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All about Art An Essential History

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ISBN-10: 0131954423

ISBN-13: 9780131954427

Edition: 3rd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Marilyn Stokstad

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List price: $110.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Prentice Hall Art
Publication date: 3/23/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 596
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 4.994
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgements
Use Notes
Starter Kit
Introduction
Art Before the Written Word
Looking Forward
Upper Paleolithic Art
Art in the Neolithic Period
Early Neolithic Communities
Architecture
Megalithic Architecture
Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe
Early Art Outside Europe
Closer Look: Woman from Brassempouy
Technique: Prehistoric Wall Painting
The Power of Naming
The Meaning(s) of Prehistoric Paintings
Timeline - Looking Back
The Art of Mesopotamia and Egypt
Looking Forward
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt
Old Kingdom
The Pyramid Complex
The Middle Kingdom
The New Kingdom
The Late Period
Closer Look: Mythological Figures, Bull Lyre
Elements of Architecture: Mastaba to Pyramid
Origins of Writing
The Fiber Arts
Egyptian Symbol
Mummies
Timeline - Looking Back
Early Asian Art
Looking Forward
The Indian Subcontinent
Gandhara and Mathura Styles
Gupta Period
Southeast Asia
Indonesia
China
Korea
Japan
Closer Look: Great Wild Goose Pagoda
Elements of Architecture: Stupas
Buddhism
Buddhist Symbols
Hinduism
Confucianism
The Silk Route and the Making of Silk
Calligraphy
Timeline - Looking Back
Art of Greece and the Aegean World
Looking Forward
The Cycladic Islands
Minoan Crete
Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) Civilization
The Emergence of Greek Civilization
The Geometric Style
The Archaic Period
The Early Classical or Transitional Period
The "Golden Age" of Art
The Parthenon
Other Buildings of the Athenian Acropolis
Late Classical Art of the Fourth Century BCE
Closer Look: Women at a Fountain House
Elements of Architecture: The Greek Architectural Orders
Mythology
Classic and Classical
The Canon of Polykleitos
Women Artists In Ancient Greece
Timeline - Looking Back
The Spread of Greek Art and Culture
Looking Forward
The Hellenistic Greeks
The Neo-Babylonians
The Persians
The Etruscans
Closer Look: Ishtar Gate
Elements of Architecture: Theaters
Technique: Coining Money
Aphrodite's Arms
Timeline - Looking Back
Roman Art
Looking Forward
The Republican Period
The Age of Augustus
The Roman House and its Decoration
The Empire
Imperial Art and Architecture
Portraits in Sculpture and Painting
The Late Empire
Closer Look: Augustus of Primaporta
Elements of Architecture: Arch and Vault
Elements of Architecture: Roman Architectural Orders
The Celts
Timeline - Looking Back
Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
Looking Forward
Jewish Art
Early Christianity
Early Byzantine Art
Icons and Iconoclasm
Later Byzantine Art
Ukraine and Russia
Closer Look: Good Shepherd mosaic
Elements of Architecture: Basilica-Plan and Central-Plan Churches
Elements of Architecture: Pendentives and Squinces
Iconography of the Life of Jesus
Saint Peter's, Notre-Dame, and Santa Maria Maggiore (Traditional Usage and Abbreviations)
The Depiction of Space
Christian Symbols
Timeline - Looking Back
Islamic Art
Looking Forward
Art During the Early Caliphates
Later Islamic Art
The Mughal Empire
The Ottoman Empire
Elements of Architecture: Mosque Plans
Technique: Carpet Making
Islam and the Prophet Muhammad
Timeline - Looking Back
Later Asian Art
Looking Forward
The South Asian Subcontinent
Rajput Painting
Cambodia
China
Japan
Korean Painting
Pictures of the Floating World
Closer Look: Luxury Arts
Technique: Formats of Chinese Painting
Indian Painting on Paper
Writing, Language, and Culture
Timeline - Looking Back
Early Medieval and Romanesque Art
Looking Forward
Early Medieval Art in the British Isles and Scandinavia
Carolingian Art
The Carolingian Basilica and Timber Architecture
The Monastery
Painting in Christian Spain
The Ottonian Period
The Romanesque Period
Architecture
Architectural Decoration: Sculpture and Painting
The Cloister Crafts
Closer Look: Reliquary statue of Saint Faith
Elements of Architecture: The Romanesque Church Portal
The Medieval Scriptorium
Timeline - Looking Back
Gothic Art
Looking Forward
Gothic Art in France
Secular Art
Gothic Art in England
Gothic Art in the Germanic Lands
Gothic Art in Italy
Sculpture
Italian Panel and Mural Painting
Closer Look: Cathedral of Notre-Dame
Elements of Architecture: Rib Vaulting
Elements of Architecture: Gothic Church
Technique: Stained-Glass Windows
Technique: Cennini on Panel Painting
Timeline - Looking Back
Early Renaissance Art
Looking Forward
Northern Renaissance Art
Second Generation Painters
Book and Tapestries
The Graphic Arts
Renaissance Art in Italy
Architecture
Sculpture
Painting
Closer Look: The Battle of San Romano
Technique: Painting on Panel
Technique: Woodcuts and Engravings
Technique: Renaissance Perspective Systems
Women Artists in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Timeline - Looking Back
Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation
Looking Forward
Italian Art
Venice and the Veneto
Mannerism
Italy
France
Mannerist Architecture
German Art
Painting and Prints
The Reformation and the Arts
Netherlandish and Spanish Art
Closer Look: Feast in the House of Levi
Elements of Architecture: Saint Peter's Basilica
Elements of Architecture: Parts of the Church Facade
The Vitruvian Man
The Sistine Ceiling Restoration
Women Patrons of the Arts
Timeline - Looking Back
Baroque and Rococo Art
Looking Forward
Art for the Counter-Reformation Church: Italy
Art in the Habsburg Empire
Spain
Flanders
Protestant England
The Protestant Netherlands
Art for the State: France
The Rococo Style
Art and Science
Closer Look: Allegory of Sight
Elements of Architecture: The Baroque Facade
Technique: Etching and Drypoint
Grading the Old Masters
Science and the Changing Worldview
Timeline - Looking Back
Art of the Americas
Looking Forward
Mesoamerica
The Olmecs
The Maya
Teotihuacan
The Aztecs
Central America
South America: The Central Andes
The Moche Culture
The Inca Empire
The Aftermath of the Spanish Conquest
North America
The Southeast
The Mound Builders
The Southwest
The Eastern Woodlands and the Great Plains
The Northwest Coast
Closer Look: Hamatsa Masks
Elements of Architecture: Inca Masonry
Technique: Basketry
Tineline - Looking Back
African Art
Looking Forward
African Art in the Modern Era: Living Traditions and New Trends
Art and the Spirit World
Art and Power
The Masquerade
Closer Look: Numumusow and West African Ceramics
The Myth of "Primitive" Art
African Furniture and the Art Deco Style
Timeline - Looking Back
Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism
Looking Forward
Neoclassicism and its Heritage
Portrait Painting
Moralized Genre Painting
Neoclassical Architecture in England and North America
Neoclassical Painting in France
Romanticism
Romantic Landscape Painting
Early Photography
Naturalism and Realism in Europe
Painting in the United States
Closer Look: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump
Closer Look: Gregorian Silver
Technique: How Photography Works
Art Academies in the Eighteenth Century
"Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"
Timeline - Looking Back
Later Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States
Looking Forward
Architecture
Academic Art
Naturalism
Reactions against the Academy
Art Nouveau
Art in the United States
Impressionism
Later Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Late-Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture
Closer Look: Place des Lices Saint-Tropez
Technique: Lithography
Artistic Allusions in Manet's Art
Japonisme
Tineline - Looking Back
Modern Art: Europe and North America in the Early Twentieth Century
Looking Forward
Early Modern Art in Europe
Expressionist Movements
Les Fauves
Die Brucke
Der Blaue Reiter
Cubism
Responses to Cubism
Orphism
Futurism
Suprematism
Dada
Modern Art Comes to the United States
Art Between the Wars
Europe
Constructivism
De Stijl
Surrealism
Sculpture
Art in North America
The United States
The Harlem Renaissance
Mexico
Canada
Architecture
Europe
The Bauhaus
Closer Look: Guernica
Elements of Architecture: The Skyscraper
Elements of Architecture: The International Style
Art Deco
Suppression of the Avant-Garde in Germany
Timeline - Looking Back
Art Since 1945
Looking Forward
The "Mainstream" Crosses the Atlantic
Assemblage
Pop Art
Minimalism/Post-Minimalism and Op Art
Conceptual and Performance Art
Earthworks and Site-Specific Art
Feminist Art
Late Modernism/Postmodernism
Neo-Expressionism
The Persistence of Modernism
Later Art with Social Impact
Installation and Electronic Art
American Craft Art
Architecture
Public Memory and Art: The Memorial
Closer Look: Homage to New York
The The Idea of the Mainstream
The High/Low Myth of Modernism
Appropriation
Deconstruction
Critical Theory
Timeline - Looking Back
Contemporary World Map
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Credits