Here's a fun, unusual art reference, nicely produced with several hundred good, page-size reproductions. What's unusual is the arrangement. Extended, in-depth essays on modern art, on painting techniques, and on world art precede a section of timelines. Then, about 25 art movements are profiled in one-page entries consisting of a representative painting and a few paragraphs of text. Finally, arranged alphabetically by name, similar profiles of about 50 individual artists, traditional and modernist and from all parts of the world, each include a painting and a capsule summary. So, browsers can have a ball with the visual impact of a painting by post Impressionist Toulouse-Lautrec juxtaposed with one by Australian Aborigini painter Tjapaltjarri, for example. Art historian and general editor Belton is affiliated with Okanagan University College in British Columbia. Christopher Rothko (son of artist Mark Rothko) provides the foreword. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less