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No other book on modern and contemporary art presents in as authoritative and concise a manner the ideas that underlie the diverse and radical developments of the last hundred years. In this new edition, an imprortant essay, 'Postmodernism and the Art of Identity', not only brings the story of modern art right up to the present, but also introduces the unexpected development of returning to art the day-to-day meaning it may have lost, through engagement with issued raised in the representation of gender, sexuality and AIDS. In other essays by some of the most internationally acclaimed writers on art, the extraordinary challenges of twentieth-century art art introduced and discusssed with unparalleled lucidity, intelligence and factual accuracy. 'A useful and mercifully jargon-free introduction to a very complex subject' (Richard Cork).
