The origins of modern art
The search for truth: early photography, realism, and impressionism
The origins of modern architecture and design
Art Nouveau and the beginnings of Expressionism
The new century: experiments in color and form
Early-twentieth -century architecture
European responses to Cubism
Picturing the wasteland: Western Europe during World War I
Art in France after World War I
Clarity, certainty, and order: de Stijl and the pursuit of geometric abstraction
Bauhaus and the teaching of modernism
Surrealism and its discontents
American art before World War II
Abstract Expressionism and the new American sculpture
Nouveau Realisme and pop art
Playing by the rules: sixties abstraction
Modernism in architecture at mid-century
Conceptualism and activist art
Contemporary art and the renegotiation of modernism
Contemporary art and globalization.
1. The Sources of Modern Painting
2. Realism, Impressionism, and Early Photography
4. The Origins of Modern Architecture and Design
5. Art Nouveau and the Beginnings of Expressionism
6. The Origins of Modern Sculpture
8. Expressionism in Germany
9. The Figurative Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century Sculpture
11. Futurism, Abstraction in Russia, and de Stijl
12. Early Twentieth-Century Architecture
13. From Fantasy to Dada and the New Objectivity
14. The School of Paris After World War I
16. Modern Architecture Between the Wars
17. International Abstraction Between the Wars
18. American Art Before World War II
19. Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture
21. Pop Art and Europe's New Realism
23. The Second Wave of International Style Architecture
24. The Pluralistic Seventies
25. Postmodernism in Architecture
26. The Retrospective Eighties
27. Resistance and Resolution