The Visual Arts
A History, Revised Edition
7th Edition
Published on 16. March 2009
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1004 pages
978-0-205-66535-8 (ISBN)
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Hailed as the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey published in a single volume, this new revised edition is an authoritative and enlightened account of the history of art. It presents art history as an essential part of the development of humankind, encompassing the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas-spanning from the primitive art of hunters 30,000 years ago to the most controversial art forms of today. The text is beautifully and generously illustrated with over 1,400 superb photographs, including architectural plans and color maps
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7th edition
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United States
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Pearson Education (US)
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Content
INTRODUCTION
Art as Craft
Systems of Building
Sculptural Techniques and Materials
Painting Techniques and Materials
Print-making
Photography
Pictorial Representation
Perspective
Color
Style and Individual Expression
The Power of Images
Women Artists
The History of Art
PART I. FOUNDATIONS OF ART
1. BEFORE HISTORY
The Art of the Hunters
Cave Art
Mesolithic Art
The Art of Farmers
Neolithic Architecture
Stonehenge
2. THE EARLY CIVILIZATIONS
Mesopotamia
Sumer
Akkadian Art
Ziggurats
Babylon
The Indus Valley
Ancient Egypt
Predynastic
Early Dynastic
Old Kingdom Architecture
Old Kingdom Sculpture and Painting
Middle Kingdom
The Aegean
Minoan Crete
Mycenae and the Mainland
China
Shang Dynasty
3. DEVELOPMENTS ACROSS THE CONTINENTS
The Hittites
The Discovery of Iron
The New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt
New Kingdom Architecture
Akhenaten
Ramesside Art
Assyria and Babylon
Narrative Relief
Babylon
Iran
Archaemenid Art
Persepolis
Zhou China
The Americas
The Olmecs
Peru
Africa: Nok Culture
4. THE GREEKS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS
Archaic Greece
The Male Nude
The Polis
The Classical Period
The Parthenon
Naturalism and Idealization
Vase Painting
Stelae
The Late Classical Period
Barbarian Alternatives: Scythians and the Animal Style
Hallstatt and La Tene
Iberiaand Sardinia
The Etruscans
5. HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN ART
The Hellenistic Period
Plato, Aristotle and the Arts
Allegory
Hellenistic Architecture
Hellenistic and Roman Painting and Mosaics
Roman Architecture
Domestic Architecture
Temples and Public Works
The Colosseum and the Invention of Concrete
The Pantheon
Roman Sculpture
Towards a Definition of Roman Art
Late Antique Art
PART II. ART AND THE WORLD RELIGIONS
6. BUDDHISM, HINDUISM, AND FAR EASTERN ART
Buddhist Art in India
The Image of the Buddha
Hindu Art in India
Buddhist and Hindu Art in Sri Lanka and Java
Buddhist and Hindu Art on the Southeast Asian Mainland
Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist Art in China
Han Dynasty
Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties
Song Dynasty
Landscape Painting
Shinto and Buddhist Art in Japan
Periods (794-1333)
7. EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ART
The Beginnings of Christian Art
From Domus Ecclesiae to the Christian Basilica
The Image of Christ
Ravenna
Byzantine Art
Ecclesiastical Architecture
Hagia Sophia
The Classical Tradition
Icons and Iconoclasts
The Triumph of Orthodoxy
Christian Art in Northern Europe
Interlace and Illumination
Christian Art in Western Europe
The Carolingian Renovation
Developments in Christian Imagery
8. EARLY ISLAMIC ART
Umayyad Art and Architecture
Abbasid Art and Architecture
Islamic Spain
Samanid and Seljuk Architecture
Islamic Decoration
PART III. SACRED AND SECULAR ART
9. MEDIEVAL CHRISTENDOM
Ottonian Art
Romanesque Architecture in Italy
Romanesque Art and Architecture in Northern Europe
Innovations in Romanesque Architecture
Gothic Art and Architecture
High Gothic
Stained Glass and Flying Buttresses
Economics and Theology
Sculpture and Painting
English and German Gothic
Italian Gothic
Giotto
Secular and International Gothic
10. THE FIFTEEN CENTURY IN EUROPE
The Beginning of the Italian Renaissance
Brunelleschi
Masaccio
`Progress' in Sculpture
A New Style in Flanders
Van Eyck and van der Weyden
Architecture in Italy
Alberti
Sculpture in Italy
Donatello
New Departures
Italian Painting and the Church
Fra Angelico, Uccello, and Piero della Francesca
Secular Painting
Botticelli
The Venetian Synthesis
Mantegna and Bellini
International Humanism
Duerer
11. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN EUROPE
Reform and Early Sixteenth Century Art in the North
Hieronymus Bosch
Gruenewald
Protestant Art
The High Renaissance in Italy
Leonardo da Vinci
Harmony, Unity, and Raphael Michelangelo
The Venetian High Renaissance
Giorgione
Titian
Tintoretto and Veronese
Sansovino, Palladio, and the Laws of Harmony
Mannerism and Mannerisms
Correggio and Mannerist `License'
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
El Greco
12. THE AMERICAS, AFRICA, AND ASIA
Mesoamerica and Peru
The Maya, Toltecs, and Mixtecs
The Aztecs
The Incas
Africa
The Islamic World
Ottoman Architecture
Safavid Art and Architecture
Mughal Art
China
The Yuan Dynasty
The Ming Dynasty
Japan-Kamakura to Edo
The Influence of Zen Buddhism
13. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN EUROPE
New Beginnings in Rome
Baroque Art and Architecture
Rubens and van Dyck
The Easel Painting in Italy
Bernini
Borromini
Poussin and Claude
Velasquez
Dutch Painting
Hals
Rembrandt
Landscape
Still Life and Genre
Vermeer
Englandand France
14. ENLIGHTENMENT AND LIBERTY
French Rococo Art
Watteau, de Troy, and the Rococo Interior
Boucher, Chardin, and Fragonard
The Rococo in Germany and Italy
Tiepolo, Guardi, and Canaletto
English Sense and Sensibility
Hogarth and Gainsborough
Landscape and Classicism
Neo-Classicism, or the `True Style'
Canova and David
PART IV. THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
15. ROMANTICISM TO REALISM
Romanticism
The Heirs of David
Goya
Gericault
Ingres
Delacroix
Romanticism and Philosophy
Friedrich
Blake
Romantic Landscape Painting
Constable
Turner
Corot and the Etude
Photography
In Which Style Should We Build?
Historicism and Realism
The Pre-Raphaelites
Courbet
Millet
Manet
The USA
Photography Comes of Age
16. EATERN TRADITIONS
Qing-DynastyChina
Architecture and the Decorative Arts
Japanin the Edo Period
Hokusai and Hiroshige
17. IMPRESSIONISM TO POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Impressionism
Monet
Morisot, Renoir, and Manet
Degas
Japonisme
Neo-Impressionism
Seurat, Divisionism, and Socialism
Symbolism
Gaugin and Van Gogh
Allegories of Modern Life: Munch and Rodin
Art Nouveau and New Architecture
Sullivan and the Skyscraper
Domestic Architecture
Cezanne
18. INDIGENOUS ARTS OF AFRICA, THE AMERICAS, AUSTRALIAS, AND OCEANIA
Oceania
Polynesia
Melanesia and Micronesia
Australia
The American Northwest
The Plains and the Arid Lands of North America
Africa
PART V. TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART
19. ART FROM 1900 TO 1919
New Ways of Looking
The Fauves and Expressionism
Matisse
The German Expressionists
Kandinsky
Marc
Cubism
Picasso and Braque: Analytical and Synthetic Cubism
Orphic Cubism
Futurism
Abstract or Non-Objective Art
Suprematism and the Founding of De Stijl
Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
20. BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
Dada and Surrealism
Duchamp
Americaand the Precisionist View
Diego Rivera and the Mexican Muralists
Breton, de Chirico, and Ernst
Dali, Magritte, and Miro
Welded Metal: A Revolution in Sculpture
Photography and Modern Movements
Constructivism, De Stijl, and the International Style
Art and Revolution
The Bauhaus
Mondrian
Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe
Brancusi and More
Art Deco
21. POST-WAR TO POST-MODERN
Abstract Expressionism
Pollock and de Kooning
Still, Rothko, and Newman
European Survivors
Post-Painterly Abstraction
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg
Pop Art
Photographic Imagery
Minimal and Conceptual Art
Earth and Land Art
Photo-Realism and New Image Painting
Body Art and Process Art
Modernism and Post-Modernism
22. INTRO TO THE THIRD MILLENIUM
Questioning Modernism
Neo-Expressionism
Art as Identity
Post-Modern Multiculturalism
Video Art
The Post-Medium Condition
Photography and the Construction of Reality
Abjection
The New Museums of Art
Urban Development
Art after Post-Modernism
Globalization, Sensation and Spectacle
The Turn of the Millenniun
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
Maps
Art as Craft
Systems of Building
Sculptural Techniques and Materials
Painting Techniques and Materials
Print-making
Photography
Pictorial Representation
Perspective
Color
Style and Individual Expression
The Power of Images
Women Artists
The History of Art
PART I. FOUNDATIONS OF ART
1. BEFORE HISTORY
The Art of the Hunters
Cave Art
Mesolithic Art
The Art of Farmers
Neolithic Architecture
Stonehenge
2. THE EARLY CIVILIZATIONS
Mesopotamia
Sumer
Akkadian Art
Ziggurats
Babylon
The Indus Valley
Ancient Egypt
Predynastic
Early Dynastic
Old Kingdom Architecture
Old Kingdom Sculpture and Painting
Middle Kingdom
The Aegean
Minoan Crete
Mycenae and the Mainland
China
Shang Dynasty
3. DEVELOPMENTS ACROSS THE CONTINENTS
The Hittites
The Discovery of Iron
The New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt
New Kingdom Architecture
Akhenaten
Ramesside Art
Assyria and Babylon
Narrative Relief
Babylon
Iran
Archaemenid Art
Persepolis
Zhou China
The Americas
The Olmecs
Peru
Africa: Nok Culture
4. THE GREEKS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS
Archaic Greece
The Male Nude
The Polis
The Classical Period
The Parthenon
Naturalism and Idealization
Vase Painting
Stelae
The Late Classical Period
Barbarian Alternatives: Scythians and the Animal Style
Hallstatt and La Tene
Iberiaand Sardinia
The Etruscans
5. HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN ART
The Hellenistic Period
Plato, Aristotle and the Arts
Allegory
Hellenistic Architecture
Hellenistic and Roman Painting and Mosaics
Roman Architecture
Domestic Architecture
Temples and Public Works
The Colosseum and the Invention of Concrete
The Pantheon
Roman Sculpture
Towards a Definition of Roman Art
Late Antique Art
PART II. ART AND THE WORLD RELIGIONS
6. BUDDHISM, HINDUISM, AND FAR EASTERN ART
Buddhist Art in India
The Image of the Buddha
Hindu Art in India
Buddhist and Hindu Art in Sri Lanka and Java
Buddhist and Hindu Art on the Southeast Asian Mainland
Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist Art in China
Han Dynasty
Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties
Song Dynasty
Landscape Painting
Shinto and Buddhist Art in Japan
Periods (794-1333)
7. EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ART
The Beginnings of Christian Art
From Domus Ecclesiae to the Christian Basilica
The Image of Christ
Ravenna
Byzantine Art
Ecclesiastical Architecture
Hagia Sophia
The Classical Tradition
Icons and Iconoclasts
The Triumph of Orthodoxy
Christian Art in Northern Europe
Interlace and Illumination
Christian Art in Western Europe
The Carolingian Renovation
Developments in Christian Imagery
8. EARLY ISLAMIC ART
Umayyad Art and Architecture
Abbasid Art and Architecture
Islamic Spain
Samanid and Seljuk Architecture
Islamic Decoration
PART III. SACRED AND SECULAR ART
9. MEDIEVAL CHRISTENDOM
Ottonian Art
Romanesque Architecture in Italy
Romanesque Art and Architecture in Northern Europe
Innovations in Romanesque Architecture
Gothic Art and Architecture
High Gothic
Stained Glass and Flying Buttresses
Economics and Theology
Sculpture and Painting
English and German Gothic
Italian Gothic
Giotto
Secular and International Gothic
10. THE FIFTEEN CENTURY IN EUROPE
The Beginning of the Italian Renaissance
Brunelleschi
Masaccio
`Progress' in Sculpture
A New Style in Flanders
Van Eyck and van der Weyden
Architecture in Italy
Alberti
Sculpture in Italy
Donatello
New Departures
Italian Painting and the Church
Fra Angelico, Uccello, and Piero della Francesca
Secular Painting
Botticelli
The Venetian Synthesis
Mantegna and Bellini
International Humanism
Duerer
11. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN EUROPE
Reform and Early Sixteenth Century Art in the North
Hieronymus Bosch
Gruenewald
Protestant Art
The High Renaissance in Italy
Leonardo da Vinci
Harmony, Unity, and Raphael Michelangelo
The Venetian High Renaissance
Giorgione
Titian
Tintoretto and Veronese
Sansovino, Palladio, and the Laws of Harmony
Mannerism and Mannerisms
Correggio and Mannerist `License'
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
El Greco
12. THE AMERICAS, AFRICA, AND ASIA
Mesoamerica and Peru
The Maya, Toltecs, and Mixtecs
The Aztecs
The Incas
Africa
The Islamic World
Ottoman Architecture
Safavid Art and Architecture
Mughal Art
China
The Yuan Dynasty
The Ming Dynasty
Japan-Kamakura to Edo
The Influence of Zen Buddhism
13. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN EUROPE
New Beginnings in Rome
Baroque Art and Architecture
Rubens and van Dyck
The Easel Painting in Italy
Bernini
Borromini
Poussin and Claude
Velasquez
Dutch Painting
Hals
Rembrandt
Landscape
Still Life and Genre
Vermeer
Englandand France
14. ENLIGHTENMENT AND LIBERTY
French Rococo Art
Watteau, de Troy, and the Rococo Interior
Boucher, Chardin, and Fragonard
The Rococo in Germany and Italy
Tiepolo, Guardi, and Canaletto
English Sense and Sensibility
Hogarth and Gainsborough
Landscape and Classicism
Neo-Classicism, or the `True Style'
Canova and David
PART IV. THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
15. ROMANTICISM TO REALISM
Romanticism
The Heirs of David
Goya
Gericault
Ingres
Delacroix
Romanticism and Philosophy
Friedrich
Blake
Romantic Landscape Painting
Constable
Turner
Corot and the Etude
Photography
In Which Style Should We Build?
Historicism and Realism
The Pre-Raphaelites
Courbet
Millet
Manet
The USA
Photography Comes of Age
16. EATERN TRADITIONS
Qing-DynastyChina
Architecture and the Decorative Arts
Japanin the Edo Period
Hokusai and Hiroshige
17. IMPRESSIONISM TO POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Impressionism
Monet
Morisot, Renoir, and Manet
Degas
Japonisme
Neo-Impressionism
Seurat, Divisionism, and Socialism
Symbolism
Gaugin and Van Gogh
Allegories of Modern Life: Munch and Rodin
Art Nouveau and New Architecture
Sullivan and the Skyscraper
Domestic Architecture
Cezanne
18. INDIGENOUS ARTS OF AFRICA, THE AMERICAS, AUSTRALIAS, AND OCEANIA
Oceania
Polynesia
Melanesia and Micronesia
Australia
The American Northwest
The Plains and the Arid Lands of North America
Africa
PART V. TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART
19. ART FROM 1900 TO 1919
New Ways of Looking
The Fauves and Expressionism
Matisse
The German Expressionists
Kandinsky
Marc
Cubism
Picasso and Braque: Analytical and Synthetic Cubism
Orphic Cubism
Futurism
Abstract or Non-Objective Art
Suprematism and the Founding of De Stijl
Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
20. BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
Dada and Surrealism
Duchamp
Americaand the Precisionist View
Diego Rivera and the Mexican Muralists
Breton, de Chirico, and Ernst
Dali, Magritte, and Miro
Welded Metal: A Revolution in Sculpture
Photography and Modern Movements
Constructivism, De Stijl, and the International Style
Art and Revolution
The Bauhaus
Mondrian
Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe
Brancusi and More
Art Deco
21. POST-WAR TO POST-MODERN
Abstract Expressionism
Pollock and de Kooning
Still, Rothko, and Newman
European Survivors
Post-Painterly Abstraction
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg
Pop Art
Photographic Imagery
Minimal and Conceptual Art
Earth and Land Art
Photo-Realism and New Image Painting
Body Art and Process Art
Modernism and Post-Modernism
22. INTRO TO THE THIRD MILLENIUM
Questioning Modernism
Neo-Expressionism
Art as Identity
Post-Modern Multiculturalism
Video Art
The Post-Medium Condition
Photography and the Construction of Reality
Abjection
The New Museums of Art
Urban Development
Art after Post-Modernism
Globalization, Sensation and Spectacle
The Turn of the Millenniun
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
Maps