The Great Chronology of Art

From modern times to antiquity, a unique guide to essential artistic styles and movements. - The original and anti-chronological organization of this book shows how the present helps to understand the past, how artists turn to the latter to reinterpret it. - Whole pages of historical documents, photographs, newspaper headlines and other ephemera evoke the eras that saw the birth of these styles and movements. - Authors include Noit Banai, Professor of Visual and Critical Studies, Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Professor of Southern Baroque Art, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Lee Beard, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Katie Hill, Director of the Office of Contemporary Chinese Art and Consulting Professor at Sotheby's Institute of Art. Monica Kjellman-Chapin, Associate Professor of Art History, Emporia State University, Kansas. Lloyd Laing, ex-Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Nottingham. Caroline Levitt, guest lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Matthew McKelway, Associate Professor of Japanese Art History, Columbia University, New York. Jeffrey Moser, Assistant Professor of East-Eastern Art History, McGill University, Montreal. Stella Paul, ex-professor responsible for exhibitions and communication, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Alistair Rider, Professor of Art History, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Robert Shane, Associate Professor of Art History, College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York. Sarah Symmons, Emeritus Professor of Art History and Theory, University of Essex. Alicia Volk, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Maryland.