Styles, Schools And Movements

by Dempsey, Amy

• ISBN13: 9780500283769
• ISBN10: 0500283761
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Summary

A profusely illustrated, cross-referenced guide to more than a century of stylistic and conceptual revolution in art. The three hundred styles, schools, and movements discussed here provide an introduction and a guide to the major developments in Modern Art.

Table of Contents

Preface	10	(4)
1860-1900 Rise of the Avant-Gardes
Impressionism	14	(5)
Arts and Crafts	19	(4)
Chicago School	23	(2)
Les Vingt	25	(1)
Neo-Impressionism	26	(4)
Decadent Movement	30	(3)
Art Nouveau	33	(5)
Modernisme	38	(3)
Symbolism	41	(4)
Post-Impressionism	45	(4)
Cloisonnism	49	(1)
Nabis	50	(3)
Synthetism	53	(3)
Salon de la Rose+Croix	56	(1)
Jugendstil	57	(2)
Vienna Secession	59	(3)
World of Art	62	(4)
1900-1918 Modernisms for a Modern World
Fauvism	66	(4)
Expressionism	70	(4)
Die Brucke	74	(4)
Ashcan School	78	(2)
Deutscher Werkbund	80	(3)
Cubism	83	(5)
Futurism	88	(4)
Jack of Diamonds	92	(2)
Der Blaue Reiter	94	(3)
Synchromism	97	(2)
Orphism	99	(3)
Rayonism	102	(1)
Suprematism	103	(3)
Constructivism	106	(3)
Pittura Metafisica	109	(2)
Vorticism	111	(2)
Hungarian Activism	113	(1)
School of Amsterdam	114	(1)
Dada	115	(4)
Purism	119	(2)
De Stijl	121	(5)
1918-1945 Search for a New Order
Arbeitsrat fur Kunst	126	(2)
Novembergruppe	128	(2)
Bauhaus	130	(4)
Precisionism	134	(1)
Art Deco	135	(5)
Ecole de Paris	140	(2)
International Style	142	(4)
Novecento Italiano	146	(1)
Der Ring	147	(2)
Neue Sachlichkeit	149	(2)
Surrealism	151	(4)
Elementarism	155	(1)
Gruppo 7	156	(1)
M.I.A.R.	157	(2)
Concrete Art	159	(2)
Magic Realism	161	(2)
American Scene	163	(3)
Social Realism	166	(2)
Socialist Realism	168	(2)
Neo-Romanticism	170	(4)
1945-1965 A New Disorder
Art Brut	174	(2)
Existential Art	176	(4)
Outsider Art	180	(1)
Organic Abstraction	181	(3)
Art Informel	184	(4)
Abstract Expressionism	188	(4)
Lettrism	192	(1)
CoBrA	193	(2)
Beat Art	195	(2)
Kinetic Art	197	(2)
Kitchen Sink School	199	(2)
Neo-Dada	201	(4)
Combines	205	(1)
New Brutalism	206	(2)
Funk Art	208	(2)
Nouveau Realisme	210	(3)
Situationist International	213	(2)
Assemblage	215	(2)
Pop Art	217	(5)
Performance Art	222	(4)
GRAV	226	(2)
Fluxus	228	(2)
Op Art	230	(2)
Post-painterly Abstraction	232	(4)
1965-today Beyond the Avant-Gardes
Minimalism	236	(4)
Conceptual Art	240	(4)
Body Art	244	(3)
Installation	247	(4)
Super-realism	251	(3)
Anti-Design	254	(2)
Supports-Surfaces	256	(1)
Video Art	257	(3)
Earth Art	260	(3)
Site Works	263	(3)
Arte Povera	266	(3)
Postmodernism	269	(5)
High-Tech	274	(2)
Neo-Expressionism	276	(5)
Neo-Pop	281	(1)
Transavanguardia	282	(2)
Sound Art	284	(2)
Internet Art	286	(3)
200 Key Styles: A Dictionary	289	(7)
List of Illustrations	296	(3)
Index	299