Art History For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119868668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 448 str.

Jesse Bryant Wilder

Spis treści

Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with Art History 5Chapter 1: Art Tour through the Ages 7Chapter 2: Why People Make Art and What It All Means 15Chapter 3: The Major Artistic Movements 21Part 2: From Caves to Colosseum: Ancient Art 27Chapter 4: Magical Hunters and Psychedelic Cave Artists 29Chapter 5: Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art 37Chapter 6: One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art 47Chapter 7: Greek Art, the Olympian Ego, and the Inventors of the Modern World 63Chapter 8: Etruscan and Roman Art: It's All Greek to Me! 79Part 3: Art after the Fall of Rome: ad 500-ad 1760 93Chapter 9: The Graven Image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art 95Chapter 10: Mystics, Marauders, and Manuscripts: Medieval Art 113Chapter 11: Born-Again Culture: The Early and High Renaissance 137Chapter 12: Venetian Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North 157Chapter 13: Art That'll Stretch Your Neck: Mannerism 177Chapter 14: When the Renaissance Went Baroque 193Chapter 15: Going Loco with Rococo 219Part 4: The Industrial Revolution Revs Up Art's Evolution: 1760-1900 229Chapter 16: All Roads Lead Back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical Art 231Chapter 17: Romanticism: Reaching Within and Acting Out 247Chapter 18: What You See Is What You Get: Realism 259Chapter 19: First Impressions: Impressionism 281Chapter 20: Making Their Own Impression: The Post-Impressionists 297Part 5: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art 313Chapter 21: From Fauvism to Expressionism 315Chapter 22: Cubist Puzzles and Finding the Fast Lane with the Futurists 329Chapter 23: Nonobjective Art: Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism 343Chapter 24: Anything-Goes Art: Fab Fifties and Psychedelic Sixties 365Chapter 25: Photography: From Science to Art 381Chapter 26: The New World: Postmodern Art 393Part 6: The Part of Tens 407Chapter 27: Ten Must-See Art Museums 409Chapter 28: Ten Great Books by Ten Great Artists 413Index 417

O autorze

Jesse Bryant Wilder is the founder, publisher, and editor of NEXUS, a series of interdisciplinary textbooks used in high schools around the country. He has written several textbooks on art and art history and was an art critic for The Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com.