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Arnason, H. H., and Daniel Wheeler. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Photography. Prentice, 1998. Comprehensive and handsome.

Chilvers, Ian. Oxford Dictionary of 20th-Century Art. Oxford University Press, 1998. This work covers major movements and styles, from cubism to pop and performance art.

Chipp, Herschel B. Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists. University of California Press, Reprint New York University Press, 1968. 1998. Essential reading.

Eisenman, Stephen. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. Thames & Hudson, 1994. A revisionist, "new historical" approach to the beginnings of modern art.

Golding, John. Visions of the Modern. University of California Press, 1994. Highly readable set of essays by a noted painter and teacher.

Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New: The Life and Death of Modern Art. McGraw Hill, 1991. A leading critic's provocative, personal essays on avant-garde art; originally based on a BBC series.

Hunter, Sam, and John Jacobus. Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. Rev. 3rd ed. Abrams, 2000. Introduction to masterpieces, styles, techniques.

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art Today. Phaidon, 1995, 1999. Guide to developments in contemporary art from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Lynton, Norbert. The Story of Modern Art. Cornell University Press, Phaidon, 1980. 1997. Thoughtful linking of artists, social attitudes.

Mansbach, S. A. Cambridge University Press, 1999. A survey of painting, graphic arts, and sculpture organized by country.

Riemschneider, Burkhard, ed. Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Taschen, 2000. Offers a broad overview of the international art scene at the turn of the 21st century.

Robertson, Jack. Twentieth-Century Artists on Art: An Index to Writings, Statements, and Interviews by Artists, Architects, and Designers. G.K. Hall, 1996. Documents by the creators themselves.

Walther, Ingo F., and Karl Ruhrberg, eds. Art of the Twentieth Century. Taschen, 1998. Covers more than 780 artists of the last century.

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