MODERN PAINTING Great Artists Past & Present ~ In COLOR

Modern Painting
Historical Conspectus Of The Great Schools Of Painting And The Chief Art Movements, Past And Present 

text by
Maurice Raynal

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Published by World Publishing Company, Cleveland OH 1960 Edition. Having 343 indexed pages, illustrated with 200 large full color plates, reproducing the works on numerous famous artists. Bound in cloth 10 by 13.75 inch hard covers, still in original dust jacket showing light edge wear and tear, also in original slip case (not shown) otherwise binding still internally tight and strong, contents clean and bright, and overall in very good condition.

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(text taken from dust jacket...)

For the writing of this book an author was called for who had actively shared in the ventures and discoveries of the men who have made art history since the beginning of the 20th century. For over fifty years, from 1900 to his recent death, Maurice Raynal was a close personal friend of the greatest modern painters; from the very start he championed Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger and many others. No one was better qualified than he for conducting this journey through a recent past so rich in great achievement that all contemporary art has been shaped by it and all future art will stand indebted to it.

A RELIABLE GUIDE A comprehensive, chronological lay-out presenting the most significant works in their historical sequence year by year. This is more than an art book; it is like a machine for traveling in time. One of its innovations, the use of folded pages, enables the reader to see, without any interruption in the text describing an art movement, what other artists were doing at the same time in other fields when it was in full activity. By comparing pictures made at the same date, we resuscitate the life of painting, year by eventful year, during seven momentous decades of art history. Thus the various stages in the evolution of modern art are clearly indicated; how, indeed, can we better understand the circumstances giving rise to the Fauve and Cubist movements than by seeing those very works by Van Gogh and Cezanne which the young Fauves and Cubists-to-be saw some fifty years ago? In this volume, and in its wholly original presentation of the subject, we give the reader more than just another art book; rather a Proustian "remembrance of things past."
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