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Visual Arts : A History

ISBN: 9780810935938 | 0810935937
Edition: 6th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date: 12/1/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
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.
Preface12(2)
Introduction14(1)
Art as Craft
15(1)
Systems of Building
... MORE(1)
Sculptural Techniques and Materials
15(2)
Painting Techniques and Materials
17(3)
Print-making
20(1)
Photography
20(1)
Pictorial Representation
21(1)
Perspective
21(2)
Color
23(2)
Style and Individual Expression
25(2)
Context: Function and Meaning
27(1)
The Power of Images
28(2)
Women Artists
30(2)
The History of Art
32(4)
Part One Foundations of Art
Before History
36(16)
The Art of the Hunters
37(2)
Cave Art
39(6)
Mesolithic Art
45(1)
The Art of Farmers
45(4)
Neolithic Architecture
49(1)
Stonehenge
50(2)
Timechart
36(10)
In Context Catal Huyuk: A Neolithic Town
46(6)
The Early Civilizations
52(40)
Mesopotamia
52(1)
Sumer
53(4)
Akkadian Art
57(2)
Ziggurats
59(1)
Babylon
59(1)
The Indus Valley
60(4)
Ancient Egypt
64(1)
Predynastic
64(1)
Early Dynastic
65(2)
Old Kingdom Architecture
67(3)
Old Kingdom Sculpture and Painting
70(4)
Middle Kingdom
74(3)
The Aegean
77(1)
Minoan Crete
78(4)
Mycenae and the Mainland
82(5)
China
87(1)
Shang Dynasty
88(4)
Timechart
52(6)
Sources and Documents Gudea's Dream
58(12)
Ancient Egytian Pyramid Texts
70(16)
In Context The Homeric World
86(6)
Developments Across the Continents
92(36)
The Hittites
92(3)
The Discovery of Iron
95(1)
The New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt
95(5)
New Kingdom Architecture
100(2)
Akhenaten
102(3)
Ramesside Art
105(2)
Assyria and Babylon
107(3)
Narrative Relief
110(2)
Babylon
112(2)
Iran
114(1)
Achaemenid Art
114(2)
Persepolis
116(2)
Zhou China
118(3)
The Americas
121(1)
The Olmecs
122(1)
Peru
123(4)
Africa: Nok Culture
127(1)
Timechart
92(5)
Sources and Documents Thutmosis Instructs his Vizier
97(1)
In Context Hatshepsut: Women in Ancient Egypt
98(27)
Chavin de Huantar: Religion and Society, in Ancient Peru
125(3)
The Greeks and Their Neighbours
128(49)
Archaic Greece
129(4)
The Male Nude
133(4)
The Polis
137(1)
The Classical Period
138(1)
The Parthenon
138(11)
Naturalism and Idealization
149(6)
Vase Painting
155(2)
Stelae
157(1)
The Late Classical Period
158(3)
Barbarian Alternatives: Scythians and the Animal Style
161(5)
Hallstatt and La Tene
166(2)
Iberia and Sardinia
168(1)
The Etruscans
169(8)
Timechart
128(12)
Sources and Documents Pausanias on the Parthenon
140(32)
Pliny on Etruscan Sculpture
172
In Context The Delphi Charioteer: Ancient Greek Religion and Athletics
146(5)
Concepts The Ideal: Idealism, Proportion and the `Canon'
151(11)
Urban Development Organic Growth and Urban Planning from Jericho to Athens
162(15)
Hellenistic and Roman Art
177(51)
The Hellenistic Period
179(2)
Plato, Aristotle and the Arts
181(4)
Allegory
185(2)
Hellenistic Architecture
187(3)
Hellenistic and Roman Painting and Mosaics
190(7)
Roman Architecture
197(1)
Domestic Architecture
198(1)
Temples and Public Works
199(4)
The Colosseum and the Invention of Concrete
203(2)
The Pantheon
205(2)
Roman Sculpture
207(1)
Towards a Definition of Roman Art
208(11)
Late Antique Art
219(9)
Timechart
177(18)
Sources and Documents Vitruvius on Roman Painting
195
In Context Roman Luxury: Silver and Cameo Glass
191(21)
Family Piety: The Roman Portrait Bust
212
Urban Development The Roman City: From the Republic to the Late Empire
200(28)
Part Two Art and the World Religions
Buddhism, Hinduism and Far Eastern Art
228(72)
Buddhist Art in India
231(5)
The Image of Buddha
236(6)
Hindu Art in India
242(14)
Buddhist and Hindu Art in Sri Lanka and Java
256(6)
Buddhist and Hindu Art on the South-east Asian Mainland
262(5)
Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist Art in China
267(1)
Han Dynasty
267(10)
Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties
277(3)
Song Dynasty
280(4)
Landscape Painting
284(5)
Shinto and Buddhist Art in Japan
289(5)
The Heian, Fujiwara and Kamakura Periods (794--1333)
294(6)
Timechart
228(23)
Sources and Documents Konarak Temple Building Accounts
251(40)
The Nihongi on the First Buddhist Images in Japan
291(6)
Lady Murasaki on Calligraphy
297
In Context The Life of the Buddha: Scriptures and Images
234(15)
Ellora: An Architect--Sculptor's Summit
249(21)
Confucius: Han Relief Carving
270
Concepts The Divine: From Apollo to Vishnu
245(55)
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
300(45)
The Beginnings of Christian Art
302(4)
From Domus Ecclesiae to the Christian Basilica
306(3)
The Image of Christ
309(6)
Ravenna
315(3)
Byzantine Art
318(1)
Ecclesiastical Architecture
318(4)
Hagia Sophia
322(3)
The Classical Tradition
325(2)
Icons and Iconoclasts
327(1)
The Triumph of Orthodoxy
328(4)
Christian Art in Northern Europe
332(2)
Interlace and Illumination
334(2)
Christian Art in Western Europe
336(2)
The Carolingian Renovatio
338(3)
Developments in Christian Imagery
341(4)
Timechart
300(12)
Sources and Documents Agnellus on S Apollinare Nuovo
312(27)
Einhard on the Palatine Chapel
339
In Context The Catacombs: Early Christian Art
304(26)
The Virgin: The First Images
330(10)
Monasticism: East and West
340
Urban Development Constantinople: The Creation of a Christian Imperial Capital City
320(25)
Early Islamic Art
345(23)
Umayyad Art and Architecture
348(5)
Abbasid Art and Architecture
353(4)
Islamic Spain
357(3)
Samanid and Seljuk Architecture
360(1)
Islamic Decoration
361(7)
Timechart
345(8)
Sources and Documents The Byzantine Ambassadors Visit Baghdad
353(9)
In Context The Madrasa: Architecture for Education
362(6)
Part Three Sacred and Secular Art
Medieval Christendom
368(60)
Ottonian Art
371(3)
Romanesque Architecture in Italy
374(4)
Romanesque Art and Architecture in Northern Europe
378(7)
Innovations in Romanesque Architecture
385(2)
Gothic Art and Architecture
387(5)
High Gothic
392(4)
Stained Glass and Flying Buttresses
396(3)
Economics and Theology
399(2)
Sculpture and Painting
401(2)
English and German Gothic
403(3)
Italian Gothic
406(9)
Giotto
415(5)
Secular and International Gothic
420(8)
Timechart
368(20)
Sources and Documents Abbot Suger Finds Columns and Beams for St-Denis
388(11)
Abbot Haymo and the `Cult of the Carts' at Chartres
399(5)
Piers Plowman on Stained Glass and Opus Anglicanum
404(13)
The Monks in Padua Complain about the Scrovegni Chapel
417
In Context The Gothic Cathedral: The New Jerusalem
390(18)
St Francis and St Clare
408
Urban Development Medieval Towns: Commercial Prosperity and Civic Pride
394(34)
The Fifteenth Century in Europe
428(42)
The Beginnings of the Italian Renaissance
430(1)
Brunelleschi
430(2)
Masaccio
432(1)
`Progress' in Sculpture
433(3)
A New Style in Flanders
436(1)
Van Eyck and van der Weyden
436(5)
Architecture in Italy
441(2)
Alberti
443(2)
Sculpture in Italy
445(1)
Donatello
445(1)
New Departures
446(3)
Italian Painting and the Church
449(1)
Fra Angelico, Uccello and Piero della Francesca
450(6)
Secular Painting
456(1)
Botticelli
457(4)
The Venetian Synthesis
461(1)
Mantegna and Bellini
461(3)
International Humanism
464(3)
Durer
467(3)
Timechart
428(13)
Sources and Documents Bartolommeo Fazio on Jan van Eyck
441(14)
Filippino Lippi and Folippo Strozzi: Financial and other Problems over the Strozzi Chapel
455
In Context The Ghent Altarpiece: Jan van Eyck and his Patrons
438(28)
Bellini and Carpaccio: Corporate Patronage in Renaissance Venice
466(4)
The Sixteenth Century in Europe
470(50)
Reform and Early Sixteenth-century Art in the North
471(2)
Hieronymus Bosch
473(1)
Grunewald
474(2)
Protestant Art
476(3)
The High Renaissance in Italy
479(1)
Leonardo da Vinci
479(3)
Harmony, Unity and Raphael
482(6)
Michelangelo
488(12)
The Venetian High Renaissance
500(1)
Giorgione
501(1)
Titian
502(3)
Tintoretto and Veronese
505(1)
Sansovino, Palladio and the Laws of Harmony
506(4)
Mannerism and Mannerisms
510(1)
Coreggio and Mannerist `Licence'
510(5)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
515(3)
El Greco
518(2)
Timechart
470(18)
Sources and Documents Michelangelo's David: Contract and Installation
488(19)
Veronese's Interrogation by the Inquisition
507
In Context Bramante's Tempietto: Alberti, Leonardo and the Ideal Renaissance Church
484(32)
Pieter Bruegel's Months: Patronage in Flanders
516
Urban Development Renaissance Urbanism: The Rome of Sixtus V
498(22)
The Americas, Africa and Asia
520(60)
Mesoamerica and Peru
521(2)
The Maya, Toltecs and Mixtecs
523(4)
The Aztecs
527(1)
The Incas
528(2)
Africa
530(6)
The Islamic World
536(4)
Ottoman Architecture
540(1)
Safavid Art and Architecture
541(7)
Mughal Art and Architecture
548(9)
China
557(1)
The Yuan Dynasty
557(4)
The Ming Dynasty
561(7)
Japan -- Kamakura to Edo
568(2)
The Influence of Zen Buddhism
570(10)
Timechart
520(8)
Sources and Documents Cortes and Durer on Mexico and Montezuma's Treasure
528(7)
Dapper on Benin
535(21)
Domingo Paes on Vijayanagar
556(12)
Dong Quichang on Painting: The Study of Nature and Old Masters
568
In Context Nur-Jahan and Jahangir: Art at the Mughal Court
552(24)
Namban Screens: The Japanese Encounter with Europeans
576
Urban Development Isfahan and Samarkand: Islamic Urban Design
546(34)
The Seventeenth Century in Europe
580(40)
New Beginnings in Rome
581(4)
Baroque Art and Architecture
585(1)
Rubens and van Dyck
585(6)
The Easel Painting in Italy
591(2)
Bernini
593(3)
Borromini
596(2)
Poussin and Claude
598(3)
Velasquez
601(3)
Dutch Painting
604(1)
Hals
604(1)
Rembrandt
605(6)
Landscape
611(2)
Still Life and Genre
613(2)
Vermeer
615(1)
England and France
616(4)
Timechart
580(23)
Sources and Documents Pacheco on Art in the Service of Religion
603
In Context The Jesuit Missions: Evangelization and Colonization
588(20)
Rembrandt's `Hundred-guilder Print': The Development of Graphic Processes
608
Concepts Nature, Imitation and Invention: The Formation of Academic Theory
582(38)
Enlightenment and Liberty
620(28)
French Rococo Art
621(2)
Watteau, de Troy and the Rococo Interior
623(2)
Boucher, Chardin and Fragonard
625(5)
The Rococo in Germany and Italy
630(2)
Tiepolo, Guardi and Canaletto
632(3)
English Sense and Sensibility
635(1)
Hogarth and Gainsborough
635(1)
Landscape and Classicism
636(4)
Neo-Classicism, or the `True Style'
640(3)
Canova and David
643(5)
Timechart
620(6)
Sources and Documents Diderot on Boucher, Greuze and Chardin
626(16)
Washington and Jefferson: Antique versus Modern Dress
642
In Context Fragonard and Greuze: Sex Objects and Virtuous Mothers
628(20)
Part Four The Making of the Modern World
Romanticism to Realism
648(50)
Romanticism
652(2)
The Heirs of David
654(2)
Goya
656(2)
Gericault
658(1)
Ingres
659(1)
Delacroix
660(3)
Romanticism and Philosophy
663(1)
Friedrich
663(1)
Blake
664(1)
Romantic Landscape Painting
665(1)
Constable
665(1)
Turner
666(4)
Corot and the Etude
670(1)
Photography
671(3)
In which Style should We Build?
674(3)
Historicism and Realism
677(1)
The Pre-Raphaelites
678(1)
Courbet
678(3)
Millet
681(1)
Manet
682(4)
The USA
686(7)
Photography comes of Age
693(5)
Timechart
648(15)
Sources and Documents Heine on Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
663(13)
Pugin on the Principles of Christian Architecture
676(6)
Baudelaire: `What is the good of criticism?'
682
In Context Turner's Slave Ship: Images of Slavery
668(22)
Caleb Bingham's Fur Traders: Art and the Frontier
690
Concepts Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism versus Realism
680
Urban Development Factories and Public Parks: Owen, Nash and Olmsted
650(48)
Eastern Traditions
698(14)
Qing-dynasty China
699(3)
Architecture and the Decorative Arts
702(2)
Japan in the Edo Period
704(3)
Hokusai and Hiroshige
707(5)
Timechart
698(12)
Sources and Documents Hokusai and Frank Lloyd Wright on the Japanese Print
710
In Context Wang Hui and Others, Portrait of An Qi: Painters and Patrons under the Qing Dynasty
701(11)
Impressionism to Post-Impressionism
712(34)
Impressionism
713(3)
Monet
716(1)
Morisot, Renoir and Manet
717(5)
Degas
722(2)
Japonisme
724(3)
Neo-Impressionism
727(1)
Seurat, Divisionism and Socialism
728(1)
Symbolism
729(1)
Gaugin and van Gogh
730(3)
Allegories of Modern Life: Munch and Rodin
733(2)
Art Nouveau and the New Architecture
735(2)
Sullivan and the Skyscraper
737(3)
Domestic Architecture
740(1)
Cezanne
741(5)
Timechart
712(5)
Sources and Documents Laforgue on Impressionism
717(25)
Cezanne to Emile Bernard
742
In Context Degas and Manet: City Lights and the Exploitation of Women
720(18)
The Crystal Palace and the Statue of Liberty: Metal and New Building Methods
738(8)
Indigenous Arts of Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania
746(34)
Oceania
748(1)
Polynesia
748(6)
Melanesia and Micronesia
754(2)
Australia
756(2)
The North American North-West Coast
758(4)
The Plains and the Arid Lands of North America
762(2)
Africa
764(16)
Timechart
746(5)
Sources and Documents Captain Cook and the Arts of the Pacific
751(9)
In Context A Shaman's Mask: Art and the Supernatural
760(8)
A Complex Legacy: The European Presence in African Art
768(12)
Part Five Twentieth-Century Art
Art from 1900 to 1919
780(29)
New Ways of Looking
781(5)
The Fauves and Expressionism
786(1)
Matisse
787(1)
The German Expressionists
788(3)
Kandinsky
791(2)
Marc
793(1)
Cubism
794(1)
Picasso and Braque: Analytical and Synthetic Cubism
794(7)
Orphic Cubism
801(1)
Futurism
802(3)
Abstract or Non-Objective Art
805(1)
Suprematism and the Founding of De Stijl
805(2)
Architecture
807(1)
Frank Lloyd Wright
807(2)
Timechart
780(12)
Sources and Documents Kandinsky on Color
792(5)
Braque and Picasso on Cubism
797
In Context Picasso's Demoiselles: Anarchism, Colonialism and Art as Exorcism
784(25)
Between the Two World Wars
809(33)
Dada and Surrealism
810(1)
Duchamp
811(3)
America and the Precisionist View
814(2)
Diego Rivera and the Mexican Muralists
816(1)
Breton, de Chirico and Ernst
817(4)
Dali, Magritte and Miro
821(3)
Welded Metal: A Revolution in Sculpture
824(2)
Photography and Modern Movements
826(3)
Constructivism, De Stijl and the International Style
829(1)
Art and Revolution
829(2)
The Bauhaus
831(2)
Mondrian
833(2)
Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe
835(4)
Brancusi and Moore
839(1)
Art Deco
840(2)
Timechart
809(22)
Sources and Documents Walter Gropius on the Bauhaus
831
Louis Aragon, Max Ernst and Others Issue a Surrealist Declaration
820
In Context Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros: Art and Politics
818(18)
Urban Development Cities of the Future: Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright
836(6)
Post-War to Post-Modern
842(28)
Abstract Expressionism
843(2)
Pollock and de Kooning
845(2)
Still, Rothko and Neuman
847(3)
European Survivors
850(1)
Post-Painterly Abstraction
851(1)
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg
852(2)
Pop Art
854(3)
Photographic Imagery
857(1)
Minimal and Conceptual Art
858(1)
Earth and Land Art
859(2)
Photo-Realism and New Image Painting
861(2)
Body Art and Process Art
863(2)
Modernism and Post-Modernism
865(5)
Timechart
842(11)
Concepts Modernism and Formalism
853(17)
Continuity and Change: The Twilight of the Second Millennium
870(50)
Questioning Modernism
872(5)
Neo-Expressionism
877(5)
Art as Identity
882(6)
Post-Modern Multiculturalism
888(7)
Video Art
895(1)
Michael Archer: The Post-Medium Condition
896(2)
Photography and the Construction of Reality
898(4)
Abjection
902(2)
Function and Value
904(1)
Artspaces
905(5)
History Painting
910(3)
Politics and Memory
913(2)
Globalization
915(2)
Spectacle
917(3)
Timechart
870(38)
Urban Development Berlin and its International Building Exhibitions
908(12)
Glossary920(12)
For Further Reading932(10)
Index942(16)
Picture Credits958

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