Ism's

A link to a sampler of visual images sorted by school of thought.
Some of these ("Rococo, Greek Art, and American Scene...") are not isms.
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/styles/index.html

Click here to find out what Modernism means

"...when it comes to these cultural-intellectual eras, there is a pattern of oscillation between what I call the Apollonian type (order, symmetry, mind) and the Dionysian type (freedom, asymmetry, heart). Classicism and modernism were Apollonian; premodernism was Dionysian, and so is postmodernism. (Like the rounding off of the dates, these categories are very general.)"
http://www.next-wave.org/jan00/Postmodern_organization.htm

The following are literary and visual art "isms" from the past 125 years: or modern times. The list is the index of Manifesto, A Century of Isms, Ed. Mary Ann Caws. The dates are simply the dates of the essays included in this book. They are not exact cut-off dates for the ideas, although this text claims to include the important writings. Notice that some author's names appear under more than one aegis.