Modern Painting - Simon Morley (World of Art series) performance creating a new community of

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Modern Painting - Simon Morley (World of Art series) performance creating a new community ofWhile acknowledging the legacy of Herbert Reads classic 1959 study A Concise History of Modern Painting in the World of Art series, academic and artist Simon Morley places the foundation of modern art much earlier than Read, at the emergence of Romanticism and the dawn of the industrial age. Structured loosely chronologically by period, the focus is as much on individual artists as well as movements, with works discussed within a broader context