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CLAY, JEAN - Modern Art, 1890-1918

Title: Modern Art, 1890-1918
Description: London: Octopus Books, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. ISBN: 0706408179. Green cloth and gilt, slight mark to lower front board no inscriptions. Heavy item. "The six keys to understanding the art of the period 1890-1918, as identified by Jean Clay and used as the structure of this volume are colour, distortion, the pulverized object, frontality, the real object, and movement. These themes reveal a lively and revolutionary age whose art was dominated by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Robert Delaunay, Paul Klee, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, and Wassily Kandinsky. "; Colour plates and photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 320 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0706408179

Price: GBP 15.00 = appr. US$ 21.42 Seller: Horsham Rare Books
- Book number: 17329

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