--isms : understanding art
Title:
--isms : understanding art
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
An introductory guide to the visual arts offers a look at the many "isms" that are used to define art movements, with a discussion of the various art historical periods, their significance, and their most important artists and works.
Other Title:
Isms, understanding art.
Year Published:
2004
Physical Description:
159 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Renaissance -- International Gothicism -- Classicism -- Secularism -- Monumentalism -- Humanism -- Idealism -- Perspectivism -- Illusionism -- Naturalism -- Mannerism -- Baroque -- Allegoricism -- Baroque classicism -- Pietism -- Sectarianism -- Gesturalism -- Emotionalism -- Caravaggism -- Absolutism -- Rococo -- Academicism -- Neo-classicism -- 19th century -- Romanticism -- Orientalism -- Medievalism -- Pre-Raphaelitism -- Realism -- Materialism -- Impressionism -- Neo-impressionism -- Secessionism -- Aestheticism -- Symbolism -- Post-impressionism -- Modernism -- Fauvism -- Primitivism -- Expressionism -- Cubism -- Futurism -- Dadaism -- Suprematism -- Constructivism : Russian and international -- Neo-plasticism -- Surrealism -- Spatialism -- Abstract expressionism -- Social realism -- Post-modernism -- Conceptualism -- Neo-conceptualism -- Neo-expressionism -- Minimalism -- Sensationalism -- Glossary of artists -- Glossary of useful terms -- Chronology of isms -- List of museums to visit.
ISBN:
9780789312099
Publisher:
New York : Universe, 2004.
