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| Introduction | |
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| Mankind in the Looking Glass: Art History 101 | |
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| Art Tour through the Ages | |
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| Why People Make Art and What It All Means | |
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| The Major Artistic Periods and Movements | |
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| From Caves to Colosseum: Ancient Art | |
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| Magical Hunters and Psychedelic Cave Artists | |
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| Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art | |
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| One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art | |
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| Greek Art, the Olympian Ego, and the Inventors of the Modern World | |
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| Etruscan and Roman Art: It's All Greek to Me! | |
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| Art after the Fall of Rome: a.d. 500-a.d. 1760 | |
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| The Graven Image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art | |
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| Mystics, Marauders, and Manuscripts: Medieval Art | |
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| Born-Again Culture: The Early and High Renaissance | |
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| Venetian Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North | |
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| Art That'll Stretch Your Neck: Mannerism | |
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| When the Renaissance Went Baroque | |
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| Going Loco with Rococo | |
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| The Industrial Revolution and Artistic Devolution: 1760-1900 | |
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| All Roads Lead Back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical Art | |
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| Romanticism: Reaching Within and Acting Out | |
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| What You See Is What You Get: Realism | |
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| First Impressions: Impressionism | |
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| Making Their Own Impression: The Post-Impressionists | |
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| Twentieth-Century Art and Beyond | |
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| From Fauvism to Expressionism | |
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| Cubist Puzzles and Finding the Fast Lane with the Futurists | |
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| What You See Is What You Don't Get: From Nonobjective Art to Abstract Expressionism | |
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| Anything-Goes Art: Fab Fifties and Psychedelic Sixties | |
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| Photography: From a Science to an Art | |
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| The New World: Postmodern Art | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Must-See Art Museums | |
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| Ten Great Books by Ten Great Artists | |
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| Ten Brushstrokes That Shook the World | |
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| Appendix: Online Resources | |
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| Index | |