Main Description
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.
Chapter 1: Why Do We Study the History of Art?The Artistic ImpulseThe Values of ArtArt and IllusionArchitectureArcheology and Art HistoryMethodlogies of Art HistoryChapter 2: The Language of Art CompositionPlaneBalanceLineDepthSpaceShapeLight and ColorTextureStylistic Terminology Chapter 3: Prehistoric Western EuropeThe Stone Age PaleolithicBeyond the West: Rock Paintings of AustraliaMesolithicNeolithic Chapter 4: The Ancient Near East Neolithic EraMesopotamiaAnatolia: The Hittites Iran Chapter 5: Ancient Egypt The Gift of the NileThe PharaohsThe Egyptian Concept of KingshipThe Palette of NarmerThe Old KingdomThe Middle KingdomThe New KingdomTutankhamon’s Tomb Chapter 6: The AegeanCycladic CivilizationDiscoveries at TheraMinoan CivilizationMycenaean Civilization Chapter 7: The Art of Ancient Greece Cultural IdentityGovernment and PhilosophyLiterature and Drama “Man is the Measure of Things” Painting and PotterySculptureClassical Architecture: The Athenian AcropolisLate Classical StyleHellenistic Period Chapter 8: The Art of the EtruscansArchitecturePottery and SculptureWomen in Etruscan ArtFunerary Art Chapter 9: Ancient RomeArchitectural TypesSculptural TypesMural Painting Chapter 10: Early Christian and Byzantine ArtA New ReligionConstantine and ChristianityEarly Christian ArtJustinian and the Byzantine StyleThe CodexLater Byzantine Developments Chapter 11: The Early Middle AgesIslamic ArtNorthern European ArtOttonian Period Chapter 12: Romanesque ArtEconomic and Political DevelopmentPilgrimage RoadsArchitectureManuscriptsMural PaintingThe Bayeux TapestryChapter 13: Gothic ArtOrigins of the Gothic Style in FranceEarly Gothic Architecture: Saint-DenisElements of Gothic Architecture Romanesque Precursors of GothicThe Age of CathedralsChartresLater Developments of the French Gothic Style English GothicChapter 14: Precursors of the Renaissance Thirteenth–Century ItalyFourteenth–Century ItalyThe International Gothic StyleChapter 15: The Early Renaissance Italy in the Fifteenth Century Early Fifteenth–Century PaintingEarly Fifteenth–Century Sculpture: Donatello’s DavidSecond–Generation DevelopmentsFifteenth–Century Painting in the NetherlandsChapter 16: The High Renaissance in ItalyArchitecturePainting and SculptureDevelopments in VeniceChapter 17: Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in ItalyMannerismCounter–Reformation PaintingArchitecture: Andrea PalladioChapter 18: Sixteenth–Century Painting in Northern EuropeThe NetherlandsGermanyChapter 19: The Baroque Style in Western EuropeBaroque StyleArchitectureSculpture: Gianlorenzo BerniniItalian Baroque PaintingBaroque Painting in Northern EuropeBeyond the West: Mughal Art Spanish Baroque Painting: Diego VelázquezFrench Baroque Painting: Nicolas PoussinChapter 20: Rococo and the Eighteenth CenturyBeyond the West: The PagodaThe Age of EnlightenmentRococo PaintingRococo ArchitectureArchitectural RevivalsBourgeois Realism: Jean-Baptiste ChardinAmerican PaintingChapter 21: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesThe Neoclassical Style in FranceDevelopment in AmericaChapter 22: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesRomantic Trends in ArchitectureSculpture: François RudePaintingChapter 23: Nineteenth-Century RealismFrench Realist PaintingPhotographyAmerican Realist PaintingFrench Realism of the 1860sArchitectureChapter 24: Nineteenth-Century ImpressionismPainting in FranceBeyond the West: Japanese Woodblock PrintsFrench Sculpture: Auguste RodinAmerican Painting at the Turn of the Century “Art for Art’s Sake”Chapter 25: Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth CenturyPost-Impressionist PaintingBeyond the West: Gaugin and OceaniaSymbolismNaïve Painting: Henri RousseauChapter 26: The Early Twentieth Century: Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse Fauvism ExpressionismMatisse Chapter 27: Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth–Century Styles CubismOther Early Twentieth-Century DevelopmentsArchitectureThe International StyleChapter 28: Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, and AbstractionDadaSurrealismSculpture Derived from SurrealismThe United States: Regionalism and Social RealismMexicoToward American AbstractionChapter 29: Abstract ExpressionismThe Teachers: Hans Hoffman and Josef AlbersAbstract ExpressionismAction PaintingColor Field PaintingWest Coast Abstraction: Richard DiebenkornSculptureChapter 30: Pop Art, Op Art , and MinimalismPop Art in England: Richard HamiltonPop Art in the United States: PaintingSculptureOp ArtMinimalismAction Sculpture: Joseph BeuysChapter 31: Innovation, Continuity, and Globalization Return to RealismArchitectureEnvironmental ArtFeminist Art”Plus ça change…”Glossary Suggestions for Further Reading Index
