The Visual Arts A History, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780205665358 | 0205665357
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 1/5/2009
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Hailed as the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey published in a single volume, this new revised edition is an authoritative and enlightened 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. The text is beautifully and generously illustrated with over 1,400 superb photographs, including architectural plans... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Art as Craft Systems of Building Sculptural Techniques and Materials Painting | |
| Techniques and Materials | |
| Print-making Photography | |
| Pictorial Representation Perspective Color | |
| Style and Individual Expression | |
| The Power of Images Women Artists | |
| The History of Art | |
| Foundations of Art | |
| Before Histor... MORE | |
| The Art of the Hunters | |
| Cave Art | |
| Mesolithic Art | |
| The Art of Farmers Neolithic | |
| Architecture Stonehenge | |
| The Early Civilizations | |
| Mesopotamia Sumer Akkadian Art | |
| Ziggurats Babylon | |
| The Indus Valley Ancient Egypt Predynastic | |
| Early Dynastic Old Kingdom Architecture | |
| Old Kingdom Sculpture and Painting Middle Kingdom | |
| The Aegean Minoan Crete Mycenae and the Mainland China Shang Dynasty | |
| Developments Across the Continents | |
| The Hittites | |
| The Discovery of Iron | |
| The New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt | |
| New Kingdom Architecture Akhenaten Ramesside Art Assyria and Babylon Narrative Relief | |
| Babylon Iran Archaemenid Art | |
| Persepolis Zhou China The Americas | |
| The Olmecs Peru Africa: Nok Culture | |
| The Greeks and their Neighbors | |
| Archaic Greece | |
| The Male Nude | |
| The Polis | |
| The Classical Period | |
| The Parthenon Naturalism and Idealization Vase Painting Stelae | |
| The Late Classical Period | |
| Barbarian Alternatives: Scythians and the Animal Style Hallstatt and La Tegrave;ne | |
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