate the remainder of his life to chess, but here we learn of his ongoing contributions to the art world, including his intense involvement in museums, foundations, and surrealist publications.
M. C. Escher by Doris Schattschneider; M. C. Escher
Call Number: Oversize NC263.E83 S3 2004
ISBN: 0810943085
Publication Date: 2004-05-21
Doris Schattschneider's classic "M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry (1990) is the most penetrating study of Escher's work in existence, and the one most admired by mathematicians and scientists. It deals with one powerful obsession that preoccupied Escher: what he called the regular division of the plane
Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and synchromism by Will South; Stanton Macdonald-Wright; North Carolina Museum of Art Staff (Contribution by); Los Angeles County Museum of Art Staff (Contribution by); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: Oversize N6537.M3124 A4 2001
ISBN: 0882599860
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Exhibition itinerary, North Carolina Museum of Art, 4 March-3 July 2001, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5 August-29 October 2001, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2 December 2001-24 February 2002.
Magritte by Renilde Hammacher (Contribution by); Rene Magritte (Illustrator); Alain Robbe-Grillet (Introduction by); Jean Roudaut (Contribution by); Patrick Roegiers (Contribution by); Daniel Abadie (Contribution by); Jean-Michel Goutier (Contribution by); Bernard No
Call Number: Oversize ND673.M35 A4 2003
ISBN: 1891024663
Publication Date: 2003-03-02
One of the most charming and beloved of the surrealists, Rene Magritte took a light, witty paintbrush and created a world both familiar and not--but always recognizable in our dreams. His plays on semiotics, identity, the idea of woman, the possibilities inherent in objects, and the idea that everything was not necessarily what it seemed--or what it was supposed to be--are celebrated here in an intelligent retrospective monograph, featuring more than 150 paintings, sculptures, objects, and works on paper. This catalogue is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Galerie Nationale duJeu de Paume in Paris.
Picasso by Marilyn McCully (Editor)
Call Number: Oversize N6853.P5 A4 1997
ISBN: 0300071663
Publication Date: 1997-03-27
This book focuses on Picasso's early works, placing them in the context of Picasso's life and the cultural and political currents of his times. The book also presents the latest scientific research into Picasso's methods and materials.