Art History For Dummies

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Intro
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1 Getting Started with Art History
Chapter 1 Art Tour through the Ages
Connecting Art Divisions and Culture
It's Ancient History, So Why Dig It Up?
Mesopotamian period (3500 bc-500 bc) and Egyptian period (3100 bc-332 bc)
Ancient Greek period (c. 850 bc-323 bc) and Hellenistic period (323 bc-32 bc)
Roman period (300 bc-ad 476)
Did the Art World Crash When Rome Fell, or Did It Just Switch Directions?
Byzantine period (ad 500-ad 1453)
Islamic period (seventh century+)
Medieval period (500-1400)
High Renaissance (1495-1520) and Mannerism (1530-1580)
Baroque period (1600-1750) and Rococo period (1715-1760s)
In the Machine Age, Where Did Art Get Its Power?
Neoclassicism (1765-1830)
Romanticism (late 1700s-early 1800s)
The Modern World and the Shattered Mirror
Responding to modern pressures
Conceptualizing the craft
Expressing mixed-up times
Chapter 2 Why People Make Art and What It All Means
Focusing on the Artist's Purpose
Recording religion, ritual, and mythology
Promoting politics and propaganda
When I say jump: Art made for patrons
Following a personal vision
Detecting Design
Perceiving pattern
Rolling with the rhythm
Weighing the balance
Looking for contrast
Examining emphasis
Decoding Meaning
The ABCs of visual narrative
Sorting symbols
Chapter 3 The Major Artistic Movements
Distinguishing an Art Period from a Movement
Tracking Major 19th-Century Art Movements
Realism (1840s-1880s)
Impressionism (1869-late 1880s)
Post-Impressionism (1886-1892)
Moving Off the Rails in the 20th Century
Fauvism and Expressionism
Fauvism (1905-1908)
Expressionism (1905-1933)
Cubism, Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism
Cubism (1908-1920s)
Futurism (1909-1940s)
Dada (1916-1920)
Surrealism (1924-1940s)
Abstract Expressionism (1946-1950s)
Pop Art (1960s)
Conceptual art, performance art, and feminist art (late 1960s-1970s)
Postmodernism (1970-)
Part 2 From Caves to Colosseum: Ancient Art
Chapter 4 Magical Hunters and Psychedelic Cave Artists
Cool Cave Art or Paleolithic Painting: Why Keep It a Secret?
Hunting on a wall
Psychedelic shamans with paintbrushes
Flirting with Fertility Goddesses
Dominoes for Druids: Stonehenge, Menhirs, and Neolithic Architecture
Living in the New Stone Age: Çatalhöyük, Göbekli Tepe, and Skara Brae
Cracking the mystery of the megaliths and menhirs
Describing a megalith
Singling out Stonehenge
Chapter 5 Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art
Climbing toward the Clouds: Sumerian Architecture
Zigzagging to Heaven: Ziggurats
The Tower of Babel
The Eyes Have It: Scoping Out Sumerian Sculpture
Worshipping graven images
Stare-down with God: Statuettes from Abu Temple
Playing Puabi's Lyre
Unraveling the Standard of Ur
Stalking Stone Warriors: Akkadian Art
Stamped in Stone: Hammurabi's Code
Unlocking Assyrian Art
Babylon Has a Baby: New Babylon
Chapter 6 One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art
Ancient Egypt 101
Segmenting the Egyptian periods
Thanking the Nile
The Art of a Unified Egypt
Depicting the unification
Noting art as history in the Palette of Narmer
The Egyptian Style: Proportion and Orientation
Excavating Old Kingdom Architecture
Early mastabas and step pyramids
Turning to stone
Making the architecture great
Spending life preparing for death
The In-Between Period and Middle Kingdom Realism
New Kingdom Art
Hatshepsut: A female phenom
Akhenaten and Egyptian family values
Raiding King Tut's tomb treasures
Admiring the world's most beautiful dead woman's tomb
Decoding Books of the Dead
Too-big-to-forget sculpture
Chapter 7 Greek Art, the Olympian Ego, and the Inventors of the Modern World
Mingling with the Minoans: Snake Goddesses, Minotaurs, and Bull Jumpers
Greek Sculpture: Stark Symmetry to a Delicate Balance
Kouros to Kritios Boy
The Archaic period
The Classical period
Golden Age sculptors: Myron, Polykleitos, and Phidias
Creating balance and proportion
Sculpting art that is glorious and timeless
Fourth-century sculpture
Figuring Out Greek Vase Painting
Cool stick figures: The geometric style
Black-figure and red-figure techniques
Rummaging through Ruins: Greek Architecture
Greece without Borders: Hellenism
Sculpting passion and struggle
Honoring the classical in a new world
Chapter 8 Etruscan and Roman Art: It's All Greek to Me!
The Mysterious Etruscans
Temple to tomb: Greek influence
Smiles in stone: The eternally happy Etruscans
Infusing Art with Roman Influence
Linking the territory that was Rome
Art as mirror: Roman realism and Republican sculptural portraits
Progressing on to propaganda
Shirking idealism for authenticity
Realism in painting
Roman mosaics
Revealing Roman Architecture: A Marriage of Style and Engineering
Temple of Portunus
Maison Carrée
Roman aqueducts
The Colosseum
The Pantheon
Part 3 Art after the Fall of Rome: ad 500-ad 1760
Chapter 9 The Graven Image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art
The Rise and Fall of Constantinople
Christianizing Rome
After the fall: Divisions and schisms
Early Christian Art in the West
Rejecting paganism
Drawing on Roman art and culture
Byzantine Art Meets Imperial Splendor
Justinian and Early Byzantine architecture
Fighting fire to build the Hagia Sophia
Marrying round and square
Amazing mosaics: Puzzle art
San Vitale: Justinian and Theodora mosaics
Deceptively simple architectural design
Stunning mosaic art
Mosaic tributes to Justinian and Theodora
The mosaics of St. Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy (Middle Byzantine)
Modeling design from other structures
The Old and New Testaments on display
Icons and iconoclasm
Characteristics of icons
The formulas governing icon symbolism
Icon art style: Long-lived but somewhat pliable
Islamic Art: Architectural Pathways to God
The Mosque of Córdoba
The dazzling Alhambra
A temple of love: The Taj Mahal
Chapter 10 Mystics, Marauders, and Manuscripts: Medieval Art
Irish Light: Illuminated Manuscripts
A unique Christian mission
Browsing the Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels, and other manuscripts
Assessing the strictly Irish illuminated manuscripts
Merging mirth and beliefs
Drolleries and the fun style
Charlemagne: King of His Own Renaissance
Weaving and Unweaving the Battle of Hastings: The Bayeux Tapestry
Providing a battle blueprint
Portraying everyday life in medieval England and France
Peddling political propaganda
Making border crossings
Romanesque Architecture: Churches That Squat
St. Sernin
Durham Cathedral
Romanesque Sculpture
Nightmares in stone: Romanesque relief
Roman sculpture revival
Relics and Reliquaries: Miraculous Leftovers
Gothic Grandeur: Churches That Soar
Building a church-and-state alliance
Bigger and brighter
Making something new from old parts
Finishing touches and voilà!
Expanding the Gothic dream
Stained-Glass Storytelling
Gothic Sculpture
Italian Gothic
Gothic Painting: Cimabue, Duccio, and Giotto
Cimabue
Duccio
Giotto
Tracking the Lady and the Unicorn: The Mystical Tapestries of Cluny
Themes of love and desire?
Themes with religious connotation?
The questions remain
Chapter 11 Born-Again Culture: The Early and High Renaissance
The Early Renaissance in Central Italy
The Great Door Contest: Brunelleschi versus Ghiberti - And the winner is!
Celebrating the door-contest winner
Admiring the achievements of the losers
The Duomo of Florence
Vanishing points and perspective
Masaccio: Out of the fish's mouth
Andrea del Castagno: Another Last Supper
Fra Angelico: He's not a liqueur!
Filippo Lippi: The wayward monk
Sandro Botticelli: A garden-variety Venus
A no-pasta primavera
Interpreting the story depicted
Donatello: Putting statues back on their feet
Breathing life into church niches
Reinstating the standing nude
The High Renaissance
Reviving self-respect
Elevating humanity in art
Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance man
Leonardo's techniques
Aerial perspective
Sfumato
Chiaroscuro
Leonardo's greatest works
Behind Lady Lisa's smile
Decoding The Last Supper
Leonardo's supper scene versus others'
Michelangelo: The main man
Michelangelo's technique
Michelangelo's style
Michelangelo's greatest works
The Pietà
David
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Raphael: The prince of painters
Raphael's techniques
Raphael's greatest work
Lessons from The School of Athens
Chapter 12 Venetian Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North
A Gondola Ride through the Venetian Renaissance
First stop, Bellini
Switching to oil for endless color choices
Glittering effects and wavy lines tell the story
A shortcut to Mantegna and Giorgione
Mantegna's focus on creating depth
Giorgione's soft and natural style
Dürer's Venice vacations
Touring the 16th century with Titian
The Venice of Veronese
From reformations
to stamping out heretical art
to crafting a compromise
Tintoretto and Renaissance ego
La Tintoretta: Marietta Robusti
A tale of devotion and tragedy
Uncertain attributions
Palladio: The king of classicism
Late Gothic: Northern Naturalism
Jan van Eyck: The Late Gothic ace
Rogier van der Weyden: Front and center
Northern Exposure: The Renaissance in the Netherlands and Germany
Decoding Bosch
The landscape
The wildlife
The food supply
The eternal pain
Deciphering the dark symbolism of Grünewald
Depicting the Passion
Exposing vicious demons
Dining with Bruegel the Elder
Arousing moods and seasons
Taking on the dark side
Chapter 13 Art That'll Stretch Your Neck: Mannerism
Detecting the Non-Rules of Mannerism
Pontormo: Front and Center
Bronzino's Background Symbols and Scene Layering
Parmigianino: He's Not a Cheese!
Contrasting proportions and balance
A surreal feel
Arcimboldo: À la Carte Art
Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625): Invading Art History's Guys' Club
Finding a place in the Spanish court
Rubbing elbows with the court painters
El Greco: Stretched to the Limit
Evolving a unique Mannerist style
Drawing inspiration from mysticism
How unappreciated was El Greco?
Lavinia Fontana: The First Professional Female Painter
Applying a rich education and broad network
Supplying the missing female storyline
Endowing Jesus with more humanity
Finding Your Footing in Giulio Romano's Palazzo Te
Architectural surprises outside
An inside to die for
Chapter 14 When the Renaissance Went Baroque
Baroque Origin, Purpose, and Style
Annibale Carracci: Heavenly Ceilings
Shedding Light on the Subject: Caravaggio and His Followers
Elements of Caravaggio style
Caravaggio style applied
Orazio Gentileschi: Baroque's gentle side, more or less
Shadow and light dramas: Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia's personal influence on art
Artemisia and dad depicting Greek myth
Elisabetta Sirani and an Art School for Women
Sirani's notable career
Portraying brave and capable women
The Ecstasy and the Ecstasy: Bernini Sculpture
Embracing Baroque Architecture
Maderno and the launch of Baroque architecture
Bernini: Transforming St. Peter's Basilica
Baroque style migrates northward
Fischer: Harmonizing Baroque style
Dutch and Flemish Realism
Rubens: Fleshy, flashy, and holy
Rembrandt: Self-portraits and life in the shadows
Laughing with Hals
Bold Strokes: Judith Leyster
Discovering fraudulent attribution
Beaming self-portraiture
Depicting and living with hardship
Vermeer: Musicians, maids, and girls with pearls
French Flourish and Baroque Light Shows
Poussin the Perfect
Candlelit reverie and Georges de La Tour
Versailles: Architecture as propaganda and the Sun King
In the Limelight with Caravaggio: The Spanish Golden Age
Ribera and Zurbarán: In the shadow of Caravaggio
Velázquez: Kings and princesses
Chapter 15 Going Loco with Rococo
What You Get in Rococo Art
Breaking with Baroque: Antoine Watteau
Fragonard and Boucher: Lush, Lusty, and Lavish
François Boucher
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Flying High: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Rococo Lite: The Movement in England
William Hogarth
Thomas Gainsborough
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Founding the Royal Academy of Art
Incorporating foreign elements in portraits
Part 4 The Industrial Revolution Revs Up Art's Evolution: 1760-1900
Chapter 16 All Roads Lead Back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical Art
When Philosophers and Artists Join Forces
The promotion of reason
Enlightened views and political progress
Angelica Kauffman: The Queen of Neoclassicism
Focusing on women and brother- or sisterhood
Not everyone loved the depictions
Jacques-Louis David: The King of Neoclassicism
Grand, formal, and retro
Propagandist for all sides
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: The Prince of Neoclassical Portraiture
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun: Portraitist of the Queen and Fashion Setter
Illustrating fashion trends
Fleeing for her life
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: From Ideal to Real and Royals to Revolutionaries
Starting with socially acceptable miniatures
Graduating to sizeable self-portraiture
Working with the Revolutionaries
Canova and Houdon: Greek Grace and Neoclassical Sculpture
Antonio Canova: Ace 18th-century sculptor
Jean-Antoine Houdon: In living stone
Chapter 17 Romanticism: Reaching Within and Acting Out
Kissing Isn't Romantic, but Having a Heart Is
Romancing independence
Romancing spirituality
Romancing the wild
Far Out with William Blake and Henry Fuseli: Personal Mythologies
Unifying body and soul
Drawing on imagination
Inside Out: Caspar David Friedrich
The Revolutionary French Romantics: Gericault and Delacroix
Théodore Gericault
Portraying a tragic shipwreck
Not everyone loved the message
Eugène Delacroix
Depicting liberty in art
Action, color, and high energy catch the mood
Francisco Goya and the Grotesque
J. M. W. Turner Sets the Skies on Fire
Chapter 18 What You See Is What You Get: Realism
Rebels with a Cause
Courbet and Daumier: Painting Peasants and Urban Blight
Gustave Courbet
Honoré Daumier: Guts and grit
The Barbizon School and the Great Outdoors
Jean-François Millet: The noble peasants
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: From naked truth to dressed-up reality
Rosa Bonheur: From a Horse Fair to Buffalo Bill
Portraying the Paris horse fair
Gaining world-wide renown
Keeping It Real in America
Along came Thomas Cole
Shunning civilization's encroachment
Contrasting progress and nature
Westward ho! with Albert Bierstadt
George Catlin, painter of western Indian tribes
Edmonia Lewis
Navigating sun, storm, and sea with Winslow Homer
Boating through America with Thomas Eakins
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Medieval Visions and Painting Literature
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Leader of the Pre-Raphaelites
Marie Spartali Stillman: From model to artist
John Everett Millais and soft-spoken symbolism
The Ten: America's First Art Movement
Celebrating the leisure class
Creating art for art's sake
Ashcan Artists: Capturing the Grit of Urban Life
Presenting the urban underbelly
Illustrating the rough life
Chapter 19 First Impressions: Impressionism
M & M: Manet and Monet
Édouard Manet: Breaking the rules
Innovating with painting techniques
Innovating the subject matter
Claude Monet: From patches to flecks
Capturing color and light
Finding the freedom to prosper
Pretty Women and Painted Ladies: Renoir and Degas
Impressionists and the movement's midlife crisis
Pretty as a picture: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Dabbling in dappled light
Impressionism's midlife crisis: It may have hit Renoir hardest
The dancers of Edgar Degas
Planning the snapshots
Changing style via the midlife crisis
Cassatt, Morisot, and Other Female Impressionists
Mary Cassatt
Berthe Morisot
Eva Gonzalès
American Impressionism
William Merritt Chase: An Impressionist with Realist ties
Frieseke in the Giverny American Art Colony
Jane Peterson
Chapter 20 Making Their Own Impression: The Post-Impressionists
You've Got a Point: Pointillism, Georges-Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac
Observing the science of color
Applying the science of color
Red-Light Art: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Tracking the "Noble Savage": Paul Gauguin
Brittany paintings
Tahiti paintings
Gauguin's influence
Painting Energy: Vincent van Gogh
Trading the ministry for art
Expanding artistic energy
Painting while confined
Love Cast in Stone: Rodin and Claudel
Auguste Rodin
Hard times for The Thinker
Eternal yearning with The Kiss
Camille Claudel
The Mask behind the Face: James Ensor
The Hills Are Alive with Geometry: Paul Cézanne
Art Nouveau: Curves, Swirls, and Asymmetry
Art Nouveau: Not a painting style
Making functionality pretty
Fairy-Tale Fancies and the Sandcastle Cathedral of Barcelona: Antoni Gaudí
Part 5 Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art
Chapter 21 From Fauvism to Expressionism
Fauvism: Colors Fighting like Animals
Henri Matisse
André Derain
Maurice de Vlaminck
German Expressionism: Form Based on Feeling
Die Brücke and World War I
Developing Die Brücke style
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Erich Heckel
Käthe Kollwitz
Der Blaue Reiter
Wassily Kandinsky: Symphonies of color
Gabriele Münter: Painting "extracts"
Franz Marc: Horses that harmonize with the landscape
Austrian Expressionism: From Dream to Nightmare
Gustav Klimt and his languorous ladies
Egon Schiele: Turning the self inside out
Oskar Kokoschka: Dark dreams and interior storms
Chapter 22 Cubist Puzzles and Finding the Fast Lane with the Futurists
Cubism: All Views At Once
Pablo Picasso
Analytic Cubism: Breaking things apart
Synthetic Cubism: Gluing things together
Fernand Léger: Cubism for the commoner
Futurism: Art That Broke the Speed Limit
Umberto Boccioni
Gino Severini
Precisionism: Geometry as Art
The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age
Chapter 23 Nonobjective Art: Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism
Suprematism: Kazimir Malevich's Reinvention of Space
The path to Suprematism
Reinventing the world in shape and color
Constructivism: Showing Off Your Skeleton
Tatlin's Tower
A dance between time and space: Naum Gabo
Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl Movement
Dada Turns the World on Its Head
Dada, the ground floor, and Cabaret Voltaire
Dada: Influencee and influencer
Marcel Duchamp: Nudes, urinals, and hat racks
Readymade art punks
A tamer New York Dada
Hans (Jean) Arp: In and out of Dadaland
Surrealism and Disjointed Dreams
Max Ernst and his alter ego, Loplop
Salvador Dalí: Melting clocks, dreamscapes, and ants
René Magritte: Help, my head's on backwards!
Dissecting Frida Kahlo
Painting chronicles of life
Kahlo's conflicting personas
Joan Miro
Saving and salvaging art
Finding patterns in the images
My House Is a Machine: Modernist Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright: Bringing the outside in
The organic home
Inviting the outdoors in
Bauhaus boxes: Walter Gropius
Combining disciplines at Bauhaus
Sowing Bauhaus seeds abroad
Le Corbusier: Machines for living and Notre-Dame du Haut
Abstract Expressionism: Fireworks on Canvas
Arshile Gorky
Jackson Pollock: Flick, fling, drip, splash, swirl - action painting
Painting as therapy
Painting large and in charge
Lee Krasner: Almost patterns
Willem de Kooning
Chapter 24 Anything-Goes Art: Fab Fifties and Psychedelic Sixties
Artsy Cartoons: Pop Art
The many faces of Andy Warhol
Blam! Comic books on canvas: Roy Lichtenstein
Fantastic Realism
Ernst Fuchs: The father of the Fantastic Realists
Hundertwasser: Organic architecture and art
Louise Nevelson: Picking up the Trash and Assemblage
Louise Bourgeois: Sexualized sculpture
Less-Is-More Art: Rothko, Newman, Stella, Frankenthaler, and Others
Color Fields of dreams: Rothko and Newman
Helen Frankenthaler
Minimalism, more or less
Photorealism
Richard Estes: Always in focus
Clinical close-ups: Chuck Close
Helen Hardin: Native American Futurism
Performance Art and Installations
Fluxus: Intersections of the arts
Joseph Beuys: Fanning out from Fluxus
Carolee Schneemann: Body art and breaking taboos
Chapter 25 Photography: From Science to Art
The Birth of Photography
Transitioning from Science to Art
An early attempt to "artify" photography
Focusing on documentary photography
Alfred Stieglitz: Reliving the Moment
Recognition for photography as high art
Picturesque pictures
Henri Cartier-Bresson's uncanny eye
From painting to photography
Stealth and the "Decisive Moment"
Group f/64: Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Ansel Adams
Dorothea Lange: Depression to Dust Bowl
Margaret Bourke-White: From Industrial Beauty to Political Statements
Photographing for Fortune
Photographing for Life
Fast-Forward: The Next Generation
Chapter 26 The New World: Postmodern Art
From Modern Pyramids to Titanium Twists: Postmodern Architecture
Viva Las Vegas!
Chestnut Hill: Case in point
Philip Johnson and urban furniture
The prismatic architecture of I. M. Pei
Deconstructivist architecture of Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, and Zaha Hadid
Peter Eisenman (b. 1932)
Frank Gehry (b. 1929)
Zaha Hadid (1950-2016)
Making It or Faking It? Postmodern Photography and Painting
Cindy Sherman: Morphing herself
Gerhard Richter: Reading between the layers
Installation Art and Earth Art
Judy Chicago: A dinner table you can't sit at
It's a wrap: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Robert Smithson and earth art: Can you dig it?
Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies and Living, Genetic Art
Part 6 The Part of Tens
Chapter 27 Ten Must-See Art Museums
The Louvre (Paris)
The Uffizi (Florence)
The Vatican Museums (Rome)
The National Gallery (London)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)
The Prado (Madrid)
The National Gallery of Art (D.C.)
The Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
British Museum (London)
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)
Chapter 28 Ten Great Books by Ten Great Artists
On Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, by Giorgio Vasari
Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo
The Journal of Eugène Delacroix
Van Gogh's Letters
Rodin on Art, by Paul Gsell
Der Blaue Reiter Almanac, edited by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc
Concerning the Spiritual in Art, by Wassily Kandinsky
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
Hundertwasser Architecture: For a More Human Architecture in Harmony with Nature, by Friedensreich Hundertwasser
And Others
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