Art : the definitive visual guide / forword by Ross King.

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  • Author(s): Bridgeman Art Library.
  • Language:
    English
  • Publication Information:
    New York, New York : Dorling Kindersley, [2018]
  • Publication Date:
    2018
  • Physical Description:
    612 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
  • Publication Type:
    Book
  • Document Type:
    Non-fiction
  • Subject Terms:
    Art -- History; Art appreciation
  • Availability: 10 Holdings
  • Additional Information
    • Publication Information:
      Second edition.
    • Abstract:
      Summary: Provides a guided tour around 2,500 of the world's most influential painting and sculptures, from cave paintings to modern masterpieces.
    • Content Notes:
      Looking at art: Subject & composition -- Perspective & viewpoint -- Light & shade -- Media & techniques -- Colour -- Brushstrokes & texture -- Prehistory to 1400 CE: Prehistoric art -- Ancient Near East -- Ancient Egypt -- Civilizations of the East -- Ancient Greece -- Nudes -- Etruscans and Ancient Rome -- Outside the Empire -- Early Christian and Byzantine -- Carolingian -- Ottonian -- Viking art -- Anglo-Saxon and Celtic art -- Early Islamic art -- South Asia -- Southeast Asia -- East Asia -- Central and South America -- Romanesque and Gothic art -- Early Italian art -- International Gothic art -- 15th and 16th centuries: Italian Renaissance -- Myth and legend -- Northern Renaissance -- Landscape -- Mannerism -- China: Ming Dynasty -- Japanese art -- Central and South America.
    • Content Notes:
      17th and 18th centuries: Baroque -- Still life -- Rococo -- Animals -- Neoclassicism -- English watercolourists -- Colonia America -- China: Qing dynasty -- Japanese art -- Islamic art -- Hindu art.
    • Content Notes:
      19th century: Romanticism -- Love -- Realism -- The Pre-Raphaelites -- Victorian art -- French academic art -- Japanese art -- Impressionism -- Neo- and Postimpressionism -- Children -- The Nabis -- Symbolism and Art Nouveau -- Scandanavian art -- End of the century -- Sculpture -- African art -- Oceania.
    • Content Notes:
      Early 20th century: Fauvism -- German Expressionism -- Pre-war Vienna -- Cubism -- Futurism, Rayonism, & Orphism -- Birth of abstract art -- Work -- Early British Modernism -- Early US Moderism -- Naive Painting -- École de Paris -- Constructivism -- Dada -- Surrealism -- Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) -- Bauhaus -- Avant-Garde in Britain & the US -- Realism and Figurative Painting -- Mexican art -- 1945 onwards: Abstract Expressionism -- War -- Postwar Europe -- Abstract painting and sculpture -- Minimal art -- Pop art -- Portraits -- Op art and Kinetic art -- Assemblage, Junk, & Land art -- Conceptual art -- Figurative painting -- Superrealism -- Feminist art -- Neo-Expressionism and Graffiti art -- New media -- Contemporary sculpture -- Australian Aboriginal art -- Europe today -- Africa today -- Asia today -- North America today.
    • Notes:
      Published in association with the Bridgeman Art Library.
      Previously published in 2008.
      Includes index.
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    • ISBN:
      9781465474759
      1465474757
    • Accession Number:
      1044619449
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.1046192