"Daniel Wheeler, revising author, third edition."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 806-828) and index.

The prehistory of modern painting -- Realism, Impressionism, and early photography -- Post-impressionism -- The origins of modern architecture and design -- Art nouveau -- The origins of modern sculpture -- Fauvism -- Expressionism in Germany -- The figurative tradition in early twentieth-century sculpture -- Cubism -- Towards abstraction -- Early twentieth-century architecture -- From fantasy to Dada and the new objectivity -- The school of Paris between the wars -- Surrealism -- Modern architecture between the wars -- International abstraction between the wars -- American art before World War II -- Abstract Expressionism and the new American sculpture -- Postwar European art -- Pop art and Europe's new realism -- Sixties abstraction -- The second wave of international style architecture -- The pluralistic seventies -- The retrospective eighties -- Postmodernism in architecture -- Epilogue.