History Of Western Art 4th Ed. With Core Concepts Cd-Rom 2. 5

Description: Appropriate for one-semester art history surveys or historically-focused art appreciation classes, "A History of Western Art, Fourth Edition", offers an exciting new CD-ROM, additional color plates, and a number of new features. Focusing on the Western canon of art history, the text presents a compelling chronological narrative from prehistory to the present. A new non-Western supplement, "World Views: Topics in Non-Western Art", addresses specific areas of non-Western art and augments the Western chronology by illustrating moments of thematic relationships and cross-cultural contact.


Contents: Chapter 1: Why Do We Study the History of Art? The Artistic Impulse The Values of Art Art and Illusion Architecture Archeology and Art History Methodlogies of Art History Chapter 2: The Language of Art Composition Plane Balance Line Depth Space Shape Light and Color Texture Stylistic Terminology Chapter 3: Prehistoric Western Europe The Stone Age Paleolithic Beyond the West: Rock Paintings of Australia Mesolithic Neolithic Chapter 4: The Ancient Near East Neolithic Era Mesopotamia Anatolia: The Hittites Iran The Scythians Persia (Achaemenid) Empire Chapter 5: Ancient Egypt The Gift of the Nile The Pharaohs The Egyptian Concept of Kingship The Palette of Narmer The Old Kingdom The Middle Kingdom The New Kingdom Tutankhamon's Tomb Egypt and Nubia Chapter 6: The Aegean Cycladic Civilization Minoan Civilization Discoveries at Thera Mycenaean Civilization Chapter 7: The Art of Ancient Greece Cultural Identity Government and Philosophy Literature and Drama "Man is the Measure of Things" Painting and Pottery Sculpture Classical Architecture: The Athenian Acropolis Late Classical Style Hellenistic Period Chapter 8: The Art of the Etruscans Architecture Pottery and Sculpture Women in Etruscan Art Funerary Art Chapter 9: Ancient Rome Architectural Types Sculptural Types Mural Painting Chapter 10: Early Christian and Byzantine Art A New Religion Constantine and Christianity Early Christian Art Justinian and the Byzantine Style The Codex Later Byzantine Developments Chapter 11: The Early Middle Ages Islamic Art Northern European Art Ottonian Period Chapter 12: Romanesque Art Economic and Political Development Pilgrimage Roads Architecture Manuscripts Mural Painting The Bayeux Tapestry Chapter 13: Gothic Art Origins of the Gothic Style in France Early Gothic Architecture: Saint-Denis Elements of Gothic Architecture Romanesque Precursors of Gothic The Age of Cathedrals Chartres Later Developments of the French Gothic Style English Gothic Chapter 14: Precursors of the Renaissance Thirteenth--Century Italy Fourteenth--Century Italy The International Gothic Style Chapter 15: The Early Renaissance Italy in the Fifteenth Century Early Fifteenth--Century Painting Early Fifteenth--Century Sculpture: Donatello's David Second--Generation Developments Fifteenth--Century Painting in the Netherlands Chapter 16: The High Renaissance in Italy Architecture Painting and Sculpture Developments in Venice Chapter 17: Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth-Century in Italy Mannerism Counter--Reformation Painting Architecture: Andrea Palladio Chapter 18: Sixteenth--Century Painting in Northern Europe The Netherlands Germany Chapter 19: The Baroque Style in Western Europe Baroque Style Architecture Sculpture: Gianlorenzo Bernini Italian Baroque Painting Baroque Painting in Northern Europe Beyond the West: Mughal Art and the Baroque Spanish Baroque Painting: Diego Velazquez French Baroque Painting: Nicolas Poussin Chapter 20: Rococo and the Eighteenth Century Beyond the West: The Pagoda The Age of Enlightenment Rococo Painting Rococo Architecture Architectural Revivals Bourgeois Realism: Jean-Baptiste Chardin Neoclassicism: Angelica Kauffmann American Painting Chapter 21: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries The Neoclassical Style in France Developments in America Chapter 22: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Romantic Trends in Architecture Sculpture: Francois Rude Painting Chapter 23: Nineteenth-Century Realism French Realist Painting Photography American Realist Painting French Realism of the 1860s Architecture Chapter 24: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism Painting in France Beyond the West: Japanese Woodblock Prints French Sculpture: Auguste Rodin American Painting at the Turn of the Century "Art for Art's Sake" Chapter 25: Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century Post-Impressionist Painting Beyond the West: Gaugin and Oceania Symbolism Naive Painting: Henri Rousseau Chapter 26: The Early Twentieth Century: Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse Symbolism: Picasso's Blue Period Beyond the West: African Art and the European Avant-Garde Fauvism: Matisse in 1905 Expressionism Matisse after Fauvism Chapter 27: Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth--Century Styles Cubism Other Early Twentieth-Century Developments Architecture The International Style Chapter 28: Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, and Abstraction Dada Surrealism Sculpture Derived from Surrealism The United States: Regionalism and Social Realism Mexico Toward American Abstraction Trancendental Painting Chapter 29: Abstract Expressionism The Teachers: Hans Hoffman and Josef Albers Abstract Expressionism Action Painting Color Field Painting West Coast Abstraction: Richard Diebenkorn Sculpture Chapter 30: Pop Art, Op Art , and Minimalism Pop Art in England: Richard Hamilton Pop Art in the United States: Painting Sculpture Op Art Minimalism Action Sculpture: Joseph Beuys Chapter 31: Innovation, Continuity, and Globalization Return to Realism Architecture Environmental Art Feminist Art "Plus ca change!" Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Glossary Credits Index Maps


Author Biography: Laurie Schneider Adams received a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University. She is Professor of Art History at John Jay College, City University of New York, where she teaches art survey, and at the Graduate Center, where she teaches courses on the Italian Renaissance and on Art and Psychoanalysis. She has published articles on iconography and on art and psychology. She is the editor of Giotto in Perspectiveand of the journal Source: Notes in the History of Art; the author of A History of Western Art, The Methodologies of Art, Art and Psychoanalysis, and Art on Trial; and co-author (with Maria Grazia Pernis) of Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Malatesta: The Eagle and the Elephant and of 5 children's books (with Allison Coudert).