Art History: Movements & Styles Revised 2003

Prepared by Loraine Baratti
& Janette Rozene, Associate Professor,  Cataloging Department

The Library uses Library of Congress Subject Headings in StyleCat   Online Catalog. 
For an outline of the Library of Congress Classification and the corresponding subject headings,  click here.

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Subject Headings Abstract expressionism Aesthetic movement (British art) Americana Art      --Computer network resources      --Historiography      --History      --Sources Art, Abstract Art brut Art deco Art nouveau Arts and crafts movement      --Influence Ashcan School of art Assemblage (Art) Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Barbizon School Bauhaus Biedermeier (Art) Blaue Reiter Bloomsbury group Body art Brücke Cave paintings Christian art and symbolism Classicism in art Cobra (Association) Colonial revival (Art) Conceptual art Concrete art Constructivism (Art) Cubism Dadaism De Stijl (Art movement) Dissident art Eclecticism in art Eclecticism in architecture Environment (Art) Erotic art Ethnic art Exoticism in art Expressionism (Art) Fauvism Figurative art Figurative painting Figure painting Folk art Found objects (Art) Functionalism in art Futurism (Art) Genre painting Gothic revival (Art) Graffiti Happening (Art) Hudson River school of landscape painting Idealism in art Illumination of books and manuscripts      , Celtic      , Gothic      , Medieval      See also Books of Hours. Illusion in art Impressionism (Art) Impressionist artists Installations (Art) Kinetic art Kitsch Landscape in art Landscape painting Letter-pictures Ling-nan school of painting Luminism (Art) Magic realism (Art) Mannerism (Art) Marine painting Memphis (Group) Mewar painting Minimal art Minimal sculpture Modernism (Aesthetics) Modernism (Art)      --Influence Moscow school of icon painting Multiple art Narrative art National Socialism and art Naturalism in art Neo-impressionism (Art) Neoclassicism (Art) Neoplasticism New York school of art Optical art Orientalism in art Orphism (Art) Outsider art Pahari painting Performance art Photo-realism Plein-air painting Pop art Portrait painting Portrait painting, Renaissance Post-impressionism (Art) Postmodernism Pre-Raphaelites Pre-Raphaelitism Primitivism in art Public art Purism (Art) Rajput painting Realism in art Renaissance See also Art, Renaissance Revival movements (Art) Romanticism in art Self-portraits Social realism Socialism and art Social realism in art Still-life in art Still-life painting Street art Sublime, The Suprematism in art Surrealism Symbolism (Art movement) Symbolism in art Synchromism (Art) Trompe l’oeil painting Ukiyoe Wiener Secession Wiener Werkstätte Words in art

ADDITIONAL SUBJECT HEADING TIPS Art, Drawing, Painting or Sculpture may be subdivided by style, time period, or civilization, such as: Ancient Assyro-Baylonian Baroque Byzantine Carolingian Celtic Classical Colonial Cretan Early Christian Early Renaissance Edwardian Egyptian Etruscan Gothic Greco-Roman Greek Hellenistic High Gothic High Renaissance Late Gothic Medieval Mesopotamia Minoan Modern      --17th –18th centuries      --19th century      --20th century Mycenaean Oriental Ottonian Prehistoric Primitive Renaissance Rococo Roman Romanesque Spanish Colonial Sumerian Victorian Art, Drawing, Painting or Sculpture may be subdivided by nationality or place such as: American, Europe, European, France, French, United States Art, American refers to works of art by Americans whereas Art –New York (N.Y.) Art –United States refers to works of art by location Art, Drawing, Painting or Sculpture may also be subdivided by religion such as: Painting, Buddhist Sculpture, Hindu Art, Zen See also headings such as: Hindu symbolism Islamic art and symbolism Jewish art and symbolism See also related headings such as: African American art; African American artists; African American painters; African American women artists; Art, Black; Chinese American artists; Haida artists; Haida sculpture; Hispanic American art; Indian art; Navajo art; Navajo artists; Olmec art; Women artists Search for artists’ names as authors and subject headings subdivided such as: Picasso, Pablo      --Catalogues raisonnés      --Exhibitions      --Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.      --Portraits See also types of art objects such as: Altarpieces; Antiquities; Catacombs; Classical antiquities; Figurines; Icons; Monuments; Mosaics; Mural painting and decoration; Santos (Art); Screen painting, Japanese; Statues; Synagogue art; Vases, Black-figured; Vases, Greek; Vases, Red-figured See also artworks or sites such as: Elgin marbles Picasso, Pablo. Guernica. Pompeii (Extinct city) Versailles (France) See also related terms such as: Aesthetics, Archaeology, Art criticism, Art museums, Feminism and art, Mythology, Symbolism See also subjects in art such as: Christian saints in art; Costume in art; Fetishism in art; Grotesque in art; Human figure in art; Mythology, Classical in art; Nude in art; Saints (Art); West (U.S.) in art; Women in art For design motifs, see also Decoration and ornament subdivided by style, such as: Decoration and ornament –Art deco Decoration and ornament –Art nouveau See also headings such as: Art nouveau (Architecture) See also auction houses, museums, galleries, and exhibitions as subject and/or organization such as: Armory Show (1913: New York, N.Y.) Exposition Internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925: Paris, France) Kennedy Gallery Salon (Exhibition) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. See also art and historical events such as: Communism and art France –History –Revolution, 1789-1799 –Art and the revolution Soviet Union –History –Revolution, 1917- 1921 –Art and the revolution Spain –History –Civil War, 1936-1939 --Art and the war World War, 1914-1918 –Art and the war World War, 1939-1945 –Art and the war Top of Page