Styles, schools, directions. Guide to modern art. Damping E.

vocabulary, usually used to describe contemporary art - from impressionism to installation, from Nabi to neoexpressionism, from symbolism to hyperrealism - gradually turned into a special language, sophisticated and sometimes frightening its complexity. Styles, schools and directions only in rare cases have clear boundaries and amenable to simple definitions; More often they are internally contradictory, complex and often intersect in the artistic space. Nevertheless, the concepts of “style”, “school” and “direction” continue to exist, and understanding them is absolutely necessary for any discussion of modern art. The definition of their boundaries and the characteristic is still the best way to “mapping” such complicated composition, and sometimes difficult to understand the subject. This book was conceived as a systematic review consisting of individual essays, and as a common guide for one of the most dynamic and exciting periods in the history of art.

the set of more than 300 styles proposed in this guide, schools and directions gives an idea cardinal lines of development in painting, sculpture, architecture and design of Western countries. The material is generally located in a chronological order-from the impressionism of the nineteenth century to such directions of the age of twenty-first as Land Art, sound art, Internet art.