Art history for dummies

Art history for dummies

Jesse Bryant Wilder

Book - 2007

Discover how to look at and interpret art; what art tells us about early civilizations; the role of the artist through the centuries; the impact of war on art; how art affects today's world.

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Subjects
Art > History.
Published
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley 2007.
Language
English
Main Author
Jesse Bryant Wilder (-)
Physical Description
434 pages 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes list of online resources (pages 399-413) and index.
ISBN
9780470099100
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Mankind in the Looking Glass: Art History 101
  • Chapter 1. Art Tour through the Ages
  • Chapter 2. Why People Make Art and What It All Means
  • Chapter 3. The Major Artistic Periods and Movements
  • Part II. From Caves to Colosseum: Ancient Art
  • Chapter 4. Magical Hunters and Psychedelic Cave Artists
  • Chapter 5. Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art
  • Chapter 6. One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art
  • Chapter 7. Greek Art, the Olympian Ego, and the Inventors of the Modern World
  • Chapter 8. Etruscan and Roman Art: It's All Greek to Me!
  • Part III. Art after the Fall of Rome: a.d. 500-a.d. 1760
  • Chapter 9. The Graven Image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art
  • Chapter 10. Mystics, Marauders, and Manuscripts: Medieval Art
  • Chapter 11. Born-Again Culture: The Early and High Renaissance
  • Chapter 12. Venetian Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North
  • Chapter 13. Art That'll Stretch Your Neck: Mannerism
  • Chapter 14. When the Renaissance Went Baroque
  • Chapter 15. Going Loco with Rococo
  • Part IV. The Industrial Revolution and Artistic Devolution: 1760-1900
  • Chapter 16. All Roads Lead Back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical Art
  • Chapter 17. Romanticism: Reaching Within and Acting Out
  • Chapter 18. What You See Is What You Get: Realism
  • Chapter 19. First Impressions: Impressionism
  • Chapter 20. Making Their Own Impression: The Post-Impressionists
  • Part V. Twentieth-Century Art and Beyond
  • Chapter 21. From Fauvism to Expressionism
  • Chapter 22. Cubist Puzzles and Finding the Fast Lane with the Futurists
  • Chapter 23. What You See Is What You Don't Get: From Nonobjective Art to Abstract Expressionism
  • Chapter 24. Anything-Goes Art: Fab Fifties and Psychedelic Sixties
  • Chapter 25. Photography: From a Science to an Art
  • Chapter 26. The New World: Postmodern Art
  • Part VI. The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 27. Ten Must-See Art Museums
  • Chapter 28. Ten Great Books by Ten Great Artists
  • Chapter 29. Ten Brushstrokes That Shook the World
  • Appendix: Online Resources
  • Index

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