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Styles, Schools & Movements
The Essential Guide to Modern Art
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An essential reference for anyone seeking to understand 20th- and 21st-century art.
An essential reference for anyone seeking to understand 20th- and 21st-century art.
Organized chronologically, Styles, Schools and Movements offers fully cross-referenced summaries of over 300 major and minor movements, from Arts and Crafts and Impressionism to Destination Art and Afrofuturism, tracing intriguing patterns of influence across styles and over time.
Enhanced with a comprehensive timeline, further reading suggestions and details of major international collections, the book serves as both an accessible introduction and a valuable resource for deeper exploration.
Thoroughly updated and expanded, this new edition brings the original publication firmly into the contemporary era. New entries - such as Art and Nature, Black Atlantic and Indigenous Futurism - highlight emerging discourses, while newly featured artists - including El Anatsui, Frida Kahlo, Hilma af Klint, Faith Ringgold and Ai Weiwei - reflect the ever-evolving landscape of global art in the 21st century.
Organized chronologically, Styles, Schools and Movements offers fully cross-referenced summaries of over 300 major and minor movements, from Arts and Crafts and Impressionism to Destination Art and Afrofuturism, tracing intriguing patterns of influence across styles and over time.
Enhanced with a comprehensive timeline, further reading suggestions and details of major international collections, the book serves as both an accessible introduction and a valuable resource for deeper exploration.
Thoroughly updated and expanded, this new edition brings the original publication firmly into the contemporary era. New entries - such as Art and Nature, Black Atlantic and Indigenous Futurism - highlight emerging discourses, while newly featured artists - including El Anatsui, Frida Kahlo, Hilma af Klint, Faith Ringgold and Ai Weiwei - reflect the ever-evolving landscape of global art in the 21st century.
Extent: 352 pp
Format: Paperback
Illustrations: Illustrated in colour
Publication date: 2027-02-23
Size: 27.9 x 20.3 cm
ISBN: 9780500298770
Praise for Styles, Schools & Movements
A solid guide for those who like to see art conveniently grouped and need a quick reference to names and dates
RA Magazine
Extremely handsome ... at once accessible and illuminating
The Scotsman
About the Author
Amy Dempsey is an art historian who studied under Rosalind Krauss at Hunter College in New York and received her doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Dempsey has written for various London museums, including Tate, and is the author of Destination Art, Modern Art and Surrealism in the Art Essentials series.
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