Starter Kit.
Introduction.
1. Prehistory and Prehistoric Art in Europe.
The Paleolithic Period. The Neolithic Period. The Bronze Age. The
Iron Age. The Object Speaks: Prehistoric Woman and Man.
2. Art of the Ancient Near East.
The Fertile Crescent. Early Neolithic Cities. Sumer. Akkad. Lagash.
Babylon and Mari. Assyria. Neo-Babylonia. Elam. Anatolia. Persia.
The Object Speaks: The Code of Hammurabi.
3. Art of Ancient Egypt.
Neolithic And Predynastic Egypt. Early Dynastic Egypt. The Old
Kingdom. The Middle Kingdom. The New Kingdom. The Continuing
Influence of Egyptian Art. The Object Speaks: The Temples of
Rameses II.
4. Aegean Art.
The Aegean World. The Cycladic Islands in the Bronze Age. Mainland
Greece and the Mycenaean Civilization. The Object Speaks: “The Mask
of Agamemnon.”
5. Art of Ancient Greece.
The Emergence of Greek Civilization. The Geometric Period. The
Orientalizing Period. The Archaic Period. The Classical Period in
Greek Art. The Transitional, or Early Classical, Period. The
Fifth-Century Classical Period. Classical Art of the Fourth
Century. The Hellenistic Period. The Object Speaks: The
Parthenon.
6. Etruscan Art and Roman Art.
Etruscan Civilization. Roman History. The Republican and Augustan
Periods. The Empire. The Roman City and Home. The Late Empire. The
Object Speaks: The Unswept Floor.
7. Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art.
Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire. Jewish and Early Christian
Art. Imperial Christian Architecture and Art. Early Byzantine Art.
Middle Byzantine Art. Late Byzantine Art. The Object Speaks: The
Archangel Michael.
8. Islamic Art.
Islam And Early Islamic Society. Art During the Early Caliphates.
Later Islamic Society and Art.
9. Art of India before 1100.
The Indian Subcontinent. Indus Valley Civilization. The Vedic
Period. The Maurya Period. The Period of the Shungas and Early
Andhras. The Kushan and Later Andhra Period. The Gupta Period. The
Post-Gupta Period. The Early Medieval Period.
10. Chinese Art before 1280.
The Middle Kingdom. Neolithic Cultures. Bronze Age China. The
Chinese Empire: Qin Dynasty. Han Dynasty. Six Dynasties. Sui and
Tang Dynasties. Song Dynasty.
11. Japanese Art before 1392.
Prehistoric Japan. Asuka Period. Nara Period. Heian Period.
Kamakura Period. The Object Speaks: Monk Sewing.
12. Art of the Americas before 1300.
The New World. Mesoamerica. Central America. South America: The
Central Andes. North America.
13. Art of Ancient Africa.
The Lure of Ancient Africa. Saharan Rock Art. Sub-Saharan
Civilizations. Other Urban Centers.
14. Early Medieval Art in Europe.
The Middle Ages. The British Isles and Scandinavia. Christian
Spain. Langobard Italy. Carolingian Europe. Scandinavia: The
Vikings. Ottonian Europe. The Object Speaks: The Doors of Bishop
Bernward.
15. Romanesque Art.
Romanesque Culture. France and Northern Spain. The North Sea
Kingdoms. The Holy Roman Empire. Ancient Rome and Romanesque Italy.
The Object Speaks: The Bayeux Tapestry.
16. Gothic Art.
The Gothic Style. France. England. Spain. Germany and the Holy
Roman Empire. Italy. The Object Speaks: Notre-Dame of Paris.
17. Early Renaissance Art in Europe.
The Renaissance and Humanism. Art of the French Ducal Courts. Art
of Flanders. The Spread of the Flemish Style. The Graphic Arts. Art
of Italy. The Object Speaks: The Foundling Hospital.
18. Renaissance Art in Sixteenth-Century Europe.
Europe in the Sixteenth Century. The Classical Phase of the
Renaissance in Italy. The Renaissance and Reformation in Germany.
Late Renaissance Art in Italy. Renaissance Art in France.
Renaissance Art in Spain. Renaissance Painting in the Netherlands.
Renaissance Art in England. The Object Speaks: Feast in the House
of Levi.
19. Baroque Art in Europe and North America.
The Baroque Period. Italy. France. Habsburg Germany and Austria.
Habsburg Spain. Spanish Colonies in the Americas. The Southern
Netherlands/Flanders. The Northern Netherlands/United Dutch
Republic. England. English Colonies in North America. The Object
Speaks: Brueghel and Rubens's Sight.
20. Art of India after 1100.
Late Medieval Period. Mughal Period. The Modern Period.
21. Chinese Art after 1280.
The Mongol Invasions. Yuan Dynasty. Ming Dynasty. Qing Dynasty. The
Modern Period.
22. Japanese Art after 1392.
Muromachi Period. Momoyama Period. Edo Period. The Meiji and Modern
Periods.
23. Art of the Americas after 1300.
Indigenous American Art. Mexico and South America. North America.
Other Contemporary Native American Artists. The Object Speaks:
Hamatsa Mask.
24. Art of Pacific Cultures.
The Peopling of the Pacific. Australia. Melanesia. Micronesia.
Polynesia. Recent Art in Oceania.
25. Art of Africa in the Modern Era.
Traditional and Contemporary Africa. Children and the Continuity of
Life. The Spirit World. Leadership. Death and Ancestors.
Contemporary Art.
26. Eighteenth-Century Art in Europe and North America.
The Enlightenment and Its Revolutions. The Rococo Style in Europe.
Art in Italy. Revivals and Romanticism in Britain. Art in France.
Art in North America. The Object Speaks: Georgian Silver.
27. Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United
States.
Europe and the United States in the Nineteenth Century.
Neoclassicism and Romanticism in France. Romanticism in Spain.
Romantic Landscape Painting in Europe. Naturalistic, Romantic, and
Neoclassical American Art. Revival Styles in Architecture Before
1850. Early Photography in Europe. New Materials and Technology in
Architecture at Midcentury. French Academic Art and Architecture.
French Naturalism and Realism and their Spread.
Late-Nineteenth-Century Art in Britain. Impressionism. Post
Impressionism. Art in the United States. The Object Speaks: Raft of
the “Medusa.”
28. The Rise of Modernism in Europe and North America.
Europe and the United States in the Early Twentieth Century. Early
Modernist Tendencies in Europe. Cubism in Europe. Early Modernist
Tendencies in the United States. Early Modern Architecture.
Modernism in Europe Between the Wars. Art and Architecture in the
United States Between the Wars. Early Modern Art in Canada. The
Object Speaks: Portrait of a German Officer.
29. The International Avant-Garde since 1945.
The World Since 1945. Postwar European Art. Abstract Expressionism.
Alternatives to Abstract Expressionism. From Modernism to
Postmodernism. Postmodernism. The Object Speaks: The Dinner
Party.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.
Credits.
Marilyn Stokstad, teacher, art historian, and museum curator, has been a leader in her field for decades and has served as president of the College Art Association and the International Center of Medieval Art. In 2002, she was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the National Women's Caucus for Art. In 1997 she was awarded the Governor's Arts Award as Kansas Art Educator of the Year and an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters by Carleton College. She is Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She has also served in various leadership capacities at the University's Spencer Museum of Art and is Consultative Curator of Medieval Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.
This newly expanded edition of a major art history survey continues to fulfill the function of the original (LJ 4/15/96), which was written as a classroom tool. Stokstad and Cateforis (art history, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence) here include additional media such as textiles, jewelry, furniture, and photography thereby enlarging the scope and approach to the study of art history as well as recognizing the social, cultural, and political aspects of the arts throughout the world. Arranged topically, each section opens with a color illustration and a vignette on a work representing the period covered. The numerous color illustrations, text boxes, and varying page designs are aimed at making this a more interesting and user-friendly research tool. Much of the text described as "the cumulative efforts of a distinguished group of scholars and educators" has been rewritten to include newly recovered or restored works of art, themes of controversy and debate, and changes in scholarship and attribution. Each volume includes an appropriate glossary, bibliography, and index. Designed to make the introduction to art history intellectually stimulating and visually exciting, this accessible, attractive edition is recommended for the reference shelves of students and teachers alike. Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Destined to establish itself as a modern classic, this hugely informative, wholly enjoyable global history of art from prehistoric times to the present views art as a fundamental, inextricable vehicle for the human spirit. Although Western visual art and architecture receive the most attention, there is also extensive coverage of India, China, Japan, Africa, Islamic art and Pacific cultures. Few texts so wide-rangingly connect the artistic output of each period to the artists' lives, sources of funding and historical, social and political context. The 1625 stunning illustrations (761 in color) are unrivaled in their adventurous selection and quality by any book of this type. Time lines chart parallel developments across cultures and civilizations; inserts spotlight literary and intellectual trends and artists' techniques. Stokstad, art history professor at the University of Kansas, has produced both a college text and a layperson's guide that is more fun than H.W. Janson's standard History of Art, and more multicultural. (Feb.)
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