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Author Cassou, Jean, 1897-1986.

Title Gateway to the twentieth century ; art and culture in a changing world / Jean Cassou, Emil Langui, Nikolaus Pevsner.

Publication Info. New York : McGraw-Hill, [1962]

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 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  709.03 Q    Check Shelf
Description 362 pages : illustrations, color plates ; 35 cm
Note 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Art, Modern -- 19th century -- History.
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- History.
Added Author Musée national d'art moderne (France)
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