FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the first time. In the year in which Matar's life was shattered by the disappearance of his father the work of the great artists of Siena seemed to offer him a sense of hope. Over the years since then,...

This is the most famous and popular art book ever written and has been an international bestseller for 45 years. It is the ideal introduction to the history of art for school or college students and the general reader.

This volume has extremely broad coverage of artists, styles and movements, art writers and theorists, materials and techniques, as well as patronage, and major centres of art.

With informed insight and penetrating analysis, Anne Rorimer surveys the most prominent names and movements in the art of the late 1960s and 1970s to form a coherent picture of pioneering art that prefigured many of the themes and concerns of today.