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Styles, Schools and Movements: The Essential Guide to Modern Art
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $60.00
ISBN13: 9780500298770
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: Mar 2 2027
Pages: 352
Language: English
Styles, Schools and Movements is an essential reference for anyone seeking to understand modern and contemporary art, two of the most dynamic and exciting periods in art history. Art historian Amy Dempsey outlines more than three hundred of the most important developments in art, design, and architecture--from Arts and Crafts and impressionism to Destination Art and Afrofuturism. Organized chronologically, individual entries provide fully cross-referenced summaries of major and minor movements, tracing intriguing patterns of influence across styles and over time.
Enhanced with a foldout timeline, reading suggestions, and listings of major international collections, this volume provides a richly detailed reference of over one thousand artists, architects, designers, critics, and collectors of modern art, connecting styles, schools, and movements with the figures who defined them.
Now thoroughly revised, this expanded edition introduces sixteen new entries, including the Harlem Renaissance, Mexican Muralism, the Gutai movement, street art, digital art, and Indigenous Futurism, and features an updated dictionary of additional styles. Among the many influential artists featured are El Anatsui, Frida Kahlo, Hilma af Klint, Faith Ringgold, Takashi Murakami, and many others.
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