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Styles, Schools and Movements: the Essential Encyclopaedic Guide To Modern art
[Paperback - 2011]
amy dempsey
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Category: Art
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Publisher: Thames & Hudson Uk | ISBN: 9780500288443 | Pages: 312
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Styles, Schools and Movements is the bestselling guide to the major modern developments in Western painting, sculpture, architecture and design. This new edition includes three new chapters on Art Photography, Destination Art and Design Art as well as thorough updates and revisions throughout. A foldout timeline shows at a glance how the evolution of art corresponds with historical events, providing a thorough overview of the whole period. Listings of major international collections and carefully selected 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.

Table of Contents

1860–1900: Rise of the Avant Gardes • 1900–1918: Modernisms for a Modern World • 1918–1945: The Search for a New Order • 1945–1960: A New Disorder 1960–2000: Beyond the Avant Gardes • 200 Key Styles: A Dictionary

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 written for various London museums, including Tate, and is the author of Styles, Schools && Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art, Destination Art, and Modern Art: Art Essentials.

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