Art History For Dummies
Autor JB Wilderen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780470099100
ISBN-10: 0470099100
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 190 x 233 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States
ISBN-10: 0470099100
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 190 x 233 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States
Public țintă
Readers taking high school, college, or adult art and history courses looking for a quick, easy but informative reference. Readers include art enthusiasts looking for background information on favorite works and artists.Notă biografică
Jesse Bryant Wilder holds a MAT (Masters in Teaching) and a MA in Literature and 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.
Cuprins
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.
Descriere
The fun and easy way to brush up on art history Ranging from prehistoric cave paintings to postmodern art installations, this is an ideal resource for students of art history as well as anyone who wants a lively yet systematic introduction to art through the ages.