--- product_id: 295453193 title: "...isms: Understanding Art" price: "€ 29.63" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/295453193-isms-understanding-art store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # ...isms: Understanding Art **Price:** € 29.63 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** ...isms: Understanding Art - **How much does it cost?** € 29.63 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/295453193-isms-understanding-art) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart.in - Buy ...isms: Understanding Art book online at best prices in India on desertcart.in. Read ...isms: Understanding Art book reviews & author details and more at desertcart.in. Free delivery on qualified orders. Review: I like this little book! It's a straightforward and succinct guide to visually identifying the various styles of art as divided by art historians into "-isms" from the Renaissance to Postmodernism. I am a professional artist, who had the average amount of art history aside studio classes in college, but I have felt an urgent need for some time to better understand myself via the concreteness that a good grip of art history provides... with this book, a good amount of relevant information is relayed with just a couple pages of text and relevant visual examples of work. I appreciate the disclaimer in the book's introduction that it is not "intended to test your ability to label or identify art at 40 paces!" That doesn't mean, however, that it isn't useful. As I said, a lot of info is conveyed in a relatively short amount of book, and with a chronological layout, the -isms are grouped into five time sections: Renaissance, Baroque & Rococo, The 19th Century, Modernism, and Postmodernism. Each of the five sections has a color to code and helps visually group the isms as they explained, and each ism includes the relevant group of artists (and when they lived) within the genre, as well as major works within a specific gallery. At the end of each ism, is an eye symbol denoting that listed movements appear similar to the aforementioned ism, as well as a closed eye symbol to denote what that ism does NOT appear similar to. This book is highly portable in that it is 1) physically small, and 2) structurally sound and rugged in the Flexibound format. I like the long flap at the beginning and end that can be used as a bookmark to keep your place as you read through it. Overall, a handy guide to those either unaqauinted with, or wanting to refresh their understanding of, art history in a general sense. In the past, I have found a real struggle with books that are sizably large, hefty hardcovers bearing so many hundreds of pages, because it is physically cumbersome to delve into and feel aquainted with. The typical burden of lengthy textbooks, I suppose. This book is the opposite and it's breezy approach of subject matter fits perfectly within its physically light and compact self. Review: Perfecto para introducirte en el mundo del arte y tener una buena base. Buena calidad de imágenes y de impresión. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #807,030 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5,205 in Theory & Criticism #8,186 in Encyclopaedias & Reference Works (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (141) | | Dimensions | 13.97 x 1.47 x 20.52 cm | | ISBN-10 | 0789312093 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0789312099 | | Item Weight | 386 g | | Language | English | | Publisher | Universe; Illustrated edition (13 November 2004) | | Turtleback | 160 pages | ## Images ![...isms: Understanding Art - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91vrfo4ZhuL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by N***O on 3 January 2020* I like this little book! It's a straightforward and succinct guide to visually identifying the various styles of art as divided by art historians into "-isms" from the Renaissance to Postmodernism. I am a professional artist, who had the average amount of art history aside studio classes in college, but I have felt an urgent need for some time to better understand myself via the concreteness that a good grip of art history provides... with this book, a good amount of relevant information is relayed with just a couple pages of text and relevant visual examples of work. I appreciate the disclaimer in the book's introduction that it is not "intended to test your ability to label or identify art at 40 paces!" That doesn't mean, however, that it isn't useful. As I said, a lot of info is conveyed in a relatively short amount of book, and with a chronological layout, the -isms are grouped into five time sections: Renaissance, Baroque & Rococo, The 19th Century, Modernism, and Postmodernism. Each of the five sections has a color to code and helps visually group the isms as they explained, and each ism includes the relevant group of artists (and when they lived) within the genre, as well as major works within a specific gallery. At the end of each ism, is an eye symbol denoting that listed movements appear similar to the aforementioned ism, as well as a closed eye symbol to denote what that ism does NOT appear similar to. This book is highly portable in that it is 1) physically small, and 2) structurally sound and rugged in the Flexibound format. I like the long flap at the beginning and end that can be used as a bookmark to keep your place as you read through it. Overall, a handy guide to those either unaqauinted with, or wanting to refresh their understanding of, art history in a general sense. In the past, I have found a real struggle with books that are sizably large, hefty hardcovers bearing so many hundreds of pages, because it is physically cumbersome to delve into and feel aquainted with. The typical burden of lengthy textbooks, I suppose. This book is the opposite and it's breezy approach of subject matter fits perfectly within its physically light and compact self. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by B***A on 7 April 2017* Perfecto para introducirte en el mundo del arte y tener una buena base. Buena calidad de imágenes y de impresión. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by K***I on 20 March 2025* A must have to understand different ism in art. ## Frequently Bought Together - Isms: Understanding Art - Isms... 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