Restless, protean, fluid, evanescent - despite being hugely challenging to represent visually, water has gained a peculiar significance in the art of the twentieth century. This may be due to the fact that it allows for a range of metaphorical meanings, many of which are particularly appropriate to the modern age. Water and Art probes the ways in which water has gained an unprecedented prominence in modern Eastern and Western art, as well as seeking to illuminate its depiction in earlier periods.