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Art that changed the world, chief consultant, Ian Chilvers ; contributors, Iain Zaczek, Jude Welton, Caroline Bugler, Lorrie Mack

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Art that changed the world, chief consultant, Ian Chilvers ; contributors, Iain Zaczek, Jude Welton, Caroline Bugler, Lorrie Mack

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eng

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illustrations

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index present

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non fiction

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Art that changed the world

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827841927

Responsibility statement

chief consultant, Ian Chilvers ; contributors, Iain Zaczek, Jude Welton, Caroline Bugler, Lorrie Mack

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

Table Of Contents

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

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