"This text examines all the major debates and issues using a wide range of well-known examples. It discusses the challenge of using verbal and written language to analyse a visual form. "
Introduces a new, chronological way of examining the major art movements of the Western world over the last two thousand years. Provides important examples of work from 240 leading artists.
"... art historian Martin Kemp takes the reader on an extraordinary trip through art, from devotional works to the revolutionary techniques of the Renaissance, from the courtly Masters of the seventeenth century through to the daring avant-garde of the twentieth century and beyond."