Book review: A 360-degree view of the artists and their journey

25 Modernists Artists by Joseph Agiusedited by Patrick Galeapublished by Kite Group, 2022 

The end of the 19th century was to bring in its wake a large capitalist expansion of unprecedented proportions. European states were continuing their overseas colonisation while America was slowly growing to become a leading political and economic power.

Industrialisation and developments in commercial transportation and communications were also bringing about significant growth in world trade and a shifting of the economic balance. As might be expected, the arts were responding with varying speed to these developments.

Architecture was coming to terms with the use of iron and steel in the building of office blocks, with exhibition complexes and railway stations functioning as bastions of capitalism signalling the start of the 20th century.

The invention of photography had in the meantime revolutionised art, with an ability to capture momentary events as had never been seen by the human eye.

A spread of the book in the chapter dedicated to Giorgio Preca.

Painting and sculpture were eventually to react by exploiting what photography had to offer and compete with it by developing to new...