A History of Western Art - Brossura

Adams, Laurie

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ISBN 10: 0073379220 ISBN 13: 9780073379227

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2010

Riassunto

Appropriate for one-semester art history surveys or historically-focused art appreciation classes, A History of Western Art, Fifth Edition, combines sound scholarship, lavish visuals, and a lively narrative to provide students with an accessible and engaging introduction to art history. Focusing on the Western canon, 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.

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L'autore:

Laurie Schneider Adams received a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University. She is Professor of Art History at John Jay College, City University of New York, where she teaches art survey, and at the Graduate Center, where she teaches courses on the Italian Renaissance and on Art and Psychoanalysis. She has published articles on iconography and on art and psychology. She is the editor of Giotto in Perspectiveand of the journal Source: Notes in the History of Art; the author of A History of Western Art, The Methodologies of Art, Art and Psychoanalysis, and Art on Trial; and co-author (with Maria Grazia Pernis) of Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Malatesta: The Eagle and the Elephant and of 5 children's books (with Allison Coudert).

Contenuti:

1: Why Do We Study the History of Art?

The Artistic Impulse

Chronology

Why Do We Value Art?

Material Value

Intrinsic Value

Brancusi’s Bird: Manufactured Metal or a Work of Art?

Religious Value

Nationalistic Value

Psychological Value

Art and Illusion

Images and Words

Traditions Equating Artists with Gods

Art and Identification

Reflections and Shadows: Legends of How Art Began

Image Magic

Architecture

Archaeology and Art History

Methodologies of Art History

Formalism

Iconography and Iconology

Marxism

Feminism

Biography and Autobiography

Semiology

Deconstruction

Psychoanalysis

2: The Language of Art

Composition

Plane

Balance

Line

Expressive Qualities of Line

Lines Used for Modeling

Depth

The Illusion of Depth

Perspective

Space

Shape

Types of Shapes

Expressive Qualities of Shape

Light and Color

Physical Properties of Color

Expressive Qualities of Color

Texture

Stylistic Terminology

3: Prehistoric Western Europe

The Stone Age

Paleolithic

MAP: Prehistoric Site in Europe

Sculpture

Technique: Carving

Technique: Modeling

Technique: Categories of Sculpture

Painting

Media: Pigment

BEYOND THE WEST: Rock Paintings of Australia

Mesolithic

Neolithic

Menhirs

Dolmens

Cromlechs

Architecture: Post-and-Lintel Construction

4: The Ancient Near East

The Neolithic Era

MAP: The Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East

Jericho

Çatal Hüyük

Mesopotamia

Primary Source: Inanna

The Uruk Period

Ziggurats

Religion: Mesopotamian Gods

Cylinder Seals

From Pictures to Words

Literature: Gilgamesh

Sumer: Early Dynastic Period

Akkad

Society and Culture: Sargon of Akkad

Neo-Sumerian

The Ziggurat of Ur

Babylon

Society and Culture: The Law Code of Hammurabi

Anatolia: The Hittites

Assyria

Technique: Glazing

The Neo-Babylonian Empire

Architecture: Round Arches

Iran

Society and Culture: Destroying the Archaeological Record

The Scythians

Achaemenid Persia

Architecture: Columns

5: Ancient Egypt

The Gift of the Nile

The Pharaohs

The Egyptian Concept of Kingship

Chronology: Egyptian Kings

MAP: Ancient Egypt and Nubia

The Palette of Narmer

Religion: Egyptian Gods

The Old Kingdom

Pyramids

Mummification

Sculpture

Technique: The Egyptian Canon of Proportion

The Middle Kingdom

The New Kingdom

Temples

Painting

The Amarna Period

Tutankhamon’s Tomb

Egypt and Nubia

The Rock-Cut Temple of Ramses II

Meroë

6: The Aegean

Cycladic Civilization

MAP: The Ancient Aegean World

Minoan Civilization

The Palace at Knossos

Media and Technique: Minoan Fresco

Religion

Pottery

Society and Culture: Minoan Scripts

Discoveries at Thera

The Frescoes

Mycenaean Civilization

Myth: The Legend of Agamemnon

7: The Art of Ancient Greece

MAP: Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean

Cultural Identity

Government and Philosophy

Philosophy: Plato on Artists

Society and Culture: Women in Ancient Greece

Literature and Drama

“Man Is the Measure of All Things”

Religion: Greek Gods and Their Roman Counterparts

Painting and Pottery

Geometric Style

Orientalizing Style

Archaic Style

Media and Technique: Greek Vases

Late Archaic to Classical Style

Classical to Hellenistic Style

Sculpture

Archaic Style

Early Classical Style

Media and Technique: The Lost-Wax Process

Classical Style

Classical Architecture: The Athenian Acropolis

The Parthenon

Architecture: Plan of the Parthenon

Architecture: The Greek Orders

Myth: Medusa

The Temple of Athena Nike

The Erechtheum

Late Classical Style

The Greek Theater

Architecture: Greek Theater

Sculpture

Style: The “Hermes of Praxiteles”

Hellenistic Period

Sculpture

Myth: The Trojan Horse

8: The Art of the Etruscans

MAP: Etruscan and Roman Italy

Architecture

Pottery and Sculpture

Women in Etruscan Art

Funerary Art

Cinerary Containers

Sarcophagi

Tomb Paintings

9: Ancient Rome

MAP: The Roman Empire, A.D. 14-282

Primary Source: Virgil’s Aeneid

Chronology: Roman Periods

Architecture: Arches, Domes, and Vaults

Architectural Types

Domestic Architecture

Public Buildings

History: Julius Caesar

Media: Roman Building Materials

Religious Architecture

Commemorative Architecture

Primary Source: Josephus and the Jewish Wars

Sculptural Types

The Sarcophagus

Media: Color Symbolism in Roman Marble

Portraits

History: Marcus Aurelius: Emperor and Philosopher

Pictorial Style

Painting and Mosaic

10: Early Christian and Byzantine Art

A New Religion

Constantine and Christianity

The Divergence of East and West

Religion: Christianity and the Scriptures

Early Christian Art

Sarcophagi

Religion: Christian Symbolism

History: The Catacombs

Basilicas

Religion: Saint Peter

Centrally Planned Churches

Justinian and the Byzantine Style

San Vitale

Media and Technique: Mosaics

MAP: The Byzantine Empire under Justinian I, A.D. 565

Hagia Sophia

The Codex

The Vienna Genesis

Media: Parchment

Later Byzantine Developments

11: The Early Middle Ages

Islamic Art

Religion: Islam

The Great Mosque, Córdoba

Northern European Art

Anglo-Saxon Metalwork

Primary Source: Beowulf

Hiberno-Saxon Art

Media and Technique: Manuscript Illumination

The Carolingian Period

MAP: The Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne, 814

Manuscripts

Religion: Revelation and the Four Symbols of the Evangelists

Monasteries

Ottonian Period

12: Romanesque Art

Economic and Political Developments

Society and Culture: Feudalism

Pilgrimage Roads

MAP: Pilgrimage Roads to Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Architecture

Sainte-Foy at Conques

Developments at Autun

The Stavelot Reliquary Triptych

Manuscripts

Mural Painting

The “Bayeux Tapestry”

13: Gothic Art

Origins of the Gothic Style in France

Early Gothic Architecture: Saint-Denis

Religion: The Life of Saint Denis

Elements of Gothic Architecture

Rib Vaults

Piers

Flying Buttresses

Pointed Arches

The Skeleton

Stained-Glass Windows

Society and Culture: Guilds

Romanesque Precursors of Gothic

The Age of Cathedrals

Chartres

Exterior Architecture of Chartres

Exterior Sculpture of Chartres

Interior of Chartres

Later Developments of the French Gothic Style

Reims

Paris: Reliquary Chapel of Sainte-Chapelle

The Saint Louis Psalter

English Gothic

Salisbury Cathedral

German Gothic

Cologne Cathedral

14: Precursors of the Renaissance

Thirteenth-Century Italy

Nicola Pisano

Cimabue

MAP: Leading Art Centers in Renaissance Italy

Fourteenth-Century Italy

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0073379220
• ISBN 13: 9780073379227
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 620