Modern: Genius, Madness, and One Tumultuous Decade That Changed Art Forever

A revelatory, fast-paced account of the most exciting, frenzied, and revolutionary decade in art history-1905 to the dawn of World War I in 1914-and the avant-garde artists who indelibly changed our visual landscape

Modern begins on a specific day-March 22, 1905-at a specific place: the Salon des Indépendants 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 ...