The Visual Arts: A History, Revised Edition plus MyArtKit Access Card
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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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Product details
- Mixed media product
- 100 x 100 x 100mm | 100g
- 21 Jul 2011
- Pearson Education Limited
- Harlow, United Kingdom
- 7th edition
- 1408296772
- 9781408296776
- 2,991,567
Table of contents
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 C
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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 C
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