Icons of art : the 20th century / Edited by Jürgen Tesch and Eckhard Hollmann

Includes bibliographical references.

Artists: Josef Albers -- Francis Bacon -- Giacomo Balla -- Balthus -- Max Beckmann -- Louise Bourgeois -- Marc Chagall -- Lovis Corinth -- Lucian Freud -- lames Ensor 14 Max Ernst -- Arshile Gorky -- David Hockney -- Walter De Maria -- Joseph Beuys -- Salvador Dalí -- Bruce Naumnan -- Eduardo Chillida -- Constantin Brancusi -- Sigmar Polke -- Gerhard Richter -- Meret Oppenheim -- Andy Warhol -- Paul Gauguin -- George Grosz -- Lyonel Feininger 84 Dan Flavin -- Georges Braque -- Paul Cézanne -- Giorgio de Chirico -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude -- Edgar Degas -- Robert Delaunay -- Henri Matisse -- Jenny Holzer -- Edward Hopper -- Jasper Johns -- Vassily Kandinsky -- AnselIm Kiefer -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -- Yves Klein -- Gustav Klimt -- Umberto Boccioni -- Piet Mondrian 64 Claude Monet -- Henry Moore -- Willemn de Kooning -- Barbara Kruger -- Fernand Léger -- EI Lissitzky -- René Magritte -- Kasimir Malevich -- Man Ray -- Alberto Giacometti -- Barnett Newman -- Jackson Pollock -- Diego Rivera -- Cindy Sherman -- Jesús Rafael Soto -- Vladimir Tatlin -- Jean Tinguely -- Nam June Paik -- Richard Hamilton -- Oskar Kokoschka -- Matta -- Joan Miró -- A.R. Penck -- Arnulf Rainer -- Pierre Bonnard -- Frank Stella -- Georg Baselitz -- Cy Twombly -- Vincent van Gogh -- Robert Motherwell -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Auguste Rodin -- Mark Rothko -- Niki de Saint Phalle -- Egon Schiele -- Oskar Schlemmer -- Marcel Duchamp -- John Heartfield -- Lucio Fontana -- Käthe Kollwitz -- Roy Lichtenstein -- Frida Kahlo -- Paul Klee -- Amedeo Modigliani -- Ru fho Tamayo -- Franz Marc -- Claes Oldenburg -- Pablo Picasso -- Edvard Munch -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Victor Vasarely -- Georges Rouault -- Kurt Schwitters -- Antoni Tàpies -- Jeff Wall -- Andy Warhol

"A snazzy new 21st century design for a timeless Prestel classic starting with Rodin and ending with Louise Bourgeois, "Icons of Art: The 20th Century" features full-colour reproductions of nearly one hundred important paintings, sculptures, photographs and multi-media projects and accompanied by brief biographies of the artists, informative essays, anecdotal information and comparative illustrations. A magnificent introduction to modern masterpieces, this information-packed volume offers an enlightening chronological perspective on the ever-changing face of art as it highlights the works and figures with whom every art lover should be familiar."