"One way of understanding the relation of the terms 'modern,' 'modernity,' and 'modernism' is that aesthetic modernism is a form of art characteristic of high or actualized late modernity, that is, of that period in which social, economic, and cultural life in the widest sense [was] revolutionized by modernity ... [this means] that modernist art is scarcely thinkable outside the context of the modernized society of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Social modernity is the home of modernist art, even where that art rebels against it." Cahoone 1996, p. 13.
Arnason, H. Harvard. 1998. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. Fourth Edition, rev. by Marla F. Prather, after the third edition, revised by Daniel Wheeler. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN0-8109-3439-6; Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN0-13-183313-8; London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN0-500-23757-3 [Fifth edition, revised by Peter Kalb, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall; London: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN0-13-184069-X]
Atkins, Robert. 1990. Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN1-55859-127-3
Cahoone, Lawrence E. 1996. From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell. ISBN1-55786-603-1
Cogniat, Raymond. 1975. Pissarro. New York: Crown. ISBN0-517-52477-5.
Corinth, Lovis, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Lothar Brauner, Christoph Vitali, and Barbara Butts. 1996. Lovis Corinth. Munich and New York: Prestel. ISBN3-7913-1682-6
Frascina, Francis, and Charles Harrison (eds.) 1982. Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology. Published in association with The Open University. London: Harper and Row, Ltd. Reprinted, London: Paul Chapman Publishing, Ltd.
Frazier, Nancy. 2001. The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Art History. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN0-14-051420-1
Gombrich, E. H. 1958. The Story of Art. London: Phaidon. OCLC220078463
Crouch, Christopher. 2000. Modernism in Art Design and Architecture. New York: St. Martins Press. ISBN0-312-21830-3 (cloth) ISBN0-312-21832-X (pbk)
Dempsey, Amy. 2002. Art in the Modern Era: A Guide to Schools and Movements. New York: Harry A. Abrams. ISBN0-8109-4172-4
Hunter, Sam, John Jacobus, and Daniel Wheeler. 2004. Modern Art. Revised and Updated 3rd Edition. New York: The Vendome Press [Pearson/Prentice Hall]. ISBN0-13-189565-6 (cloth) 0-13-150519-X (pbk)
Kolocotroni, Vassiliki, Jane Goldman, and Olga Taxidou (eds.). 1998. Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN0-226-45073-2 (cloth) ISBN0-226-45074-0 (pbk)
Ozenfant, Amédée. 1952. Foundations of Modern Art. New York: Dover Publications. OCLC536109
Read, Herbert and Benedict. 1975. A Concise History of Modern Painting. Thames and Hudson. ISBN978-0-500-20141-1