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History of Western Art : With Core Concepts CD-ROM
ISBN: 9780072510386 | 0072510382
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
Pub. Date: 8/1/2000
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Appropriate for one-semester art history survey or historically-focused art appreciation classes, A History of Western Art offers online support, additional color plates, and a number of new text features in this third edition.
Now packaged with the free "History of Western Art Core Concepts CD-ROM," the text provides an excellent multimedia introduction to art techniques, elements, and research.
Now packaged with the free "History of Western Art Core Concepts CD-ROM," the text provides an excellent multimedia introduction to art techniques, elements, and research.
Chapter 1: Why Do We Study Art?
The Artistic Impulse
The Values of Art
Art and Illusion
Architecture
Archeology and Art History
Methodlogies of Art History
Chapter 2: The Language of the Visual
Composition
Plane
Balance
Line
Depth
Space
Shape
Light and Color
Texture
Stylistic Terminology
Chapter 3: Prehistoric Western Europe
The Stone Age
Paleolithic
Beyond the West: Rock Paintings ofAustralia
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chapter 4: The Ancient Near East
Neolithic Era
Mesopotamia
Anatolia: The Hittites
Iran
Chapter 5: Ancient Egypt
The Gift of the Nile
The Pharaohs
The Egyptian Concept of Kingship
The Palette of Narmer
The Old Kingdom
The Middle Kingdom
The New Kingdom
Tutankhamon’s Tomb
Chapter 6: The Aegean
Cycladic Civilization
Discoveries at Thera
Minoan Civilization
Mycenaean Civilization
Chapter 7: The Art of Ancient Greece
Cultural Identity
Government and Philosophy
Literature and Drama
“Man is the Measure of Things”
Painting and Pottery
Sculpture
Classical Architecture: TheAthenian Acropolis
Late Classical Style
Hellenistic Period
Chapter 8: The Art of the Etruscans
Architecture
Pottery and Sculpture
Women in Etruscan Art
Funerary Art
Chapter 9: Ancient Rome
Architectural Types
Sculptural Types
Mural Painting
Chapter 10: Early Christian and Byzantine Art
A New Religion
Constantine and Christianity
Early Christian Art
Justinian and the Byzantine Style
The Codex
Later Byzantine Developments
Chapter 11: The Early Middle Ages
Islamic Art
Northern European Art
Ottonian Period
Chapter 12: Romanesque Art
Economic and Political Development
Pilgrimage Roads
Architecture
Manuscripts
Mural Painting
The Bayeux Tapestry
Chapter 13: Gothic Art
Origins of the Gothic Style inFrance
Early Gothic Architecture:Saint-Denis
Elements of Gothic Architecture
Romanesque Precursors of Gothic
The Age of Cathedrals
Chartres
Later Developments of the FrenchGothic Style
English Gothic
Chapter 14: Precursors of the Renaissance
Thirteenth–Century Italy
Fourteenth–Century Italy
The International Gothic Style
Chapter 15: The Early Renaissance
Italy in the Fifteenth Century
Early Fifteenth–Century Painting
Early Fifteenth–Century Sculpture:Donatello’s <i>David</i>
Second–Generation Developments
Fifteenth–Century Painting in theNetherlands
Chapter 16: The High Renaissance in Italy
Architecture
Painting and Sculpture
Developments in Venice
Chapter 17: Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth–Century in Italy
Mannerism
Counter–Reformation Painting
Architecture: Andrea Palladio
Chapter 18: Sixteenth–Century Painting in Northern Europe
The Netherlands
Germany
Chapter 19: The Baroque Style in Western Europe
Baroque Style
Architecture
Sculpture: Gianlorenzo Bernini
Italian Baroque Painting
Baroque Painting in Northern Europe
Beyond the West: Mughal Art in theBaroque
Spanish Baroque Painting: DiegoVelázquez
French Baroque Painting: NicolasPoussin
Chapter 20: Rococo and the Eighteenth Century
Beyond the West: The Pagoda
The Age of Enlightenment
Rococo Painting
Rococo Architecture
Architectural Revivals
Bourgeois Realism: Jean-BaptisteChardin
American Painting
Chapter 21: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early NineteenthCenturies
The Neoclassical Style in France
Development in America
Chapter 22: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Romantic Trends in Architecture
Sculpture: François Rude
Painting
Chapter 23: Nineteenth-Century Realism
French Realist Painting
Photography
American Realist Painting
French Realism of the 1860s
Architecture
Chapter 24: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism
Painting in France
Beyond the West: Japanese WoodblockPrints
French Sculpture: Auguste Rodin
American Painting at the Turn ofthe Century
“Art of Art’s Sake”
Chapter 25: Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century
Post-Impressionist Painting
Beyond the West: Gaugin and Oceania
Symbolism
Naïve Painting: Henri Rousseau
Chapter 26: Turn of the Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, andMatisse
Fauvism
Expressionsim
Matisse
Chapter 27: Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth–Century DevelopmentsStyles
Cubism
Other Early Twentieth-CenturyDevelopments
Architecture
The International Style
Chapter 28: Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, and Abstraction
Dada
Surrealism
Sculpture Derived from Surrealism
The United States: Regionalism andSocial Realism
Mexico
Toward American Abstraction
Chapter 29: Abstract Expressionism
The Teachers: Hans Hoffman andJosef Albers
Abstract Expressionism
Action Painting
Color Field Painting
West Coast Abstraction: Richa5rdDiebenkorn
Sculpture
Chapter 30: Pop Art, Op Art , and Minimalism
Pop Art in England: RichardHamilton
Pop Art in the United States:Painting
Sculpture
Op Art
Minimalism
Action Sculpture: Joseph Beuys
Chapter 31: Innovation and Continuity
Return to Realism
Architecture
Environmental Art
Feminist Art
”Plus ça change…”
