This instructive and exciting book shows how modern art reflects an entire culture: a dying culture. Dr. Rookmaaker describes the various steps and decisive moments that took place and led to the modern movement. But these steps did not happen outside of society in general; rather, they had to do with a whole way of looking at the world, especially the values and presuppositions of the Enlightenment, of the Age of Reason, which has made our culture what it is today.
