An account of the hundred-year history of modern art. Includes many photographs of important modern art works and discusses the careers of modern artists.

A survey of twentieth-century Latin American art, combining essays by seventeen art historians from various countries throughout Mexico, and Central and South America with reproductions of more than 300 works of art.

"Terris and Gorbachev, Magritte and Einstein. Cuneiform tablets and Chicago prisons, lips over Paris and clouds over LA....everywhere he looks, Lawrence Wechsler encounters unlikely alignments and beguiling resonances."