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An authoritative, balanced, and enlightened account of the history of art, ranging from the primitive art of hunters 30,000 years ago to examples of the most controversial art forms of today. This book contains over 1400 superb illustrations, including color maps and architectural plans, enabling the reader to gain perspective of the global scope of this subject. Encompassing the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas, this book covers painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, and photography, as well as describing historical trends that influenced all trends in art from around the world. For those needing to gain perspective regarding the history of art in our world, including art gallery owners, art collectors, and those entering the field of graphic design and art production.

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
St... MOREyle 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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