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History of Western Art

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ISBN-10: 0072431148

ISBN-13: 9780072431148

Edition: 3rd 2001

Authors: Laurie Schneider Adams

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List price: $217.50
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 11/7/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 8.75" wide x 10.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 4.994
Language: English

Preface
Why Do We Study the History of Art?p. 1
The Language of Artp. 12
Prehistoric Western Europep. 21
The Ancient Near Eastp. 33
Ancient Egyptp. 47
The Aegeanp. 67
The Art of Ancient Greecep. 81
The Art of the Etruscansp. 115
Ancient Romep. 123
Early Christian and Byzantine Artp. 150
The Early Middle Agesp. 167
Romanesque Artp. 181
Gothic Artp. 195
Precursors of the Renaissancep. 218
The Early Renaissancep. 237
The High Renaissance in Italyp. 274
Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italyp. 302
Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europep. 314
The Baroque Style in Western Europep. 328
Rococo and the Eighteenth Centuryp. 358
Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuriesp. 374
Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuriesp. 386
Nineteenth-Century Realismp. 401
Nineteenth-Century Impressionismp. 421
Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Centuryp. 441
The Early Twentieth Century: Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matissep. 455
Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Stylesp. 466
Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Regionalism, and Abstractionp. 486
Abstract Expressionismp. 503
Pop Art, Op Art, and Minimalismp. 516
Innovation and Continuityp. 529
Glossaryp. 552
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes
Photo Credits
Index
List of Maps
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