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Styles, Schools and Movements: An Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art
Amy Dempsey
Thames and Hudson
London
2002
304pp.
ISBN 0 500 23788 3
L24.95
Keyword Art
One hundred entries presenting the styles, schools and movements of the most dynamic period in art history, from the end of the nineteenth to early twenty-first century, are presented in this new encyclopaedic guide to modern art. Entries selected represent the most significant developments in modern art, bringing together painting, sculpture, architecture and design. Subjects progress in roughly chronological order from Impressionism through Cubism, Art Deco, Art Brut and Neo-Dada to more contemporary movements, for example, Body Art, Installation, Sound Art...