Summary
Art has evolved over the millennia along with us, from the earliest cave paintings to the avant garde works of today. In easy-to-understand language with lush, full-color images, this title discusses major periods in Western art history—including prehistoric art, ancient and classical art, Byzantine and medieval art, Renaissance art, Baroque and Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism, and abstract expressionism—as well as famous artists of those periods.