Artspoke A Guide To Modern Ideas Movements And Buzzwords 1848-1944

Chronicling International Art From Realism Through Surrealism, Artspoke Explains Such Popular But Often Misunderstood Movements And Organisations As Impressionism, Post-impressionism, The Salon, The Fauves, The Harlem Renaissance, And So On-as Well As Events Ranging From The 1913 Armory Show To Brazils Little-known Semana De Arte Moderna. Concise Explanations Of Potentially Perplexing Techniques, Media, And Philosophies Of Art Making-including Automatism, Calotype, Found Object, Pictorialism, And Readymade-provide Information Essential To Understanding How Artists Of This Era Worked And Why The Results Look The Way They Do. Entries On Concepts That Were Crucial To The Development Of Modern Art-such As Androgyny, Dandyism, Femme Fatale, Spiritualism, And Many Others-distinguish This Lively Guide From Any Other Art Dictionary On The Market.