TY - BOOK AU - Little,Stephen TI - --isms: understanding art SN - 0789312093 AV - N 5302 L778i 2004 U1 - 709 PY - 2004/// CY - New York, NY PB - Universe KW - Art movements KW - Art KW - History N1 - Renaissance -- International Gothicism -- Classicism -- Secularism -- Monumentalism -- Humanism -- Idealism -- Perspectivism -- Illusionism -- Naturalism -- Mannerism -- Baroque -- Allegoricism -- Baroque classicism -- Pietism -- Sectarianism -- Gesturalism -- Emotionalism -- Caravaggism -- Absolutism -- Rococo -- Academicism -- Neo-classicism -- 19th century -- Romanticism -- Orientalism -- Medievalism -- Pre-Raphaelitism -- Realism -- Materialism -- Impressionism -- Neo-impressionism -- Secessionism -- Aestheticism -- Symbolism -- Post-impressionism -- Modernism -- Fauvism -- Primitivism -- Expressionism -- Cubism -- Futurism -- Dadaism -- Suprematism -- Constructivism : Russian and international -- Neo-plasticism -- Surrealism -- Spatialism -- Abstract expressionism -- Social realism -- Post-modernism -- Conceptualism -- Neo-conceptualism -- Neo-expressionism -- Minimalism -- Sensationalism -- Glossary of artists -- Glossary of useful terms -- Chronology of isms -- List of museums to visit N2 - An introductory guide to the visual arts offers a look at the many "isms" that are used to define art movements, with a discussion of the various art historical periods, their significance, and their most important artists and works ER -