Russel John. The Meanings of Modern Art. Volume 01.The Secret Revolution

New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1974. — 56 p. — ISBN: 0-87070-477-XLesson One. A survey of modern art from the Impressionists to the present, with a new chapter on the art of the seventies and eighties.
When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying thing that life has to offer.