Part of the publisher's Basic genre series. Includes a chronology and biographical information about the artists, as well as many color reproductions.

Art of painting autonomous symbols -- 1910s. Pablo Picasso -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Robert Delaunay -- Franz Marc -- Kasimir Malevich -- Hans Arp --1920s. El Lissitzky -- Theo Van Doesburg -- Kurt Schwitters -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Sophie Taeuber-Arp -- Paul Klee -- Piet Mondrian -- 1930s-1940s. Wladyslaw Strzeminski -- Piet Mondrian -- Jackson Pollock -- 1950s. Wols -- K.O. Götz -- Robert Motherwell -- Georges mathieu -- Ernst Wilhelm Nay -- Antoni Táááàpies -- Hans Hartung -- Mark Rothko -- Pierre Soulages -- Ad Reinhardt -- Karel Appel --- Frank Stella -- Emilio Vedova -- 1960s. Franz Kline -- Willem De Kooning -- Emil Schumacher -- Helen Frankenthaler -- Barnett Newman.