This is the first volume of "Art of the Twentieth Century." When finished the set will comprise five volumes covering art history since 1900, for a broad audience of students and general readers. Aiming for a global, up-to-date, multifaceted approach, this ambitious project has been in preparation for many years and is a joint project of Skira Editore and UniCredit. Editor Valerio Terraroli and a committee of Italian art historians have shaped the work, commissioning themed articles from specialists and interweaving these essays with narrative text, "analysis boxes" that highlight specific subjects, and year-by- year synoptic tables that link historical events with events in science, literature, music, criticism, and art. The carefully chosen, abundant illustrative images (many full page) are integrated with the text and purposefully include a good number that are little known as well as those that are well known. This first volume begins with discussion of aesthetic experimentation and transformation of artistic language at the beginning of the 20th century, and ends with The Dada revolution. A thematic bibliography and an analytical index complete the work. A note to librarians and others regarding the title, subtitle, and "series": Library of Congress cataloging, booksellers, and the publisher have mixed these elements in various ways. Distributed by Rizzoli. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)