...isms: Understanding ArtRevised Edition, Updated 2017 Isms: Understanding Art is the perfect pocket-sized guide for gallery and museum lovers who have a general interest in the arts, but not necessarily any formal education in the visual arts. With this portable and indispensable tool in hand, anyone can guide themselves through the world's prestigious museums and major art collections and recognize and intelligently discuss the significant movements that have shaped the world of art. Using an informative and engaging style with informal and direct tone, each of the numerous "isms" that are used to define-but often misleadingly cloud-art movements are explained in simple terms and made accessible to the casual art lover. Readers are encouraged to think of styles as useful tools for conversation and exploration rather than as hard and fast academic definitions, and to relate to the art itself rather than to a merely conceptual idea. Each spread is devoted to a single art historical period and begins with an introduction that explains when the movement first emerged, the historical period to which it applies, and the principal disputes over its applicability, usefulness, or significance. The rest of the chapter is divided into several sections illustrating the most important artists and works within the period, related key words, and illustrations that best represent the distinctive features. This comprehensible structure makes it possible for any reader to gain a clear understanding of Classicism or Cubism while sitting in a cafe or visiting a gallery. |
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International Allegoricism Romanticism | 46 |
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19th century Abstract Expressionism Academic Academicism Aestheticism allegorical Allegoricism ANDREA MANTEGNA architecture Baroque art Baroque Classicism BRAMANTE canvas Caravaggism CÉZANNE characterised Christ colour Conceptualism Constructivism cover detail Cubism cultural DACS Dadaism decorative Derain developed dominant DONATO emotional Emotionalism emphasised explored Expressionists Fauvism figures Gauguin genre GEORGES Gesturalism GIORGIO Guggenheim Museum High Renaissance human idealised Idealism Illusionism images Impressionism influenced International Gothicism JACOPO Key artists landscape LEONARDO DA VINCI LEWITT London Louis Louvre Madonna Malevich Mannerism Medievalism Mondrian monumental movement Musée d'Orsay Museum of Modern National Gallery Naturalism Neo-Classicism Neo-Conceptualism Neo-Expressionism objects painting Paris perspective Perspectivism PICASSO Pietism political Portrait Post-Impressionism Post-Modernism POUSSIN Pre-Raphaelitism Primitivism quadratura rejected religious Renaissance artists Rococo Romanticism Rome Saint sculpture Secessionism Sectarianism Secularism shaped significant Social Realism Solomon Spatialism spiritual St Peter's style subject matter Suprematism Surrealism Symbolism Tate Britain Tate Modern term tradition trend Uffizi viewer Virgin visual arts York