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Description

1. 314 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 28 cm.

Subject

1. Art, Modern > 20th century > Encyclopedias
2. Art, Modern > 19th century > Encyclopedias
3. Art movements > History > 19th century > Encyclopedias
4. Art movements > History > 20th century > Encyclopedias

Contents

1. 1860-1900: rise of the Avant-Gardes: Impressionism -- Arts and crafts -- Chicago School -- Les Vingt -- Neo-impressionism -- Decadent movement -- Art nouveau -- Modernisme -- Symbolism -- Post-impressionism -- Cloisonnism -- Nabis -- Synthetism -- Salon de la Rose+Croix -- Jugendstil -- Vienna secession -- World of Art -- 1900-1918: modernisms for a modern world: Fauvism -- Expressionism -- Die Brücke -- Ashcan School -- Deutscher Werkbund -- Cubism -- Futurism -- Jack of Diamonds -- Der Blaue Reiter -- Synchromism -- Orphism -- Rayonism -- Suprematism -- Constructivism -- Pittura Metafisica -- Vorticism -- Hungarian Activism -- School of Amsterdam -- Dada -- Purism -- De Stijl -- 1918-1945: search for a new order: Arbeitsrat für Kunst -- Novembergruppe -- Bauhaus -- Precisionism -- Art Deco -- Ecole de Paris -- International Style -- Novecento Italiano -- Der Ring -- Neue Sachlichkeit -- Surrealism -- Elementarism -- Gruppo 7 -- M.I.A.R. -- Concrete art -- Magic realism -- American scene -- Social realism -- Socialist realism -- Neo-romanticism -- 1945-1965: a new disorder: Art Brut -- Existential art -- Outsider art -- Organic abstraction -- Art informel -- Abstract expressionism -- Lettrism -- CoBrA -- Beat art -- Kinetic art -- Kitchen sink school -- Neo-Dada -- Combines -- New brutalism -- Funk art -- Nouveau réalisme -- Situationist international -- Assemblage -- Pop art -- Performance art -- GRAV -- Fluxus -- Op art -- Post-painterly abstraction -- 1965-today: beyond the avant-gardes: Minimalism -- Conceptual art -- Body art -- Installation -- Super-realism -- Anti-design -- Supports-Surfaces -- Video art -- Earth art -- Site works -- Arte Povera -- Postmodernism -- High-tech -- Neo-expressionism -- Neo-pop -- Transavanguardia -- Sound art -- Internet art -- Destination art -- DesignArt -- Art photography -- 200 key styles: a dictionary.

Call number

1. JQF 15-1430

Note

1. "First published in 2002 in hardcover in the USA as Art in the modern era : a guide to styles, schools and movements"--T.p. verso.
2. Includes fold-out pages.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Dempsey, Amy, 1963-

Title

1. Styles, schools and movements : the essential encyclopaedic guide to modern art / Amy Dempsey.

Imprint

1. New York : Thames & Hudson, c2010.

Edition

1. 2nd ed.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Dempsey, Amy, 1963- Art in the modern era.

LCCN

1. 2009929115

ISBN

1. 9780500288443 (pbk.)
2. 0500288445 (pbk.)