Word: skira
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...were to apply the Big Bang theory to art, the explosion could be said to have occurred during World Wars I and II. Avant-gardism-aggressive, impish, savage and wildly varied-still resounds throughout European and American culture. Jean-Luc Daval's Avant-Garde Art 1914-1939, (Skira-Rizzoli; 223 pages; $85) is a sequel to the author's Modern Art 1884-1914: The Decisive Years. The new work's 75 color reproductions and 270 black-and-white pictures have been chosen to illustrate Daval's brisk chronological text. By dividing his subject into 89 bite...