This text tells the story of modern Scottish painting and sculpture. It sets out the claim of artists like Macintosh and Fergusson to be partners, not followers in the early modern movement. It traces the impact of the ideas of the Scots Renaissance on the work of painters such as William Godstone, the evolution of a distinct Edinburgh School with Sir William Gillies, Anne Redpath and Sir Robin Philipson. It also details the important place that artists from Scotland such as Joan Eardley, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and Alan Davie played in the post-war period in Britain. It examines the achievement of Ian Hamilton Finlay, the revolutionary impact of John Bellany's work and finally artists such as Steven Campbell, Ken Currie and others who have marked a new flowering of Scottish art in the 1980s and 1990s.

This new edition brings the story right up to date and includes a number of talented young artists who have emerged in the last few years. It follows the success of the author's Scottish Art 1460-2000, which was awarded the Saltire Society/Scotsman Prize for Scottish Book of the Year in 1990 and was described as 'definitive' by Maria Vaizey in the Sunday Times. Scottish Art in the 20th Century won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award when first published."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes paintings and sculpture which have shaped the course of art in the 20th century.