A History of Western Art

Appropriate for one-semester art history surveys or historically-focused art appreciation classes, A History of Western Art, Revised Fourth Edition, features additional color which provides students with a greater understanding of the works of art. Focusing on the Western canon of art history, 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. World Views is available at a discount when packaged with A History of Western Art.

ISBN 0073526460   Weight (grammes) 2014 ISBN13 9780073526461 (What's this?)   Published in London Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe   Previous ISBN 9780072997682 Imprint McGraw Hill Higher Education   Height (mm) 274 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 215 Publication date 15 Dec 2006   Spine width (mm) 30 Pages 640   Academic level Tertiary education Volumes 1

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 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 Chapter 6: The Aegean Cycladic Civilization Discoveries at Thera Minoan Civilization 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 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 American Painting Chapter 21: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries The Neoclassical Style in France Development 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 Tw

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