ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present [Paperback]

The leading lexicon of contemporary art returns in an expanded, full-color third edition.

An indispensable guide for art-world neophytes and seasoned professionals alike, the best-sellingArtSpeakreturns in a revised and expanded third edition, illustrated in full color. 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 eighty images, most in color, illustrate key works of the art movements discussed, makingArtSpeaka 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.

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
Düsseldorf School of Photography
Earth Art
East Village
El Paso
Existentialism
Expressionism
Fashion Aesthetic
Feminist Art
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