To Justin Saunders

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First published in the United Kingdom in 2002as Styles, Schools and Movements: An Encyclopaedic

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Contentsio Preface

1860-1900Rise of the Avant-Gardes

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ImpressionismArts and Crafts

Chicago School

Les Vingt

Neo-lmpressionism

Decadent Movement

Art Nouveau

Modernisme

Symbolism

Post-Impressionism

Cloisonnism

Nabis

Synthetism

Salon de la Rose+Croix

Jugendstil

Vienna Secession

World of Art

1900-1918Modernisms for a Modern World

Fauvism

Expressionism

Die Briicke

Ashcan School

Deutscher Werkbund

Cubism

Futurism

Jack of Diamonds

Der Blaue Reiter

Synchromism

Orphism

Rayonism

Suprematism

Constructivism

Pittura Metafisica

Vorticism

13 Hungarian Activism

14 School of Amsterdam

15 Dada

119 Purism

De Stijl

1918-1945Search for a New Order

126 Arbei tsrat fur Kunst

!28 Novembergruppe

130 Bauhaus

134 Precisionism

135 Ar t Deco

140 Ecole de Paris

142 Internat ional Style

146 Novecento Ital iano

147 Der Ring

149 Neue Sachl ichkeit

151 Surreal ism

155 Elementar ism

156 Gruppo 7

157 M.I.A.R.

159 Concrete Ar t

161 Magic Realism

163 Amer ican Scene

166 Social Real ism

168 Social ist Real ism

170 Neo-Romant ic ism

1945-1965A New Disorder

174 Ar t Brut

176 Existential Ar t

180 Outsider Ar t

181 Organic Abst rac t ion

184 Art Informel

188 Abstract Expressionism

192 Lettrism

193 CoBrA

195 Beat Art

197 Kinetic Art

199 Kitchen Sink School

201 Neo-Dada

205 Combines

206 New Brutal ism

208 Funk Art

210 Nouveau Realisme

213 Situationist International

215 Assemblage

217 Pop Art

222 Performance Art

226 GRAV

228 Fluxus

230 Op Art

232 Post-painterly Abstract ion

1965-TodayBeyond the Avant-Gardes

236 Min imal ism

240 Conceptual Art

244 Body Art

247 Installation

251 Super-realism

254 Anti-Design

256 Supports-Surfaces

257 Video Art

260 Earth Art

263 Site Works

266 Arte Povera

269 Postmodernism

274 High-Tech

276 Neo-Expressionism

281 Neo-Pop

282 Transavanguardia

284 Sound Art

286 Internet Art

289 Destination Art

291 DesignArt

293 Art Photography

296 200 Key Styles: A Dictionary

303 List of Illustrations

307 Index