Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars - Francis Haskell, Briony Fer, David Batchelor, Paul Wood - Google Books

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This is the third in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. The books seek to explain the most important issues confronting any study of modern art, without attempting exhaustive…