Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in

The Unknown Masterpiece is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. Young Nicolas Poussin is an aspiring artist who pays visit to Porbus in his studio. He is joined

"The future vision of a soon-to-be emancipated 19th century Negress."--Prelim. leaf.

The author traces the development of art in the twentieth century by examining more than 250 representative works of art.

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. His writing articu