In 1967 the critic Germano Celant coined the term Arte Povera to describe the work of Italian artists making use of simple materials to achieve their artistic statements in a reaction against the commercial pressures of the art market in the late 1960s....

One of a series introducing major movements in modern art to general readers, students and gallery visitors, this text looks at the Post-Impressionists and the influential stylistic changes which they introduced. It also sets them in their...

Mass culture, popular taste and kitsch, previously considered outside the limits of fine art, were the inspiration and provocative themes of pop art. This book is intended as an accessible introduction to the pop art movement....