- Now completely revised and updated, this new edition collects documents and insightfully analyses the birth, development and decline of the 20th-century artistic movements, art styles, artists from the famous to the obscure in Italy and abroad up to nowadays. The text has been extensively expanded with new material and images. It functions as a small dictionary-guide, a helpful manual for approaching the art world of our time and a very useful reference source for lovers of contemporary art and the public at large.