Color Through Art History
24 art movements to color, from prehistoric caves to contemporary galleries.
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The story behind the book
What makes art modern?
Around the middle of the nineteenth century, painters began to turn away from history, myth and religion. Realists such as Gustave Courbet painted ordinary people and everyday life, and that choice alone was seen as radical.
At the same time, photography took over the task of recording what things look like. That freed artists to explore what only painting could do: color, light, emotion and, eventually, pure form. Movement followed movement, from Impressionism and Cubism to De Stijl, the Bauhaus and Pop Art.
Today, artists work with video, code, public space and the environment itself. This book follows that whole story, one movement and one page at a time, so you can see how each new idea grew out of the one before.
