Presents an overview that helps you make coherent sense of the often-bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques, and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art. This edition includes a new chapter on developments in contemporary art since 2000. It offers information on the evolution of art over the decades.

3rd edition. An accessible and truly global introduction to the art of the past five-and-a-half decades, now fully revised and updated, including a new final chapter.