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The guide begins with Paris during the nineteenth century, when notions like art for art’s sake and artists similar to Manet, Monet, Gaugin, Van Gogh, Seurat, and Cezanne fired the primary pictures of modernism. It continues by recounting the major movements—Cubism, Dada, the Bauhaus, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art—that impacted the previous one hundred years of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Using generous illustrations and approachable language, the book tells the story of a revolutionary era that reworked our serious about the world and art’s place in it. Now in its seventh edition, History of Modern Art has been repeatedly updated …