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

By: Dempsey, Amy, 1963-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2005, c2002Description: 304 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0500283761 .Subject(s): Art movements -- History -- 20th century -- Encyclopedias | Art movements -- History -- 19th century -- Encyclopedias | Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Encyclopedias | Art, Modern -- 19th century -- EncyclopediasDDC classification: 709.04
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Reference MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Reference 709.04 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Reference 00065492
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Art in the modern era has come to be defined by its styles, schools and movements. The three hundred discussed here provide an introduction and a guide to the major developments in Western painting, sculpture, architecture and design during one of the most dynamic and exciting periods in art history. One hundred main entries are presented in broadly chronological order, from Impressionism in the nineteenth century to Earth Art, Sound Art and Internet Art in the twenty first. Two hundred supplementary entries provide fully cross referenced summaries of essential styles and movements, tracing intriguing 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 entire period. A list 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, linking the styles, schools and movements with the people who created them.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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CHOICE Review

Sorting Western art into its styles, schools, and movements is not a straightforward approach to art history. Independent scholar Dempsey offers 300-plus encyclopedia entries that are replete with cross-references. Her foldout time line is overlapping and color-coded, and a single artist can appear in over a half dozen chapters. Dempsey's method, however, provides a valuable conceptual framework for understanding the past 150 years of painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture. Styles, Schools and Movements stands apart from survey textbooks, alphabetical reference works, or artist dictionaries that fail to clarify the nuanced distinctions between, e.g., Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, and Postimpressionism. Dempsey's scope is broad. Her entries on familiar and unfamiliar groups describe defining ideologies, influences, and formal characteristics. Color reproductions, locations of art collections devoted to each movement, and bibliographies accompany the text. And in case she missed anything, Dempsey includes a seven-page dictionary of "key styles," listing 200 secondary movements and artist groups. Three new entries append the previous edition (published by Abrams), titled Art in the Modern Era: Styles, Schools, Movements (CH, Sep'02, 40-0069). Images, bibliographies, and text, however, have not been extensively updated. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Libraries that lack the 2002 edition; lower-level undergraduates and above, and general readers. A. H. Simmons National Gallery of Art

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