S. A. MANSBACH

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 384 pp. 384 ills.; 48 colorplates, 6 maps. $65

Modern Art in Eastern Europe is the only study of its kind in any language, and it is the only recent survey of modernism in a number of the countries it treats. [1] In most cases, the next-best books are decades old, and written in the countries' own languages. (Soon there will be several new books on twentieth-century Hungarian art, for example; but as I write this ...