About Amy Dempsey

Amy Dempsey is an art historian who studied at Hunter College in New York and received her doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Dempsey is the author of international bestseller Styles, Schools & Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art (2002 and 2010), the groundbreaking Destination Art (2006 and 2011), the first monograph on Alfio Bonanno (2020) and three titles in Thames & Hudson’s Art Essentials series: Modern Art (2018), Surrealism (2019) and Destination Art (2021).