Cultural Calendar Of The Twentieth Century

The Story

"The extraordinary pace of events in the twentieth century has been contusing as well as exciting. This is particularly so in the arts, where even the accepted definition of a work of art has often broken down completely, while the numerous styles and "isms" in literature, drama, music, the visual arts, cinema and other disciplines have been invented and discarded in quick succession. This book is a chronology of change: it sets the immense variety of twentieth-century cultural activity, year by year, against the background of world events. It does so not only through a succinct and authoritative narrative, but also by taking each year in turn and presenting a list of the major works in each art form created during that year. This is set against a concurrent general events of political, social or cultural significance. Each year is also individually illustrated, the pictures having been carefully selected so that they evoke the styles and contrasts of the time."--book jacket.

A hardcover edition from 1979 of Cultural Calendar Of The Twentieth Century by Edward Lucie-Smith. It runs to 184 pages, in very good condition. We hold one copy, so once it is gone it is gone. Shelved under Art, Photography & Music. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.