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Gateway to the twentieth century ; art and culture in a changing world

Author: Jean Cassou; Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, [1962]
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jean Cassou; Musée national d'art moderne (France)
OCLC Number: 976044
Notes: Based on the exhibition held at the Musée d'art moderne in Paris, from November 9, 1960 to January 23, 1961, and called Les sources du XXe siècle, les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914.
Description: 362 p. : ill., col. plates ; 35 cm.
Contents: pt.1. The climate of thought / Jean Cassou --
pt.2. The visual arts / Emile Langui: Symbolism --
The Nabis --
Apollo or Dionysus --
The first Apollonian stream (Seurat; Futurism) --
The second Apollonian stream (Cubism, from Cezanne to Picasso; from Picasso to Mondrian) --
The Dionysian stream (its founders; Fauves; Die Brucke; Der Blaue Reiter; Independent expressionists; Metaphysical art; The beginnings of Dada) --
pt.3. Architecture and applied arts / Nikolaus Pevsner.
Responsibility: Jean Cassou, Emil Langui, Nikolaus Pevsner.

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