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Styles, Schools and Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art

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I purchased this book as a extra study guide to go along with my Oil-painting class. This book was very helpful in supplying a large amount of information on many artististic movements that have occurred through out history. The only draw back to this book is I wish it had more pictures having to do with each movement, it only supplies one for each movement or for each artist who was considered the foremost authority in this movement.Beside that the book is very helpful and resourceful.

I feel obligated to write the review for this book since it is so good...
The great thing about this book is how many distinct art movements are defined here (hundreds)...
Each synopsis provides a summary of each style, blending in the history and players - sometimes including some social ideals or philosophies behind the movements. Superb!
I first assumed i would just browse the descriptions as a reference - after seeing how insightful the text was, i read the whole thing through... very rewarding...
Quality of the book/binding/color/layout is very good...
Even though there is 1 or more examples for each style, it would have been nice if there were a few more, however, a minor point considering how refreshing and well done this book is...

A guide easy to handle, clear in concepts, and packed with information relvant to students. The selction of pictures is very relevant.

This book gives an excellent overview of art history. The foldout time line at the beginning gives a clear picture of how the different movements and styles overlap and occur through time. Each section also gives a list of key books that you can further your reading. The language is easy to understand and good images are provided with each section. This is a good all-round book to understanding art history.