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- ISBN: 9780131935075 | 0131935070
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/2006
This new edition is an authoritative and provides a balanced account of the history of art. It presents art history as an essential part of the development of humankind, encompassing the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas-spanning from the primitive art of hunters 30,000 years ago to the most controversial art forms of today.
Preface | p. 10 |
Introduction | p. 12 |
Art as Craft | p. 12 |
Systems of Building | p. 13 |
Sculptural Techniques and Materials | p. 13 |
Painting Techniques and Materials | p. 15 |
Print-making | p. 18 |
Photography | p. 18 |
Pictorial Representation | p. 19 |
Perspective | p. 19 |
Color | p. 21 |
Style and Individual Expression | p. 23 |
Context: Function and Meaning | p. 25 |
The Power of Images | p. 26 |
Women Artists | p. 28 |
The History of Art | p. 30 |
Foundations of Art | |
Before History | p. 34 |
Timechart | p. 34 |
The Art of Hunters | p. 35 |
Cave Art | p. 37 |
Mesolithic Art | p. 43 |
The Art of Farmers | p. 43 |
In Context Catal Huyuk: A Neolithic Town | p. 44 |
Neolithic Architecture | p. 47 |
Stonehenge | p. 48 |
The Early Civilizations | p. 50 |
Timechart | p. 50 |
Mesopotamia | p. 50 |
Sumer | p. 51 |
Akkadian Art | p. 55 |
Sources and Documents Gudea's Dream | p. 56 |
Ziggurats | p. 57 |
Babylon | p. 57 |
The Indus Valley | p. 58 |
Ancient Egypt | p. 62 |
Predynastic | p. 62 |
Early Dynastic | p. 63 |
Old Kingdom Architecture | p. 64 |
Sources and Documents Ancient Egytian Pyramid Texts | p. 67 |
Old Kingdom Sculpture and Painting | p. 68 |
Middle Kingdom | p. 72 |
The Aegean | p. 75 |
Minoan Crete | p. 76 |
Mycenae and the Mainland | p. 80 |
In Context The Homeric World | p. 84 |
China | p. 85 |
Shang Dynasty | p. 86 |
Developments Across the Continents | p. 90 |
Timechart | p. 90 |
The Hittites | p. 90 |
The Discovery of Iron | p. 93 |
The New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt | p. 93 |
Sources and Documents Thutmose Instructs his Vizier | p. 95 |
In Context Hatshepsut: Women in Ancient Egypt | p. 96 |
New Kingdom Architecture | p. 98 |
Akhenaten | p. 100 |
Ramesside Art | p. 103 |
Assyria and Babylon | p. 106 |
Narrative Relief | p. 108 |
Babylon | p. 110 |
Iran | p. 112 |
Achaemenid Art | p. 113 |
Persepolis | p. 114 |
Zhou China | p. 116 |
The Americas | p. 119 |
The Olmecs | p. 120 |
Peru | p. 122 |
In Context Chavin de Huantar: Religion and Society in Ancient Peru | p. 123 |
Africa: Nok Culture | p. 125 |
The Greeks and their Neighbours | p. 126 |
Timechart | p. 126 |
Archaic Greece | p. 127 |
The Male Nude | p. 131 |
The Polis | p. 135 |
The Classical Period | p. 136 |
The Parthenon | p. 136 |
Sources and Documents Pausanias on the Parthenon | p. 138 |
In Context The Delphi Charioteer: Ancient Greek Religion and Athletics | p. 144 |
Naturalism and Idealization | p. 148 |
Concepts The Ideal: Idealism, Proportion and the Canon | p. 149 |
Vase Painting | p. 153 |
Stelae | p. 155 |
The Late Classical Period | p. 156 |
Barbarian Alternatives: Scythians and the Animal Style | p. 159 |
Hallstatt and La Tene | p. 162 |
Iberia and Sardinia | p. 164 |
The Etruscans | p. 165 |
Sources and Documents Pliny on Etruscan Sculpture | p. 168 |
Hellenistic and Roman Art | p. 173 |
Timechart | p. 173 |
The Hellenistic Period | p. 175 |
Plato, Aristotle and the Arts | p. 177 |
Allegory | p. 181 |
Hellenistic Architecture | p. 183 |
Hellenistic and Roman Painting and Mosaics | p. 186 |
In Context Roman Luxury: Silver and Cameo Glass | p. 187 |
Sources and Documents Vitruvius on Roman Painting | p. 192 |
Roman Architecture | p. 193 |
Domestic Architecture | p. 193 |
Temples and Public Works | p. 195 |
Urban Development From Jericho to Imperial Rome: Grid Planning and Organic Growth | p. 196 |
The Colosseum and the Invention of Concrete | p. 199 |
The Pantheon | p. 201 |
Roman Sculpture | p. 203 |
Towards a Definition of Roman Art | p. 204 |
In Context Family Piety: The Roman Portrait Bust | p. 208 |
Late Antique Art | p. 215 |
Art and the World Religions | |
Buddhism, Hindusim and Far Eastern Art | p. 224 |
Timechart | p. 224 |
Buddhist Art in India | p. 227 |
In Context The Life of Buddha: Scriptures and Images | p. 230 |
The Image of Buddha | p. 232 |
Hindu Art in India | p. 238 |
Concepts The Divine: From Apollo to Vishnu | p. 241 |
In Context Ellora: An Architect Sculptor's Summit | p. 245 |
Sources and Documents Konarak Temple Building Accounts | p. 248 |
Buddhist and Hindu Art in Sri Lanka and Java | p. 252 |
Buddhist and Hindu Art on the South-east Asian Mainland | p. 258 |
Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist Art in China | p. 263 |
Han Dynasty | p. 263 |
In Context Confucius: Han Relief Carving | p. 266 |
Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties | p. 273 |
Song Dynasty | p. 276 |
Landscape Painting | p. 280 |
Shinto and Buddhist Art in Japan | p. 285 |
Sources and Documents The Nihongi and the First Buddhist Images in Japan | p. 286 |
The Heian, Fujiwara and Kamakura Periods (794-1333) | p. 290 |
Sources and Documents Lady Murasaki on Calligraphy | p. 293 |
Early Christian and Byzantine Art | p. 296 |
Timechart | p. 296 |
The Beginnings of Christian Art | p. 297 |
In Context The Catacombs: Early Christian Art | p. 300 |
From Domus Ecclesiae to the Christian Basilica | p. 302 |
The Image of Christ | p. 305 |
Sources and Documents Agnellus on S Apollinare Nuovo | p. 308 |
Ravenna | p. 311 |
Byzantine Art | p. 314 |
Ecclesiastical Architecture | p. 314 |
Urban Development Constantinople: The Creation of a Capital City | p. 316 |
Hagia Sophia | p. 318 |
The Classical Tradition | p. 321 |
Icons and Iconoclasts | p. 323 |
The Triumph of Orthodoxy | p. 324 |
In Context The Virgin: The First Images | p. 326 |
Christian Art in Northern Europe | p. 328 |
Interlace and Illumination | p. 329 |
Christian Art in Western Europe | p. 332 |
The Carolingian Renovatio | p. 333 |
Sources and Documents Einhard on the Palatine Chapel | p. 335 |
In Context Monasticism: East and West | p. 336 |
Developments in Christian Imagery | p. 337 |
Early Islamic Art | p. 341 |
Timechart | p. 341 |
Umayyad Art and Architecture | p. 344 |
Abbasid Art and Architecture | p. 349 |
Sources and Documents The Byzantine Ambassadors Visit Baghdad | p. 350 |
Islamic Spain | p. 353 |
Samanid and Seljuk Architecture | p. 356 |
In Context The Madrasa: Architecture for Education | p. 358 |
Islamic Decoration | p. 359 |
Sacred and Secular Art | |
Medieval Christendom | p. 364 |
Timechart | p. 364 |
Ottonian Art | p. 367 |
Romanesque Architecture in Italy | p. 370 |
Romanesque Art and Architecture in Northern Europe | p. 374 |
Innovations in Romanesque Architecture | p. 381 |
Gothic Art and Architecture | p. 383 |
Sources and Documents Abbot Suger Finds Columns and Beams for St-Denis | p. 384 |
In Context The Gothic Cathedral: The New Jerusalem | p. 386 |
High Gothic | p. 388 |
Stained Glass and Flying Buttresses | p. 390 |
Economics and Theology | p. 393 |
Sources and Documents Abbot Haymo and the 'Cult of the Carts' at Chartres | p. 393 |
Sculpture and Painting | p. 395 |
English and German Gothic | p. 397 |
Sources and Documents Piers Plowman on Stained Glass and Opus Anglicanum | p. 398 |
Italian Gothic | p. 400 |
In Context St Francis and St Clare | p. 402 |
Giotto | p. 409 |
Sources and Documents The Monks in Padua Complain about the Scrovegni Chapel | p. 411 |
Secular and International Gothic | p. 413 |
The Fifteenth Century in Europe | p. 422 |
Timechart | p. 422 |
The Beginnings of the Italian Renaissance | p. 423 |
Brunelleschi | p. 424 |
Masaccio | p. 426 |
'Progress' in Sculpture | p. 427 |
A New Style in Flanders | p. 430 |
Van Eyck and van der Weyden | p. 430 |
In Context The Ghent Altarpiece: Jan van Eyck and his Patrons | p. 432 |
Sources and Documents Bartolommeo Fazio on Jan van Eyck | p. 435 |
Architecture in Italy | p. 436 |
Alberti | p. 437 |
Sculpture in Italy | p. 439 |
Donatello | p. 439 |
New Departures | p. 440 |
Italian Painting and the Church | p. 444 |
Fra Angelico, Uccello and Piero della Francesca | p. 444 |
Sources and Documents Filippino Lippi and Folippo Strozzi: Financial and other Problems over the Strozzi Chapel | p. 449 |
Secular Painting | p. 450 |
Boticelli | p. 451 |
The Venetian Synthesis | p. 455 |
Mantegna and Bellini | p. 455 |
In Context Bellini and Carpaccio: Corporate Patronage in Renaissance Venice | p. 460 |
International Humanism | p. 461 |
Durer | p. 461 |
The Sixteenth Century in Europe | p. 464 |
Timechart | p. 464 |
Reform and Early Sixteenth-century Art in the North | p. 465 |
Hieronymus Bosch | p. 467 |
Grunewald | p. 468 |
Protestant Art | p. 470 |
The High Renaissance in Italy | p. 473 |
Leonardo da Vinci | p. 473 |
Harmony, Unity and Raphael | p. 476 |
In Context Bramante's Tempietto: Alberti, Leonardo and the Ideal Renaissance Church | p. 478 |
Michelangelo | p. 482 |
Sources and Documents Michelangelo's David: Contract and Installation | p. 482 |
Urban Development Renaissance Urbanism: The Rome of Sixtus V | p. 492 |
The Venetian High Renaissance | p. 495 |
Giorgione | p. 495 |
Titian | p. 496 |
Tintoretto and Veronese | p. 499 |
Sources and Documents Veronese's Interrogation by the Inquisition | p. 501 |
Sansovino, Palladio and the Laws of Harmony | p. 502 |
Mannerism and Mannerisms | p. 504 |
Coreggio and Mannerist 'Licence' | p. 504 |
Pieter Bruegel the Elder | p. 509 |
In Context Pieter Bruegel's Months: Patronage in Flanders | p. 510 |
El Greco | p. 512 |
The Americas, Africa And Asia | p. 514 |
Timechart | p. 514 |
Mesoamerica and Peru | p. 515 |
The Maya, Toltecs and Mixtecs | p. 517 |
The Aztecs | p. 521 |
Sources and Documents Cortes and Durer on Mexico and Montezuma's Treasure | p. 522 |
Africa | p. 524 |
Sources and Documents Dapper on Benin | p. 529 |
The Islamic World | p. 530 |
Ottoman Architecture | p. 533 |
Safavid Art and Architecture | p. 535 |
Urban Development Isfahan and Samarkand: Islamic Urban Design | p. 540 |
Mughal Art and Architecture | p. 542 |
In Context Nur-Jahan and Jahangir: Art at the Mughal Court | p. 546 |
Sources and Documents Domingo Paes on Vijayanagar | p. 550 |
China | p. 551 |
The Yuan Dynasty | p. 551 |
The Ming Dynasty | p. 555 |
Sources and Documents Dong Quichang on Painting: The Study of Nature and Old Masters | p. 562 |
Japan - Kamakura to Edo | p. 562 |
The Influence of Zen Buddhism | p. 565 |
In Context Namban Screens: The Japanese Encounter with Europeans | p. 570 |
The Seventeenth Century in Europe | p. 574 |
Timechart | p. 574 |
New Beginnings in Rome | p. 575 |
Concepts Nature, Imitation and Invention: The Formation of Academic Theory | p. 576 |
Baroque Art and Architecture | p. 579 |
Rubens and van Dyck | p. 580 |
In Context The Jesuit Missions: Evangelization and Colonization | p. 582 |
The Easel Painting in Italy | p. 585 |
Bernini | p. 587 |
Borromini | p. 591 |
Poussin and Claude | p. 592 |
Velasquez | p. 595 |
Sources and Documents Pacheco Art in the Service of Religion | p. 597 |
Dutch Painting | p. 598 |
Hals | p. 598 |
Rembrandt | p. 600 |
In Context Rembrandt's 'Hundred-guilder Print': The Development of Graphic Processes | p. 602 |
Landscape | p. 605 |
Still Life and Genre | p. 608 |
Vermeer | p. 609 |
England and France | p. 610 |
Enlightenment and Liberty | p. 614 |
Timechart | p. 614 |
French Rococo Art | p. 615 |
Watteau, de Troy and the Rococo Interior | p. 617 |
Boucher, Chardin and Fragonard | p. 619 |
Sources and Documents Diderot on Boucher, Greuze and Chardin | p. 620 |
In Context Fragonard and Greuze: Sex Objects and Virtuous Mothers | p. 622 |
The Rococo in Germany and Italy | p. 624 |
Tiepolo, Guardi and Canaletto | p. 626 |
English Sense and Sensibility | p. 629 |
Hogarth and Gainsborough | p. 629 |
Landscape and Classicism | p. 630 |
Neo-Classicism, or the 'True Style' | p. 635 |
Sources and Documents Washington and Jefferson: Antique versus Modern Dress | p. 636 |
Canova and David | p. 637 |
The Making of The Modern World | |
Romanticism to realism | p. 642 |
Timechart | p. 642 |
Urban Development Factories and Public Parks: Owen, Nash and Olmsted | p. 644 |
Romanticism | p. 646 |
The Heirs of David | p. 648 |
Goya | p. 650 |
Gericault | p. 652 |
Ingres | p. 653 |
Delacroix | p. 654 |
Sources and Documents Heine on Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People | p. 657 |
Romanticism and Philosophy | p. 657 |
Friedrich | p. 657 |
Blake | p. 658 |
Romantic Landscape Painting | p. 659 |
Constable | p. 659 |
Turner | p. 661 |
In Context Turner's Slave Ship: Images of Slavery | p. 662 |
Corot and the Etude | p. 664 |
Photography | p. 665 |
In which Style should We Build? | p. 668 |
Sources and Documents Pugin on the Principles of Christian Architecture | p. 670 |
Historicism and Realism | p. 671 |
The Pre-Raphaelites | p. 672 |
Courbet | p. 673 |
Concepts Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism versus Realism | p. 674 |
Millet | p. 675 |
Sources and Documents Baudelaire: 'What is the good of criticism?' | p. 676 |
Manet | p. 677 |
The USA | p. 680 |
In Context Caleb Bingham's Fur Traders: Art and the Frontier | p. 684 |
Photography comes of Age | p. 688 |
Eastern Traditions | p. 692 |
Timechart | p. 692 |
Oing-dynasty China | p. 693 |
In Context Wanh Huing and Others, Portrait of An Oi: Painters and Patrons under the Qing Dynasty | p. 695 |
Architecture and the Decorative Arts | p. 696 |
Japan in the Edo Period | p. 698 |
Hokusai and Hiroshige | p. 701 |
Sources and Documents Hokusai and Frank Lloyd Wright on the Japanese Print | p. 704 |
Impressionism to Post-Impressionism | p. 706 |
Timechart | p. 706 |
Impressionism | p. 707 |
Monet | p. 710 |
Sources and Documents Laforgue on Impressionism | p. 711 |
Morisot, Renoir and Manet | p. 711 |
In Context Degas and Manet: City Lights and the Exploitation of Women | p. 714 |
Degas | p. 716 |
Japonisme | p. 718 |
Neo-Impressionism | p. 721 |
Seurat, Divisionism and Socialism | p. 722 |
Symbolism | p. 723 |
Gaugin and Van Gogh | p. 724 |
Allegories of Modern Life: Munch and Rodin | p. 727 |
Art Nouveau and the New Architecture | p. 729 |
Sullivan and the Skyscraper | p. 731 |
In Context The Crystal Palace and the Statue of Liberty: Metal and New Building Methods | p. 732 |
Domestic Architecture | p. 734 |
Cezanne | p. 735 |
Sources and Documents Cezanne to Emile Bernard | p. 736 |
Indigenous Arts of Africa, The Americas, Australia and Oceania | p. 740 |
Timechart | p. 740 |
Oceania | p. 741 |
Polynesia | p. 742 |
Sources and Documents Captain Cook and the Arts of the Pacific | p. 745 |
Melanesia and Micronesia | p. 748 |
Australia | p. 750 |
The American North-West | p. 752 |
In Context A Shaman's Mask: Art and Magic | p. 754 |
The Plains and the Arid Lands of North America | p. 756 |
Africa | p. 758 |
In Context Palace Doors from Ikere: African Images of Europeans | p. 762 |
Twentieth-century Art | |
Art from 1900 to 1919 | p. 772 |
Timechart | p. 772 |
New Ways of Looking | p. 773 |
In Context Picasso's Demoiselles: Anarchism, Colonialism and Art as Exorcism | p. 776 |
The Fauves and Expressionism | p. 778 |
Matisse | p. 779 |
The German Expressionists | p. 780 |
Kandinsky | p. 783 |
Sources and Documents Kandinsky on Color | p. 784 |
Marc | p. 785 |
Cubism | p. 786 |
Picasso and Braque: Analytical and Synthetic Cubism | p. 786 |
Sources and Documents Braque and Picasso on Cubism | p. 789 |
Orphic Cubism | p. 793 |
Futurism | p. 794 |
Abstract or Non-objective Art | p. 797 |
Suprematism and the Founding of De Stijl | p. 797 |
Architecture | p. 799 |
Frank Lloyd Wright | p. 799 |
Between the Two World Wars | p. 801 |
Timechart | p. 801 |
Dada and Surrealism | p. 801 |
Duchamp | p. 803 |
America and the Precisionist View | p. 806 |
Diego Rivera and the Mexican Muralists | p. 808 |
Breton, de Chirico and Ernst | p. 809 |
In Context Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros: Art and Politics | p. 810 |
Sources and Documents Louis Aragon, Max Ernst and Others Issue a Surrealist Declaration | p. 812 |
Dali, Magritte and Miro | p. 813 |
Welded Metal: A Revolution in Sculpture | p. 816 |
Photography and Modern Movements | p. 818 |
Constructivism, De Stijl and the International Style | p. 821 |
Art and Revolution | p. 821 |
The Bauhaus | p. 823 |
Sources and Documents Walter Gropius on the Bauhaus | p. 823 |
Mondrian | p. 825 |
Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe | p. 827 |
Urban Development Cities of the Future: Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright | p. 828 |
Brancusi and Moore | p. 831 |
Art Deco | p. 832 |
Post-War to Post-Modern | p. 834 |
Timechart | p. 834 |
Abstract Expressionism | p. 835 |
Pollock and de Kooning | p. 837 |
Still, Rothko and Neuman | p. 839 |
European Survivors | p. 842 |
Post-Painterly Abstraction | p. 843 |
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg | p. 844 |
Concepts Modernism and Formalism | p. 845 |
Pop Art | p. 846 |
Photographic Imagery | p. 849 |
Minimal and Conceptual Art | p. 850 |
Earth and Land Art | p. 852 |
Photo-Realism and New Image Painting | p. 854 |
Body Art and Process Art | p. 856 |
Modernism and Post-Modernism | p. 857 |
Towards the Third Millennium | p. 862 |
Timechart | p. 862 |
Questioning Modernism | p. 864 |
Neo-Expressionism | p. 869 |
Art as Identity | p. 874 |
Post-Modern Multiculturalism | p. 880 |
Video Art | p. 887 |
Glossary | p. 888 |
For Further Reading | p. 901 |
Acknowledgements | p. 910 |
Index | p. 912 |
Maps | |
Prehistoric Europe and the Near East | |
The Ancient Near and Middle East | |
Ancient Egypt | |
The ancient Aegean | |
Ancient China | |
Ancient Asia Minor | |
Ancient Mesoamerica | |
Ancient Peru | |
Ancient Greece | |
Etruscan and Roman Italy | |
India | |
South-East Asia | |
The Byzantine World | |
The Islamic World | |
Western Europe and the Middle Ages | |
Renaissance Italy | |
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica | |
Africa | |
Japan | |
Oceania | |
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