An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to 150 of the most significant styles and movements that have shaped art history through time. All art is of its time, and this book is the first survey that explicitly embeds styles, schools and movements within the politics and culture in which they arose, by means of timelines, textual references and the unique present-to-past arrangement of the book. An essential guide to art styles and movements and a history of world art from the present day to Greek antiquity, this book places the reader in the art historian's seat, offering an opportunity to work backwards from our own time and reconnect the dots, or even find new dots to connect

• The information age : twenty-first to late twentieth century
• The space age : mid-twentieth century
• The world at war : early twentieth century
• The industrial revolution : nineteenth century
• The age of enlightenment : eighteenth century
• The age of discovery : seventeenth century
• The Renaissance : sixteenth to fourteenth centuries
• The Medieval world : thirteenth to fourth century
• The classical age : third century AD to fifth century BC