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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Understanding Art History | |
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| Painted Caves and Giant Stones | |
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| Ancient Egypt and the Origins of Style | |
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| Palace Art in the Ancient Near East | |
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| Greek Art: Idealism Versus Realism | |
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| Rome: An Art Set in Concrete | |
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| Monotheism: Basilica, Mosque and Tomb | |
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| Dynamics of the Dark Age North | |
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| The Climax of Cathedral Art | |
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| The Rise of Creative Individualism Under Christianity | |
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| Rediscovery and Transformation of Graeco-Roman Culture | |
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| The Apotheosis of the Statue | |
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| The Great Masters of Italian Painting | |
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| The Roman Climax of Art and Its Confused Aftermath | |
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| The New Realism of the Seventeenth Century | |
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| The First Great Landscape Paintings | |
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| The Golden Century of Spanish Art | |
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| The Dutch Attain 'The Perfection of Professional Art' | |
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| Towns, Palaces, Churches, Gardens | |
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| Splendours and Mysteries of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Classical and Religious Revival | |
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| The Western Penetration of Asia: India, China, Japan and Their Art | |
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| The Watercolour and Its Global Spread | |
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| Romanticism and History | |
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| Painting the American World and Its Wonders | |
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| The Belated Arrival and Sombre Glories of Russian Art | |
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| The Internal Conflicts of Nineteenth-Century Art | |
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| Art and the Realities of the Industrialised World | |
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| Skyscrapers, Art Nouveau, Art Deco | |
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| The Beginnings of Fashion Art | |
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| The Resurgence of the Primitive | |
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| The Rule and Ravages of Ideological Art | |
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| The Dangers and Opportunities of Twenty-first-Century Art | |
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| Index | |
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| Picture Acknowledgements | |