[32] l. (incl. 15 col. plates), xxiv, 576 p. : 700 ill., photos., ports. ; 26 cm.Contents: Pt. I. The Nineteenth Century in France. Revolution ; Romanticism ; Ingres ; Realism ; The Salon at Mid-Century ; Manet ; Impressionism. -- Pt. II. The Nineteenth Century Outside of France. Outside France, 1800-1850 ; Outside France, 1850-1900. -- Pt. III. Transition. Post-Impressionism: Its Classicists ; Post-Impressionism: Its Romantics. -- Pt. IV. The Twentieth Century. Fauvism and Expressionism ; Cubism and Abstract Art ; Reactions Against Abstraction. -- Appendix: Notes on Modern Architecture. -- Index.

Mainstreams of Modern Art

Arts & Photography

Canaday, John

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Simon&Schuster

(Art Theory classes as a pre-requisite to Art History in the early 1980's. If you want an overload to understanding the essence of fine art, this is the book)

What is Art? An Introduction to Painting, Sculpture And Architecture

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

John Canaday analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after the Second World War, including Niels Bohr’s "The Quantum Postulate"; the Blegdamsvej Faust, a parody of Goethe’s Faust that cast physicists as its principle characters; The Los Alamos Primer, the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientists’ descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard’s post-war novella, The Voice of the Dolphins.

The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs (Science and Literature)

History & Criticism

University of Wisconsin Press

"Physicists in the first half of this century became caught up in knowledge, ways of doing science, military projects, and social consequences that pushed their means of representation and understanding to the limit. John Canaday's important study reveals

The Lives of Painters Vol. 2- Baroque Painters : An Authoritative survey of the Great Western Painters from Caravaggio to Goya

Baroque Painters (The Lives of Painters II)

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Canaday, John, Lives Of The Painters, The: Vol 2

The Lives of the Painters, Volume 2 (Baroque)

Biographical and critical essays on more than 450 individual painters, covering the development of painting from the close of the Middle Ages in Italy, when Giotto revolutionized the art of painting in the great frescoes in the Arema Chapel in Padua, down through Cezanne and his revolution in painting. A history of Western painting and its artists.

The lives of the painters

Thames&Hudson

Bernice Abbott - Sixty Years of Photography

O'Neal, Hank

Photography & Video

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

Masterpieces by Michelangelo

Crown, Publishers

Masterpieces By Michelangelo

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. 1979

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Books by Canaday, John

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Mainstreams of Modern Art

What is Art? An Introduction to Painting, Sculpture And Architecture

The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs (Science and Literature)

The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs (Science and Literature)

Baroque Painters (The Lives of Painters II)

The Lives of the Painters, Volume 2 (Baroque)

The lives of the painters

Bernice Abbott - Sixty Years of Photography

Masterpieces by Michelangelo

Masterpieces By Michelangelo