Art that changed the world

Chilvers, Ian, (author,, consultant.). Zaczek, Iain, (author.). Welton, Jude, (author.). Bugler, Caroline, (author.). Mack, Lorrie, (author.).

Summary:

Using a visual timeline, tells the story of every major art style, movement by movement, by defining each artistic style and putting seminal works of genius in their historical context.

Record details

ISBN: 9781465414359 (hardcover)
ISBN: 1465414355 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 400 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : DK Publishing, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Subtitle on cover: Transformative art movements and the paintings that inspired them.

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ancient and medieval. -- Prehistoric art -- Egyptian art -- Greek and Roman art -- Early Christian and Byzantine -- The Dark Ages -- Romanesque and Gothic -- Renaissance and mannerism. -- Birth of the Renaissance -- Flowering of the Renaissance -- High Renaissance -- Venetian Renaissance -- Northern Renaissance -- Italian mannerism -- Mannerism outside Italy -- Baroque to neoclassicism. -- Italian Baroque -- Flemish and Spanish Baroque -- Dutch Baroque -- French Baroque -- French rococo -- Rococo outside France -- Neoclassicism -- The 19th century. -- Romanticism -- Romantic landscape -- Pre-Raphaelites -- Realism -- Impressionism -- Post-impressionism -- Symbolism -- The modern age. -- Expressionism -- Cubism -- Birth of abstract art -- Dada and surrealism -- Abstract expressionism -- Pop and op art -- Recent abstraction -- The figurative tradition.