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History of Modern Art has long been recognized as the authoritative, encyclopedic history of painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture from the mid-19th century, when modern art emerged, to the present day. Revising author Marla F. Prather's contributions to the new Fourth Edition include:
-- More biographical information about each artist.
-- An entirely new chapter on Cubism.
-- A lively sense of social and historical context.
-- Coverage of work in nontraditional mediums. such as video, installation, and performance art.
-- More than 30% new illustrations and text and nearly twice the number of color illustration as in previous editions.
-- A culturally diverse selection of artists and a much broader selection of works by women.
-- Chronological reorganization of the text, an updated bibliography, and a complete index. [via]