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    A History of Western Art by Adams, Laurie Schneider;

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    • Edition number 5
    • Publisher McGraw-Hill Education
    • Date of Publication 1 November 2010

    • ISBN 9780073379227
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages640 pages
    • Size 271x215x33 mm
    • Weight 1996 g
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    Appropriate for one-semester art history surveys or historically-focused art appreciation classes, A History of Western Art, Fifth Edition, combines sound scholarship, lavish visuals, and a lively narrative to provide students with an accessible and engaging introduction to art history. Focusing on the Western canon, the text presents a compelling chronological narrative from prehistory to the present. A 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.

    Appropriate for one-semester art history surveys or historically-focused art appreciation classes, A History of Western Art, Fifth Edition, combines sound scholarship, lavish visuals, and a lively narrative to provide students with an accessible and engaging introduction to art history. Focusing on the Western canon, the text presents a compelling chronological narrative from prehistory to the present. A 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.

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    Table of Contents:

    1: Why Do We Study the History of Art?

    The Artistic Impulse

    Chronology

    Why Do We Value Art?

    Material Value

    Intrinsic Value

    Brancusi’s Bird: Manufactured Metal or a Work of Art?

    Religious Value

    Nationalistic Value

    Psychological Value

    Art and Illusion

    Images and Words

    Traditions Equating Artists with Gods

    Art and Identification

    Reflections and Shadows: Legends of How Art Began

    Image Magic

    Architecture

    Archaeology and Art History

    Methodologies of Art History

    Formalism

    Iconography and Iconology

    Marxism

    Feminism

    Biography and Autobiography

    Semiology

    Deconstruction

    Psychoanalysis

    2: The Language of Art

    Composition

    Plane

    Balance

    Line

    Expressive Qualities of Line

    Lines Used for Modeling

    Depth

    The Illusion of Depth

    Perspective

    Space

    Shape

    Types of Shapes

    Expressive Qualities of Shape

    Light and Color

    Physical Properties of Color

    Expressive Qualities of Color

    Texture

    Stylistic Terminology

    3: Prehistoric Western Europe

    The Stone Age

    Paleolithic

    MAP: Prehistoric Site in Europe

    Sculpture

    Technique: Carving

    Technique: Modeling

    Technique: Categories of Sculpture

    Painting

    Media: Pigment

    BEYOND THE WEST: Rock Paintings of Australia

    Mesolithic

    Neolithic

    Menhirs

    Dolmens

    Cromlechs

    Architecture: Post-and-Lintel Construction

    4: The Ancient Near East

    The Neolithic Era

    MAP: The Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East

    Jericho

    Çatal Hüyük

    Mesopotamia

    Primary Source: Inanna

    The Uruk Period

    Ziggurats

    Religion: Mesopotamian Gods

    Cylinder Seals

    From Pictures to Words

    Literature: Gilgamesh

    Sumer: Early Dynastic Period

    Akkad

    Society and Culture: Sargon of Akkad

    Neo-Sumerian

    The Ziggurat of Ur

    Babylon

    Society and Culture: The Law Code of Hammurabi

    Anatolia: The Hittites

    Assyria

    Technique: Glazing

    The Neo-Babylonian Empire

    Architecture: Round Arches

    Iran

    Society and Culture: Destroying the Archaeological Record

    The Scythians

    Achaemenid Persia

    Architecture: Columns

    5: Ancient Egypt

    The Gift of the Nile

    The Pharaohs

    The Egyptian Concept of Kingship

    Chronology: Egyptian Kings

    MAP: Ancient Egypt and Nubia

    The Palette of Narmer

    Religion: Egyptian Gods

    The Old Kingdom

    Pyramids

    Mummification

    Sculpture

    Technique: The Egyptian Canon of Proportion

    The Middle Kingdom

    The New Kingdom

    Temples

    Painting

    The Amarna Period

    Tutankhamon’s Tomb

    Egypt and Nubia

    The Rock-Cut Temple of Ramses II

    Meroë

    6: The Aegean

    Cycladic Civilization

    MAP: The Ancient Aegean World

    Minoan Civilization

    The Palace at Knossos

    Media and Technique: Minoan Fresco

    Religion

    Pottery

    Society and Culture: Minoan Scripts

    Discoveries at Thera

    The Frescoes

    Mycenaean Civilization

    Myth: The Legend of Agamemnon

    7: The Art of Ancient Greece

    MAP: Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean

    Cultural Identity

    Government and Philosophy

    Philosophy: Plato on Artists

    Society and Culture: Women in Ancient Greece

    Literature and Drama

    “Man Is the Measure of All Things”

    Religion: Greek Gods and Their Roman Counterparts

    Painting and Pottery

    Geometric Style

    Orientalizing Style

    Archaic Style

    Media and Technique: Greek Vases

    Late Archaic to Classical Style

    Classical to Hellenistic Style

    Sculpture

    Archaic Style

    Early Classical Style

    Media and Technique: The Lost-Wax Process

    Classical Style

    Classical Architecture: The Athenian Acropolis

    The Parthenon

    Architecture: Plan of the Parthenon

    Architecture: The Greek Orders

    Myth: Medusa

    The Temple of Athena Nike

    The Erechtheum

    Late Classical Style

    The Greek Theater

    Architecture: Greek Theater

    Sculpture

    Style: The “Hermes of Praxiteles”

    Hellenistic Period

    Sculpture

    Myth: The Trojan Horse

    8: The Art of the Etruscans

    MAP: Etruscan and Roman Italy

    Architecture

    Pottery and Sculpture

    Women in Etruscan Art

    Funerary Art

    Cinerary Containers

    Sarcophagi

    Tomb Paintings

    9: Ancient Rome

    MAP: The Roman Empire, A.D. 14-282

    Primary Source: Virgil’s Aeneid

    Chronology: Roman Periods

    Architecture: Arches, Domes, and Vaults

    Architectural Types

    Domestic Architecture

    Public Buildings

    History: Julius Caesar

    Media: Roman Building Materials

    Religious Architecture

    Commemorative Architecture

    Primary Source: Josephus and the Jewish Wars

    Sculptural Types

    The Sarcophagus

    Media: Color Symbolism in Roman Marble

    Portraits

    History: Marcus Aurelius: Emperor and Philosopher

    Pictorial Style

    Painting and Mosaic

    10: Early Christian and Byzantine Art

    A New Religion

    Constantine and Christianity

    The Divergence of East and West

    Religion: Christianity and the Scriptures

    Early Christian Art

    Sarcophagi

    Religion: Christian Symbolism

    History: The Catacombs

    Basilicas

    Religion: Saint Peter

    Centrally Planned Churches

    Justinian and the Byzantine Style

    San Vitale

    Media and Technique: Mosaics

    MAP: The Byzantine Empire under Justinian I, A.D. 565

    Hagia Sophia

    The Codex

    The Vienna Genesis

    Media: Parchment

    Later Byzantine Developments

    11: The Early Middle Ages

    Islamic Art

    Religion: Islam

    The Great Mosque, Córdoba

    Northern European Art

    Anglo-Saxon Metalwork

    Primary Source: Beowulf

    Hiberno-Saxon Art

    Media and Technique: Manuscript Illumination

    The Carolingian Period

    MAP: The Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne, 814

    Manuscripts

    Religion: Revelation and the Four Symbols of the Evangelists

    Monasteries

    Ottonian Period

    12: Romanesque Art

    Economic and Political Developments

    Society and Culture: Feudalism

    Pilgrimage Roads

    MAP: Pilgrimage Roads to Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Architecture

    Sainte-Foy at Conques

    Developments at Autun

    The Stavelot Reliquary Triptych

    Manuscripts

    Mural Painting

    The “Bayeux Tapestry”

    13: Gothic Art

    Origins of the Gothic Style in France

    Early Gothic Architecture: Saint-Denis

    Religion: The Life of Saint Denis

    Elements of Gothic Architecture

    Rib Vaults

    Piers

    Flying Buttresses

    Pointed Arches

    The Skeleton

    Stained-Glass Windows

    Society and Culture: Guilds

    Romanesque Precursors of Gothic

    The Age of Cathedrals

    Chartres

    Exterior Architecture of Chartres

    Exterior Sculpture of Chartres

    Interior of Chartres

    Later Developments of the French Gothic Style

    Reims

    Paris: Reliquary Chapel of Sainte-Chapelle

    The Saint Louis Psalter

    English Gothic

    Salisbury Cathedral

    German Gothic

    Cologne Cathedral

    14: Precursors of the Renaissance

    Thirteenth-Century Italy

    Nicola Pisano

    Cimabue

    MAP: Leading Art Centers in Renaissance Italy

    Fourteenth-Century Italy

    Giotto

    Literature: Dante: Poet of Heaven and Hell

    Media and Technique: Tempera

    Media and Technique: Altarpieces

    The Arena Chapel

    Media and Technique: Fresco

    Painting in Siena

    Duccio’s Rucellai Madonna

    The Maesta

    The Kiss of Judas

    Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Effects of Good Government

    The International Gothic Style

    Claus Sluter

    The Limbourg Brothers

    15: The Early Renaissance

    Italy in the Fifteenth Century

    Renaissance Humanism

    Society and Culture: The Humanist Movement

    Society and Culture: Soldiers of Fortune

    The Competition for the Florence Baptistery Doors

    Brunelleschi’s Architecture

    History: Vasari’s Lives

    Linear Perspective

    Ghiberti’s East Baptistery Doors

    The Early Fifteenth-Century Painting

    Masaccio

    International Style in Italy: Gentile da Fabriano

    Technique: Aerial Perspective

    Early Fifteenth-Century Sculpture: Donatello’s David

    Second-Generation Developments

    Leon Battista Alberti

    The Theme of David and Goliath

    The Equestrian Portrait

    State Portraits

    Media: Oil Painting

    Monumentality versus Spirituality in Fifteenth-Century Painting

    Filippo Lippi

    Andrea Mantegna’s Illusionism

    History: Isabella d’Este

    Botticelli’s Mythological Subject Matter

    Philosophy: The Platonic Academy

    Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Netherlands

    MAP: Northern and Central Europe in the Renaissance

    Campin’s Mérode Altarpiece

    Jan van Eyck

    Rogier van der Weyden

    Later Developments

    16: The High Renaissance in Italy

    Architecture

    The Ideal of the Circle and Centrally Planned Churches

    St. Peter’s and the Central Plan

    History: Julius II

    Painting and Sculpture

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Technique: Sfumato

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Raphael

    Developments in Venice

    Gentile Bellini

    Giovanni Bellini and the Sacra Conversazione

    Theory: Pietro Aretino on Color versus Drawing

    Giorgione

    Titian

    17: Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy

    Politics and Religion

    History: The Reformation

    Mannerism

    Mannerist Painting

    Society and Culture: Vasari on Women Artists

    Mannerist Sculpture

    History: The Counter-Reformation

    Counter-Reformation Painting

    Tintoretto

    History: The Painter’s Daughter

    El Greco

    Architecture: Andrea Palladio

    Theory: The Four Books of Architecture

    18: Sixteenth-Century Painting and Printmaking in Northern Europe

    Humanism in the North

    MAP: Northern and Central Europe in the Renaissance

    The Netherlands

    Hieronymus Bosch


    History: Martin Luther

    Caterina van Hemessen

    Pieter Bruegel the Elder

    Literature: W.H. Auden’s Icarus

    Germany

    Albrecht Dürer

    Media and Technique: Printmaking

    Society and Culture: The Myth of the Mad Artist

    History: Erasmus

    Matthias Grünewald

    Lucas Cranach

    Hans Holbein the Younger

    19: The Baroque Style in Western Europe

    Religion, Politics, and Science

    Baroque Style

    MAP: Europe during the Baroque Style

    Architecture

    Italy

    France

    Society and Culture: The French Academy

    England

    Sculpture: Gianlorenzo Bernini

    Italian Baroque Painting

    Caravaggio

    Artemisia Gentileschi

    Society and Culture: Women as Artists from Antiquity to the 17th Century

    Giovanni Battista Gaulli

    Baroque Painting in Northern Europe

    Flanders: Peter Paul Rubens

    Holland: Rembrandt van Rijn

    Technique: Etching

    BEYOND THE WEST: Mughal Art and the Baroque

    Frans Hals

    Judith Leyster

    Jan Vermeer

    Jacob van Ruisdael

    Maria van Oosterwyck

    Spanish Baroque Painting

    Juan Sánchez Cotán

    Francesco de Zurburán

    Diego Velázquez

    French Baroque Painting: Nicolas Poussin

    20: Rococo, the Eighteenth Century, and Revival Styles

    Cultural Developments

    Society and Culture: Salons and Salonnieres

    The Age of Enlightenment

    Painting in France

    Antoine Watteau

    Jean-Honoré Fragonard

    Adélaide Labille-Guiard

    Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

    History: Prelude to the French Revolution

    Bourgeois Realism: Jean-Baptiste Chardin

    Painting in England

    Thomas Gainsborough

    William Hogarth

    Rococo Architecture in Germany

    Balthasar Neumann

    Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann

    Dominikus Zimmermann

    Architectural Revivals in England

    Classicism: Lord Burlington and Robert Adam

    Gothic Revival: Horace Walpole

    Neoclassicism: Angelica Kauffmann

    American Painting

    John Singleton Copley

    Benjamin West

    21: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

    The Neoclassical Style in France

    Jacques-Louis David

    Chronology: The French Revolution and the Reign of Napoleon

    Napoleon and the Arts

    Antonio Canova

    Marie-Guillemine Benoist

    Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

    MAP: The Napoleonic Empire, 1812

    Developments in America

    The American Revolution

    Chronology: The American Campaign for Independence

    The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson

    MAP: The United States, showing states and territories during Jefferson’s presidency, c. 1803

    John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence

    Greenough’s George Washington

    22: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

    The Romantic Movement

    Architecture

    Music and Poetry: Romanticism in Music and Poetry

    Sculpture

    Painting in Europe

    William Blake

    Media and Technique: Watercolor

    Théodore Géricault

    Society and Culture: The Salon

    Eugene Delacroix

    Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

    Media and Technique: Aquatint

    Germany: Caspar David Friedrich

    Theory: The Aesthetic of the Sublime

    England: John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner

    Painting in the United States

    Thomas Cole

    Literature: American Romantic Writers

    Folk Art: Edward Hicks

    Albert Bierstadt

    23: Nineteenth-Century Realism

    Cultural and Political Context

    Philosophy: The Communist Manifesto

    Literature: Realism

    French Realism

    Jean-François Millet

    Rosa Bonheur

    Gustave Courbet

    Honoré Daumier

    Media and Technique: Lithography

    Society and Culture: Daumier and Satire

    Photography

    France: Nadar

    England: Julia Margaret Cameron

    America: Mathew Brady

    American Realist Painting

    Thomas Eakins’s Gross Clinic

    Henry Ossawa Tanner

    French Realism in the 1860s

    Édouard Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’Herbe

    Manet’s Olympia

    Architecture

    Joseph Paxton: The Crystal Palace

    Bridges: The Roeblings

    The Eiffel Tower

    Origins of the Skyscraper: Louis Sullivan

    24: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism

    Context and Style

    Society and Culture: Urban Renewal during the Second Empire

    Painting in France

    Édouard Manet: 1880s

    Pierre-Auguste Renoir

    Edgar Degas

    Mary Cassatt

    Berthe Morisot

    Claude Monet

    Views of Paris: Renoir and Pissarro

    BEYOND THE WEST: Japanese Woodblock Prints

    French Sculpture: Auguste Rodin

    American Painting at the Turn of the Century

    Winslow Homer

    John Singer Sargent

    “Art for Art’s Sake”

    Whistler vs. Ruskin

    25: Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century

    Post-Impressionist Painting

    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

    Paul Cézanne

    An Apple a Day…

    Georges Seurat

    Vincent van Gogh

    “Dear Theo”—The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

    Paul Gauguin

    BEYOND THE WEST: Gauguin and Oceania

    Symbolism

    Society and Culture: The Symbolist Movement

    Gustave Moreau

    Edvard Munch

    Naive Painting: Henri Rousseau

    History: Freud on the Mechanisms of Dreaming

    26: The Early Twentieth Century: Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse

    Culture and Context

    Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse

    Symbolism: Picasso’s Blue Period

    Literature: Wallace Stevens: “The Man with the Blue Guitar”

    BEYOND THE WEST: African Art and the European Avant-Garde

    Fauvism: Matisse in 1905-1906

    Expressionism

    The Bridge (Die Brücke)

    Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

    Emil Nolde

    The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter)

    Vassily Kandinsky

    Franz Marc

    Käthe Kollwitz

    Matisse after Fauvism

    Harmony in Red

    Dance 1

    Icarus

    27: Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles

    Cubism

    Precursors

    History: Gertrude Stein

    Analytic Cubism: Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

    Collage

    Media and Technique: Collage and Assemblage

    Synthetic Cubism

    Picasso’s Surrealism

    Picasso’s Guernica

    Other Early Twentieth-Century Developments

    Futurism

    Fernand Léger’s The City

    Piet Mondrian

    The Armory Show

    Stuart Davis

    Aaron Douglas and the Harlem Renaissance

    Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism

    Postscript

    Architecture

    Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie Style

    Architecture: Cantilever

    The International Style

    Holland: De Stijl

    Germany: The Bauhaus

    France: Le Corbusier

    The United States

    28: Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Regionalism, and Abstraction

    Dada

    Marcel Duchamp

    Jean (Hans) Arp

    Surrealism

    Man Ray

    Paul Klee

    Salvador Dalí

    Joan Miró

    René Magritte

    Sculpture Derived from Surrealism

    Max Ernst

    Alberto Giacometti

    Henry Moore

    Alexander Calder

    The United States: Regionalism and Social Realism

    Grant Wood

    Jacob Lawrence

    Edward Hopper

    James VanDerZee

    Dorothea Lange

    Mexico

    Diego Rivera

    Frida Kahlo

    Toward American Abstraction

    Alfred Stieglitz

    Georgia O’Keeffe

    Transcendental Painting

    Society and Culture: American Self-Taught Painters

    29: Mid-Century American Abstraction

    The Teachers: Hans Hofmann and Josef Albers

    Abstract Expressionism

    The New York School

    Arshile Gorky

    Theory: The Avant-Garde

    Action Painting

    Jackson Pollock

    Media and Technique: Navajo Sand Painting

    Franz Kline

    Willem de Kooning

    Mark Rothko

    Color Field Painting

    Helen Frankenthaler

    Media and Technique: Acrylic

    Frank Stella

    Ellsworth Kelly

    West Coast Abstraction: Richard Diebenkorn

    Sculpture

    Isamu Noguchi

    David Smith

    Louise Nevelson

    30: Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism

    Pop Art in England: Richard Hamilton

    Pop Art in the United States

    Jasper Johns

    Robert Rauschenberg

    Andy Warhol

    Roy Lichtenstein

    Tom Wesselmann

    Wayne Thiebaud

    Sculpture

    Op Art

    Minimalism

    Donald Judd

    Dan Flavin

    Agnes Martin

    Eva Hesse

    Conceptualism:

    Joseph Kosuth

    Sol Lewitt

    Action Sculpture: Joseph Beuys

    31: Continuity, Innovation, and Globalization

    Return to Realism

    Chuck Close

    Richard Estes

    Duane Hanson

    Ron Mueck and Constantin Brancusi

    Performance

    Gilbert and George

    Laurie Anderson

    Architecture

    The Geodesic Dome: R. Buckminster Fuller

    Post-Modern Architecture

    Environmental Art

    Robert Smithson

    Andy Goldsworthy

    Christo and Jeanne-Claude

    Urban Environment

    Society and Culture: Government Funding and Censorship

    Installations

    Feminist Art

    Judy Chicago

    Kiki Smith

    Elizabeth Murray

    Race and Gender

    Bob Thompson

    Romare Bearden

    Kara Walker

    Yasumasa Morimura

    Plus ça change…

    Susan Rothenberg

    Anselm Kiefer

    Maya Ying Lin

    Nancy Graves

    Bruce Nauman and Marcel Duchamp

    Cindy Sherman

    Video Art

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