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Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements
Gauvin Alexander Bailey
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Description for Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements
Hardcover. A world history of art styles, schools and movements. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white halftones, colour illust. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 296 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2636.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780714867373
SKU
V9780714867373
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99-50
About Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Over twenty specialist contributors include Noit Banai, Lecturer of Visual and Critical Studies at Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Professor and Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Lee Beard, British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London Lucy Bowditch, ... Read more
Reviews for Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements
"Beautifully produced... An absorbing and enlightening gallop through art. The careful balance of digestible chunks of information with beautiful images makes this equally rewarding as a dip-into coffee table book or a cover to cover read."—Royal Academy of Arts Magazine "Like Theseus’s string guiding him the Minotaur’s labyrinth, Art in Time leads the reader through the most important ... Read more