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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Power of Images Viewing Art as Language | |
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| Art and Its Codes | |
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| A Vocabulary Lesson | |
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| The Changing Face of Quality | |
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| The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Making Amends Plotting the Course | |
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| The Beginnings of Art | |
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| The Nature of Art Making Images in the Paleolithic Age | |
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| Securing the Homefront: The Neolithic Age | |
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| Prehistoric and Primitive Cultures Art and the Development of More Complex Societies | |
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| The Art of the Classical World | |
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| The Art and Ideas of Ancient Greece | |
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| The Origins of Greek Art: 1000 600 BC | |
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| Archaic Art: 600-480 BC | |
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| Classical Architecture and the Acropolis Complex | |
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| Classical Sculpture: 479-323 BC | |
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| Plato and Aristotle Look at Art Late Classical and Hellenistic Art | |
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| The Transition to Rome Augustus and the Empire Roman Wall Painting | |
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| Art and Religion | |
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| The Jewish Tradition | |
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| The Christian Tradition Islamic Art | |
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| Hinduism and the Cult of Images Aspects of the Buddhist Art | |
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| Tradition | |
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| Issues and Ideas in Renaissance Art | |
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| The Rise of Learning Individuality and Humanism Art | |
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| Patronage and the High Renaissance | |
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| The "High" Renaissance in Rome Art | |
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| Criticism in the Renaissance: Vasari Painting in Venice in the Sixteenth Century North European Painting | |
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| Art, Issues, and Innovations in the Baroque | |
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| Era "The Last Judgment" and Rome in 1541 Classicism versus Naturalism | |
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| The Art Criticism of Bellori Baroque Architecture | |
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| The Influence of Rome Dutch and Flemish Art | |
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| The Decline of the Baroque | |
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| Reason and Revolution Versailles and the Decline of the Baroque | |
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| The Rococo Moralizing Tones: Discourses on Art | |
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| The Birth of the Public Museum | |
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| The Neoclassical Artist American Neoclassicism Art and Man's Inhumanity to Man Art and the Heroic: Romanticism | |
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| The Modern World and Its Art | |
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| The Ideological Ferment Photography and Painting | |
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| The Artist at Mid-Century Impressionism | |
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| The Art of Lithography Nineteenth-Century Sculpture | |
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| The Liberation of Color Of Steel and Skyscrapers Nature in Flux | |
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| Art in Americas Art in the Nomadic Communities | |
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| Early Civilizations | |
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| Two Worlds Collide | |
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| The Early African-American Experience | |
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| A Reverence for the Land | |
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| The Artist as Social Critic | |
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| Art In the Twentieth Century Flatness as an Idea Collage as an Idea | |
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| Rethinking Another Old Idea Unlocking the Unconscious: Surrealism and Its Legacy | |
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| The Quest for a Purer Art Modernism in Architecture | |
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| The Avant-Garde in America | |
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| The End of an Era | |
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| Contemporary Art, Issues, and Ideas Prelude: Irony and The Decline of the Modern | |
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| Art after Pop: Some Considerations | |
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| The Rise of Postmodernism Neo-Expressionism and the Return of the Figure Women's Art and Feminist | |
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| Criticism Ethnicity and Revisionism | |
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| Some Closing Thoughts on Public | |
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| Funding and Censorship | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| All chapter summaries include suggested readings, pronunciation guide and glossary | |