Beschreibung des Artikels

A World History of Styles and Movements. An up-to-date guide to the most significant art styles and movements from the present to antiquity. Unique present-to-past arrangement illustrates how the present continually informs the past: how artists look back and re-interpret the past anew. Pages of fascinating historical documents, photographs, newspaper headlines and other ephemera evoke the times in which styles and movements arose. Integrated timeline places each artistic development within its cultural context, reconnecting art to the real world.