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Foreword | |
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Introduction | |
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Appreciating Art | |
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What Is Art? | |
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Toward a Definition of Art | |
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Levels of art | |
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The constant in art | |
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How to Recognize Good Art | |
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How to Appreciate Art Without an Advanced Degree | |
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The Key to Being a Connoisseur | |
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Distinguishing the good from the bad | |
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Examining the real thing | |
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Keeping your eye in tune | |
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How to Visit a Museum the Way the Pros Do | |
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Doing What the Pros Do | |
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Get a postcard | |
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Make a "wish list" | |
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Look at what you don't like | |
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Become a member of the museum | |
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Listen to some music | |
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Dress code | |
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A final plea | |
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Art through the Ages | |
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Prehistoric Art (More Sophisticated Than You Would Believe) | |
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Prehistoric Cave Art | |
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Altamira | |
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Lascaux | |
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Chauvet | |
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Art Leaves the Caves | |
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The Ancient World: Still the Most Exciting | |
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The Ancient Near East | |
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Mesopotamia (Iraq) | |
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Anatolia (Turkey) | |
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Persia (Iran) | |
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Egypt, the True Grandmother of the Fine Arts | |
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The character of Egyptian art | |
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Where to see Egyptian art | |
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The best of Egyptian art | |
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The Glory That Was Greece | |
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Portraying the figure | |
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The Temple of Apollo at Olympia | |
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More figures from the 5th century | |
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The Hellenistic period | |
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The Art of Rome | |
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Etruscan influences | |
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Discovering Roman art | |
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Pompeii and Herculaneum | |
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Roman silverworking | |
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Christian influences | |
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Medieval Art (Definitely Not the Dark Ages) | |
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Early Christian Art | |
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The early Christian "look" | |
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The rise of the mosaic as a medium | |
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The early Christian style in Rome | |
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The apogee of early Christian art | |
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The "Dark Ages" | |
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The Lindisfarne Gospels | |
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The Book of Kells | |
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The decline of the "Dark Ages" | |
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The Romanesque | |
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Gislebertus | |
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Master Hugo | |
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Pinpointing the greatest Romanesque works | |
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The Gothic | |
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The International Style | |
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Byzantine Art | |
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Macedonian Renaissance | |
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Late Byzantine Art | |
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The Renaissance and Revivals | |
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Renascences | |
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The Italian Proto-Renaissance | |
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Italian Early Renaissance | |
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Brunelleschi | |
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Masaccio | |
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Donatello | |
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Ghiberti | |
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Piero della Francesca | |
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Alberti | |
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Andrea Mantegna | |
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Sandro Botticelli | |
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Italian High Renaissance | |
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Leonardo da Vinci | |
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Raphael | |
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Andrea Palladio | |
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Giorgione | |
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Titian | |
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Correggio | |
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Michelangelo | |
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The Northern European "Renaissance" | |
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The Grandeur of the Northern Renaissance | |
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Robert Campin | |
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Jan van Eyck | |
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Rogier van der Weyden | |
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Hugo van der Goes | |
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Hieronymus Bosch | |
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Pieter Breughel the Elder | |
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Hans Holbein the Younger | |
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Matthias Grunewald | |
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Albrecht Durer | |
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Northern Sculpture | |
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Viet Stoss | |
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Tilman Riemenschneider | |
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Mannerism: Sensuality and the Bizarre | |
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The Real and the Invented Mannerism | |
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Jacopo da Pontormo | |
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Rosso Fiorentino | |
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Bronzino | |
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Parmigianino | |
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Veronese and Tintoretto | |
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French Mannerism | |
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El Greco | |
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The Baroque: The True Golden Age | |
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The Birth of Baroque | |
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Caravaggio | |
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Georges de la Tour | |
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The Caravaggesque Style Elsewhere | |
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The Flourishing of the Baroque | |
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Gianlorenzo Bernini | |
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Peter Paul Rubens | |
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Jan Vermeer | |
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Rembrandt van Rijn | |
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Baroque Tendencies in France | |
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Pierre Puget | |
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Nicholas Poussin | |
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The Best of the 17th Century: Diego Velazquez | |
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The Sparkling 18th Century | |
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France and the Rococo Style | |
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Jean-Antoine Watteau | |
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Francois Boucher | |
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Jean-Honore Fragonard | |
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Painters of the middle class | |
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French sculpture | |
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French decorative art | |
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Germany and the Rococo | |
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The Impact of Italy | |
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Piazzetta and Tiepolo | |
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Caneletto, Guardi, and Belotto | |
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English Contributions | |
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William Hogarth | |
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Thomas Gainsborough | |
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English decorative arts | |
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The Emergence of America | |
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The End of the Rococo | |
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Neoclassicism and the Romantic Twinge | |
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Neoclassicism | |
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Jacques-Louis David | |
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The reach of Neoclassicism | |
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Antonio Canova | |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | |
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Romanticism | |
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William Blake | |
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Joseph Mallord William Turner | |
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Caspar David Friedrich | |
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Eugene Delacroix | |
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Theodore Gericault | |
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Francisco Goya | |
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Impressionism (The Poetry of the Land and Mankind) | |
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The Roots of Impressionism | |
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Creative forebears | |
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Seminal thoughts | |
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Political influences | |
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The advent of photography | |
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The impact of science | |
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The art establishment falls | |
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The Key Role of Edouard Manet | |
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Claude Monet | |
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The Impressionist "Style" | |
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Post-Impressionism (Or Better, Pre-Modern) | |
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Painting after the Impressionists | |
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Georges Seurat | |
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Paul Gauguin | |
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Vincent van Gogh | |
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Paul Cezanne | |
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Modern Art: The Bold, the Beautiful, and the Not-So-Beautiful | |
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Pablo Picasso | |
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ISMs and Other Styles | |
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Fauvism | |
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Die Brucke ("The Bridge") | |
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Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider") | |
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Futurism | |
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Constructivism | |
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Suprematism | |
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Dadaism | |
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Surrealism | |
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The Bauhaus | |
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Sezession (Secession) | |
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Is Modern Art Something of a Joke? | |
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Contemporary Art and Its "ISMs" (Not Always So Nice, but Ever Exciting) | |
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The Lowdown on Contemporary Art | |
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Abstract Expressionism | |
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Color Field Painting | |
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Pop Art | |
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Abstract Illusionism | |
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Art Brut | |
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Body Art | |
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Minimalism | |
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Conceptual Art | |
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Earthworks | |
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Hairy Whoism and Chicago Imagism | |
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"True" Art | |
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Neurotic Realism | |
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Transavantgardism | |
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Installation Art | |
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A Look at Art Beyond the Western World | |
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China | |
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The essence of Chinese art | |
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Taipei treasures | |
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Japan | |
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Unbreakable traditions | |
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India and Southeast Asia | |
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Islamic Art -- Only God Remains | |
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Beginnings -- Early Caliphs and the Umayyads (633-750) | |
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Fatimids (909-1171) | |
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Seljuq art (1037-1300) | |
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Moorish Spain (719-1492) | |
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Mamluk art (1250-1517) | |
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Ottoman art (1299-1893) | |
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Safavid art (1502-1736) | |
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Mughal art (1525-1857) | |
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Africa, Oceania, and the Americas | |
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Africa | |
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Oceania | |
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The Americas | |
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Beginning Your Own Collection | |
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Getting Ready to Collect | |
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Getting Set to Collect | |
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Record your first impression | |
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Describe the item in writing | |
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Determine the condition | |
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Figure out how the work was used | |
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Determine the style | |
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Find out where a piece came from | |
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Consult an expert | |
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Run some tests | |
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Compare your first impression with what you have found out | |
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The Don'ts of Collecting Art | |
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How to Play the Buying Game | |
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The Many Faces of Forgeries | |
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Where to Go to Buy | |
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Knowing What to Ask | |
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Understanding Dealer-Speak | |
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Taking Your Chances at an Auction | |
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What to Collect and What to Avoid | |
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What to Look Into or Avoid | |
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The Part of Tens | |
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The Greatest Works of Western Civilization | |
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King Tut's Golden Mask | |
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The Sculptures of the Parthenon | |
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The Scythian Gold Pectoral | |
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Nicholas of Verdun's Enameled Altar | |
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Giotto's Arena Chapel | |
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The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck | |
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Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" | |
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Michelangelo's "David" | |
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The Isenheim Altarpiece by Mathias Grunewald | |
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El Greco's "Burial of Count Orgaz" | |
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Diego Velazquez's "Las Meninas" | |
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Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son" | |
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Francisco Goya's "The Third of May, 1808" | |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party" | |
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Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" | |
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The Ten Most Interesting Artists (And Why) | |
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) | |
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Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) | |
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) | |
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Francisco Goya (1746-1828) | |
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Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) | |
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610) | |
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) | |
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Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) | |
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Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) | |
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Lysippus (Flourished 4th century B.C.) | |
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Ten Artists Worth Watching | |
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Mark di Suvero (b. 1933) | |
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Gary Simmons (b. 1964) | |
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Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928) | |
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Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917) | |
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Frank Stella (b. 1936) | |
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Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) | |
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Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) | |
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Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) | |
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Jenny Saville (b. 1970) | |
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Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) | |
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How to Tell if Your Child Has Artistic Genius and Then What to Do | |
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Appendixes | |
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Artspeak Unmasked | |
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The Professional's Checklist on How to Buy Art | |
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Art Chronology | |
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The Essential Guide to the World's Top Art Cities and Centers | |
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The Awesome Americas | |
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United States | |
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Arizona | |
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Arkansas | |
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California | |
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Los Angeles Area | |
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San Diego Area | |
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San Francisco Area | |
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Colorado | |
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Connecticut | |
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District of Columbia | |
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Washington, D.C. | |
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Illinois | |
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Chicago | |
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Indiana | |
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Maryland | |
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Baltimore | |
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Massachusetts | |
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Boston area | |
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Michigan | |
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Minnesota | |
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Missouri | |
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Kansas City | |
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Saint Louis | |
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New York | |
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Buffalo | |
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Corning | |
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New York | |
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North Carolina | |
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Ohio | |
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Cleveland | |
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Oberlin | |
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Toledo | |
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Oklahoma | |
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Pennsylvania | |
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Philadelphia | |
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Texas | |
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Austin | |
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Dallas | |
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Fort Worth | |
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Houston | |
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Virginia | |
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Wyoming | |
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Canada | |
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Montreal | |
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Ottawa | |
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Toronto | |
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Vancouver | |
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Latin America | |
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Brazil | |
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Mexico | |
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Peru | |
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Venezuela | |
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Europe (All That's Worth a Detour) | |
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Austria | |
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Vienna | |
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France | |
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Paris | |
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Germany | |
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Berlin | |
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Cologne (Koln) | |
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Dresden | |
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Munich | |
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Greece | |
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Athens | |
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Ireland | |
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Dublin | |
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Italy | |
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Florence | |
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Rome | |
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Venice | |
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Netherlands, The | |
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Amsterdam | |
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The Hague | |
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Russia | |
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Moscow | |
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St. Petersburg | |
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Spain | |
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Barcelona | |
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Bilbao | |
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Madrid | |
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Switzerland | |
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Basel (Switzerland) | |
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Zurich | |
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United Kingdom | |
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London | |
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Non-Western Destinations | |
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Egypt | |
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Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara | |
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The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, and the Giza Plateau | |
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Cairo | |
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Luxor | |
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Aswan | |
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Israel | |
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Jerusalem | |
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Turkey | |
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Istanbul | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |
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Book Registration Information | |