Styles,Schools and Movements : The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art.

Dempsey, Amy:

ISBN 10: 0500288445 / ISBN 13: 9780500288443

Published by Thames and Hudson, 2010., 2010

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312 pages with 272 illustrations (165 in colour) Good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1300.

Seller Inventory # 39294

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Styles,Schools and Movements : The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art.
• Publisher: Thames and Hudson, 2010.
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500288445
• ISBN 13: 9780500288443
• Binding: 4° paperback.
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Weight: 1300 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kunstgeschichte

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Synopsis

An expanded edition of this indispensable guide to modern art from Impressionism to the present.

Art in the modern era has come to be defined by its styles, schools, and movements. The more than three hundred collected here provide an essential introduction to the major developments in Western painting, sculpture, architecture, and design during one of the most dynamic and exciting periods in art history.

More than one hundred main entries are presented in broadly chronological order, from Impressionism and Cubism to Sound Art, Internet Art, and Art Photography in the twenty-first century. Two hundred supplementary entries provide fully cross-referenced summaries of additional styles and movements, tracing patterns of influence and development. A timeline shows at a glance how the evolution of art corresponds with historical events, providing a thorough overview of the period.

Listings of major international collections and suggestions for further reading are given for all the main entries, and the comprehensive index features over 1,000 artists, architects, designers, impresarios, critics, collectors, and champions of modern art, linking the styles, schools, and movements with the people who made them happen. 165 color and 107 black-and-white illustrations

About the Author

Amy Dempsey is an art historian who studied under Rosalind Krauss at Hunter College in New York and received her doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Dempsey has contributed to a number of museum catalogs and is the author of Styles, Schools and Movements and two other titles in the Art Essentials series, Modern Art and Surrealism.