ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords, 1848-1944

Now that ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords has demystified post-war art, ArtSpoke is intented to clarify international art terms from Realism through Surrealism. ArtSpoke features the same user-friendly layout in dictionary form as ArtSpeak. It provides a valuable guide to the first century of modern art and explains such popular but often misunderstood movements, styles, and groupings as the Pre-Raphaelites, Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, symbolism, Scuola Metafisica, Neue Sachlichkeit, Vorticism and so on. Concise definitions of potentially perplexing concepts and techniques such as allegory , androgyny , calotype , femme fatale , found object , primitivism , spiritualism , and so on distinguish this guide. The book includes an ArtChart - a one page chart of the chronological relationships among the various movements; as well as a timeline of world history and art history (1848-1945) with 24 colour illustrations and suggestions for further reading.