Full Description
An indispensable guide for art-world neophytes and seasoned professionals alike, the best-selling ArtSpeak returns in a revised and expanded third edition, illustrated in full colour. Nearly 150 alphabetical entries - 30 of them new to this edition - explain the who, what, where, and when of postwar and contemporary art. These concise mini-essays on the key terms of the art world are written with wit and common sense by veteran critic Robert Atkins. More than 80 images, most in colour, illustrate key works of the art movements discussed, making ArtSpeak a visual reference, as well as a textual one. A timeline traces world and art-world events from 1945 to the present day, and a single-page ArtChart provides a handy overview of the major art movements in that period.
Contents
Table of Contents from: ArtSpeak Introduction How To Use This Book Timeline '85 New Wave Abject Expressionism Abstract Expressionism Academic Art Action/Actionism AIDS Art Allegory Alternative Space Anti-Art Antipodean Group Appropriation Art and Technology Art Brut Arte Povera Art Informel Artists' Books Artists' Furniture Art Market Art World Assemblage "Bad" Painting Bay Area Figurative Style Biennial Black Arts Movement Body Art Ceramic Sculpture Chicago Imagism CoBrA Color-Field Painting Comics Art Commodification Computer Art Conceptual Art Concrete Art Constructivism Contemporary Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art Content Copy Art Crafts-as-Art Culture Wars Cynical Realism Dada Dau al Set Documentation Dusseldorf School of Photography Earth Art East Village El Paso Existentialism Expressionism Fashion Aesthetic Feminist Art Figurative Finish Fetish Fluxus Formal/Formalism Found Object Funk Art Gesture/Gesturalism Graffiti Art Gutai Happening Hard-Edge Painting Installation Intermedia Junk Sculpture Kinetic Sculpture Kitsch Light-and-Space Art Mail Art Manipulated Photography Media Art Minimalism Mission School Modernism Mono-ha Mulheimer Freiheit Multiculturalism Multiple Narrative Art Neo-Concretism Neo-Dad Neo-Expressionism Neo-Geo New Image New Leipzig School New Media New Realism New Wave Nouveau Realisme Online Art Op Art The Other Outsider Art Painterly Pathetic Art Pattern and Decoration Performance Art Photo-Realism Picture Plane Pictures Generation Pluralism Political Art Political Pop Pop Art Popular Culture Post- Postmodernism Primitivism Print Revival Process Art Public Art Realism Regionalism Representation Saint Ives Painters Scatter Art School of London School of Paris Semiotics Shaped Canvas Simulation Situationism Snapshot Aesthetic Socialist Realism Social Practice Social Realism Sots Art Sound Art Space Art Spatialism Staged Photography Stars Group Straight Photography Street Art Style Surrealism Transavantgarde Tropicalism Video Art Young British Artists Zeitgeist Index Photography Credits
