An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to 150 of the most significant
styles and movements that have shaped art history through time. All art
is of its time, and this book is the first survey that explicitly embeds
styles, schools and movements within the politics and culture in which
they arose, by means of timelines, textual references and the unique
present-to-past arrangement of the book.
An essential guide to art styles and movements and a history of world
art from the present day to Greek antiquity, this book places the reader
in the art historian's seat, offering an opportunity to work backwards
from our own time and reconnect the dots, or even find new dots to
connect. It revives art history, for both the specialist and the general
reader coming to the subject with limited knowledge - it shows
graphically that art history is a living thing, not dead.