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From the Book - Eighth edition
Part one: The ancient world. 1. Prehistoric art. Paleolithic art
Neolithic art
2. Ancient Near Eastern Art. Sumerian art
Art of Akkad
Babylonian art
Assyrian art
Late Babylonian art
Regional Near Eastern art
Iranian art
3. Egyptian art. Predynastic and early dynastic art
The old kingdom: A golden age
The middle kingdom: Reasserting tradition through the arts
The new kingdom: Restored glory
Akhenaten and the amarna style
Papyrus scrolls: The book of the dead
Late Egypt
4. Aegean art. Early Cycladic art
Minoan art
Mycenaean art
5. Greek art. The emergence of Greek art: The geometric style
The orientalizing style: Horizons expand
Archaic art: Art of the city-state
Stone sculpture
The classical age
The late classical period
The age of Alexander and the Hellenistic period
6. Etruscan art. Funerary art
Architecture
Sculpture
7. Roman art. Early Rome and the republic
New direct6ions in architecture
The early empire
The late empire
Part two: The middle ages. 8. Early Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine art. Early Jewish art
Early Christian art
Byzantine art
9. Islamic art. The formation of Islamic art
The development of Islamic style
Islamic art and the Persian inheritance
The classical age
Later classical art and architecture
The three late empires
Continuity and change in Islamic art
10. Early medieval art. Anglo-Saxon art
Hiberno-Saxon art
Viking art
Carolingian art
Ottonian art
11. Romanesque art. First expressions of romanesque style
Mature romanesque
Other regional variants of romanesque
12. Gothic art. Early gothic art in France
High gothic art in France
Rayonnant or court style
Late gothic art in France
The spread of gothic art
Part three: The Renaissance through rococo. 13. Art in thirteenth- and fourtheenth-century Italy. The growth of the mendicant orders and the visual arts in Italy
Painting in Tuscany
Northern Italy
14. Artistic innovations in fifteenth-century Northern Europe. Courtly art: The international gothic
Urban centers and the new art
Late fifteenth-century art in the Netherlands
Regional responses to the early Netherlandish style
Printing and the graphic arts
15. The early Renaissance in fifteenth-century Italy. Florence in the fifteenth century
Domestic life: Palaces, furnishings, and paintings in medicean Florence
16. The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520. The high renaissance in Florence and Milan
Rome resurgent
Venice
17. The late renaissance and mannerism in sixteenth-century Italy. Late renaissance Florence: The church, the court, and mannerism
Rome reformed
Northern Italy: Ducal courts and urban centers
Parma and Cremona
Venice: The serene republic
18. Renaissance and reformation in sixteenth-century Northern Europe. France: Courtly tastes for Italian forms
Spain: Global power and religious orthodoxy
Central Europe: The reformation and art
England: Reformation and power
The Netherlands: World marketplace
19. The baroque in Italy and Spain. Painting in Italy
Architecture in Italy
Sculpture in Italy
Painting in Spain
20. The baroque in the Netherlands. Flanders
The Dutch republic
The market: Landscape, still-life, and genre painting
21. The baroque in France and England. France: The style of Louis XIV
Baroque architecture in England
22. The rococo. France: The rise of the rococo
The rococo in Western Europe outside France
The rococo in central Europe
Part four: The modern world. Art in the age of enlightenment, 1750-1789. Rome toward 1760: The font of neoclassicism
Romanticism in Rome: Piranesi neoclassicism in Britain
Early romanticism in Britain
Neoclassicism in France
Italian neoclassicism toward 1785
24. Art in the age of Romanticism, 1789-1848. Painting
Romantic sculpture
Romantic revivals in architecture
25. The age of positivism: Realism, impressionism, and the pre-Raphaelites, 1848-1885. Realism in France
British realism
Realism in America
Photography: A mechanical medium for mass-produced art
Architecture and the industrial revolution
26. Progress and its discontents: Post-impressionism, symbolism, and art nouveau, 1880-1905. Post-impressionism
Symbolism
Art nouveau and the search for modern design
American architecture: The Chicago school
Photography and the advent of film
27. Toward abstraction: The modernist revolution, 1904-1914. Fauvism
Cubism
The impact of fauvism and cubism
Marcel Duchamp and the advent of an art of ideas
Constantin Brancusi and the birth of modernist sculpture
American art
Early modern architecture in Europe
28. Art between the wars. Dada
Surrealism
Organic sculpture of the 1930's
Creating utopias
Art in American: Modernity, spirituality, and regionalism
Mexican art: Seeking a national identity
The eve of world war II
29. Postwar to postmodern, 1945-1980. Existentialism in New York: Abstract expressionism
Existentialism in Europe: Figural expressionism
Rejecting abstract expressionism: American art of the 1950's and 1960's
Formalist abstraction of the 1950's and 1960's
The pluralist 1970's: Post-minimalism
Art with a social agenda
Late modernist architecture
30. The postmodern era: Art since 1980. Architecture
Postminimalism and pluralism: Limitless possibilities in fine art
Appropriation art: Deconstructing images
Multiculturalism and political art
Global art
Glossary
Books for further reading
Index
Credits
From the Book - 7th ed.
v. 1
The ancient world. Prehistoric art ; Ancient Near Eastern art ; Egyptian art ; Aegean art ; Greek art ; Etruscan art ; Roman art.
The Middle Ages. Early Christian and Byzantine art ; Islamic art ; Early Medieval art ; Romanesque art ; Gothic art ; Art in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy.
v. 2
The Renaissance through the Rococo. Art in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy ; Artistic innovations in fifteenth-century Northern Europe ; The early Renaissance in fifteenth-century Italy ; The high Renaissance in Italy ; The late Renaissance and Mannerism in sixteenth-century Italy ; Renaissance and Reformation in sixteenth-century Northern Europe ; The Baroque in Italy and Spain ; The Baroque in the Netherlands ; The Baroque in France and England ; The Rococo.
The modern world. Art in the age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789 ; Art in the age of Romanticism, 1789-1848 ; The age of positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848-1885 ; Progress and its discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905 ; Toward abstraction: the Modernist revolution, 1904-1914 ; Art between the wars ; Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980 ; The Postmodern era: art since 1980.
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