The present book aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive yet concise presentation of the main trends, experiments, movements, and reflections that permeate the field of visual arts in the European continent, from the late 18th century to the mid-20th century.

It includes seventeen chapters corresponding to specific historical periods and cultural events and aims to analyze the dynamics and peculiarities in the nature of movements such as Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism and its evolution into more autonomous expressive positions, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Russian Avant-Garde and Constructivism, Dada, De Stijl, Bauhaus, New Objectivity, and Surrealism.

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