"The leading lexicon of contemporary art returns in an expanded, full-color third edition. An indispensable guide for art-world neophytes and seasoned professionals alike, the best-selling ArtSpeak returns in a revised and expanded third edition, illustrated in full color. Nearly 150 alphabetical entries-30 of them new to this edition-explain the who, what, where, and when of postwar and contemporary art. These concise mini-essays on the key terms of the art world are written with wit and common sense by veteran critic Robert Atkins. More than eighty images, most in color, illustrate key works of the art movements discussed, making ArtSpeak a visual reference, as well as a textual one. A timeline traces world and art-world events from 1945 to the present day, and a single-page ArtChart provides a handy overview of the major art movements in that period. "-- ""ArtSpeak," a lexicon of postwar and contemporary art, defines 146 key terms, often in a who/when/where/what format. 29 entries new to this edition, dozens of others revised. 83 reproductions of representative artworks, most in color. Illustrated timeline of world and art-world events from 1945 to 2012. Index includes nationalities and life dates of the artists referenced"-- Provided by publisher. Provided by publisher.

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: '85 New Wave -- Abject Expressionism -- Abstract/Abstraction -- Abstract Expressionism -- Academic Art -- Action/Actionism -- AIDS Art -- Allegory -- Alternative Space -- Anti-Art -- Antipodean Group -- Appropriation -- Art and Technology -- Art Brut -- Arte Povera -- Art Informel -- Artists' Books -- Artists' Furniture -- Art Market -- Art World -- Assemblage -- "Bad" Painting -- Bay Area Figurative Style -- Biennial -- Black Arts Movement -- Body Art -- Ceramic Sculpture -- Chicago Imagism -- CoBrA -- Collaborative Art -- Collage -- Color-Field Painting -- Comics Art -- Commodification -- Computer Art -- Conceptual Art -- Concrete Art -- Constructivism -- Contemporary -- Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art -- Content -- Copy Art -- Crafts-as-Art -- Culture Wars -- Cynical Realism -- Dada -- Dau al Set -- Documentation -- Düsseldorf School of Photography -- Earth Art -- East Village -- El Paso -- Existentialism -- Expressionism -- Fashion Aesthetic -- Feminist Art -- Figurative -- Finish Fetish -- Fluxus -- Formal/Formalism -- Found Object -- Funk Art -- Gesture/Gesturalism -- Graffiti Art -- Gutai -- Happening -- Hard-Edge Painting -- Installation -- Intermedia -- Junk Sculpture -- Kinetic Sculpture -- Kitsch -- Light-and-Space Art -- Mail Art -- Manipulated Photography -- Media Art -- Minimalism -- Mission School -- Modernism -- Mono-ha -- Mulheimer Freiheit -- Multiculturalism -- Multiple -- Narrative Art -- Neo-Concretism -- Neo-Dada -- Neo-Expressionism -- Neo-Geo -- New Image -- New Leipzig School -- New Media -- New Realism -- New Wave -- Nouveau Realisme -- Online Art -- Op Art -- The Other -- Outsider Art -- Painterly -- Pathetic Art -- Pattern and Decoration -- Performance Art -- Photo-Realism -- Picture Plane -- Pictures Generation -- Pluralism -- Political Art -- Political Pop -- Pop Art -- Popular Culture -- Post- -- Postmodernism -- Primitivism -- Print Revival -- Process Art -- Public Art -- Realism -- Regionalism -- Representation -- Saint Ives Painters -- Scatter Art -- School of London -- School of Paris -- Semiotics -- Shaped Canvas -- Simulation -- Situationism -- Snapshot Aesthetic -- Socialist Realism -- Social Practice -- Social Realism -- Sots Art -- Sound Art -- Space Art -- Spatialism -- Staged Photography -- Stars Group -- Straight Photography -- Street Art -- Style -- Surrealism -- Transavantgarde -- Tropicalism -- Video Art -- Young British Artists -- Zeitgeist.