The ideal museum and gallery companionEyewitness Companion Guide: ArtBy Robert CummingPublication Date: 1st September 2005 Price: £16.99From the fundamental models of Classical Art through the Renaissance and the Romantic eras to the controversial artists of today, this pocket-sized guide presents a new way of seeing and interpreting paintings and sculpture in a gallery or museum context.The guide is divided into eras from Classicism to Conceptual Art. Within each era, movements and schools - and the artists associated with them, are analysed in detail. Robert Cumming introduces each movement with an illustrated overview defining its characteristics, stylistic trademarks and favoured subjects along with an exemplary painting for each major era, reproduced on a double-page spread, where its style and composition are explained in detail. Chronologically ordered profiles of the artists follow, accompanied by one or two key works in which the author explores their subject matter and meaning, setting, form, technique and purpose, social and historical context and provides a vocabulary with which to view, interpret and discuss them.The guide concludes with an essential glossary of the critical and technical terms and jargon used in art history as well as definitions of styles and movements.Concise and portable, this guide is a must for all those who appreciate art.

Robert Cumming, currently chairman of Christie's education, is also an art critic, lecturer, exhibition curator, TV presenter and best selling writer on art including DK's Annotated Art and Great Artists.For further information or to request review copies please contact Tara Costello on 0207 010 3591 or tara.costello@dk.com.