Lucie-Smith, Edward

Discusses some of the best and most significant work of different groups, schools, and periods of American Realism, ranging from before the Revolutionary War and continuing through the Postmodern era, and includes 250 black-and-white and color reproductions.

Survey of the arts and ideas of Western Civilization from Paleolithic times to the present.

Provides a history of visual arts, beginning in 1945 with the late modern period, through globalization and the rise of new classicism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.