Art : the definitive visual guide /
editorial constultant by Andrew Graham-Dixon
- London Dorling Kindersley 2008
- 612 p : ill. (chiefly col.), portraits (chiefly col.)
Includes index.
Contents :Looking at art: Subject and composition -- Perspective and viewpoint -- Subject and composition-- Light and shade -- Media and Techniques -- Colour -- Brushstrokes and texture-- Prehistory to 1400 CE: Prehistoric art -- Ancient Near East -- Ancient Egypt -- Civilizations of the East -- Ancient Greece -- Themes : Nudes -- The Etruscans and Ancient Rome -- Outside the Empires -- 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 -- Themes : Myth and legend -- Northern Renaissance -- Themes : Landscape -- Mannerism -- China: Ming Dynasty -- Japanese art -- Central and South America -- 17th and 18th centuries -- Baroque -- Theme : Still life -- Rococo -- Animals -- Neoclassicism -- English watercolourists -- Colonia America -- China: Qing dynasty -- Japanese art -- Islamic art -- Hindu art -- 19th century -- Romanticism -- Theme : Love -- Realism -- Pre-Raphaelites -- Victorian art -- French academic art -- Japanese art -- Impressionism -- Neo- and Postimpressionism -- Theme : Children -- The Nabis -- Symbolism and Art Nouveau -- Scandanavian art -- End of the century -- Sculpture -- African art -- Oceania -- Early 20th century -- Fauvism -- German Expressionism -- Pre-war Vienna -- Cubism -- Futurism, Rayonism and Orphism -- Birth of Abstract art -- Theme : Work -- Early British Modernism -- Early US Moderism -- Naive Painting -- École de Paris -- Constructivism -- Dada -- Surrealism -- Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) -- Bauhaus -- Avant-Garde -- Realism and Figurative Painting -- Mexican art -- 1945 onwards : Abstract Expressionism -- Themes : War -- Postwar Europe -- Abstract painting and sculpture -- Minimal art -- Pop art -- Themes : Portraits -- Op art and Kinetic art -- Assemblage, Junk and 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.
Provides a guided tour around 2,500 of the world's most influential painting and sculptures, from cave paintings to modern masterpieces.