中文简介：

在1880年代，西方艺术中的表现、意义和过程的本质受到了深刻的质疑。人们将对外部世界的合理描述抛在一边，转而支持以不同程度的非自然主义表达，从对现实的适度歪曲到纯粹的抽象。

1880年到1914年**次世界大战爆发的几十年间，是一个充满着对艺术的质疑、探索、冒险，同时也充斥着创新与活力的时期。本书集中于这一巨大的动荡时期，将探讨绘画和雕塑之间的建设性对话，以及那个时代的三位艺术巨匠保罗·塞尚、保罗·高更和文森特·梵高在整个欧洲艺术中发挥的影响作用。本书在承认巴黎作为文化之都的中心地位的同时，还将独特地突出欧洲其他的艺术发酵中心，从布鲁塞尔和巴塞罗那，到柏林和维也纳，并追踪20世纪初进入现代主义的各种途径。

本书图文并茂，包含四篇文章、城市介绍和艺术家传记。

英文简介：

Through the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-naturalism expressed in varying degrees, from modest distortions of reality to pure abstraction.

The decades that followed, up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation. Concentrating on this period of great upheaval, this book will explore the constructive dialogue between painting and sculpture, and the influential roles played by three giants of the era, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, across European art as a whole. While acknowledging the centrality of Paris as a cultural capital, it will also uniquely highlight other centres of artistic ferment in Europe, from Brussels and Barcelona to Berlin and Vienna, and track the variety of routes into modernism in the early twentieth century.

This fully illustrated catalogue will contain four essays, introductions to each city of ferment and biographies of the artists.