The Visual Arts: A History
Hugh Honour|John Fleming
(NOTE: Each chapter contains a timechart and box features.) Starter Kit. Introduction. Art as Craft. Systems of Building. Sculptural Techniques Materials. Painting Print-making. Photography. Pictorial Representation. Perspective. Color. Style Individual Expression. The Power Images. Women Artists. History Art. I. FOUNDATIONS OF ART. 1. Before History. the Hunters. Cave Mesolithic Farmers. Neolithic Architecture. Stonehenge. 2. Early Civilizations. Mesopotamia. Sumer. Akkadian Ziggurats. Babylon. Indus Valley. Ancient Egypt. Predynastic. Dynastic. Old Kingdom Sculpture Painting. Middle Kingdom. Aegean. Minoan Crete. Mycenae Mainland. China. Shang Dynasty. 3. Developments Across Continents. Hittites. Discovery Iron. New in Akhenaten. Ramesside Assyria Narrative Relief. Iran. Archaemenid Persepolis. Zhou Americas. Olmecs. Peru. Africa: Nok Culture. 4. Greeks Their Neighbors. Archaic Greece. Male Nude. Polis. Classical Period. Parthenon. Naturalism Idealization. Vase Stelae. Late Barbarian Alternatives: Scythians Animal Style. Hallstatt La Tene. Iberia Sardinia. Etruscans. 5. Hellenistic Roman Plato, Aristotle Arts. Allegory. Mosaics. Domestic Temples Public Works. Colosseum Invention Concrete. Pantheon. Sculpture. Towards Definition Antique II. ART AND THE WORLD RELIGIONS. 6. Buddhism, Hinduism, Far Eastern Buddhist India. Image Buddha. Hindu Sri Lanka Java. on Southeast Asian Confucian, Daoist, Han Tang Dynasty Five Dynasties. Song Landscape Shinto Japan. Periods (794-1333). 7. Christian Byzantine Beginnings From Domus Ecclesiae to Basilica. Christ. Ravenna. Ecclesiastical Hagia Sophia. Tradition. Icons Iconoclasts. Triumph Orthodoxy. Northern Europe. Interlace Illumination. Western Carolingian Renovation. Imagery. 8. Islamic Umayyad Abbasid Spain. Samanid Seljuk Decoration. III. SACRED SECULAR 9. Medieval Christendom. Ottonian Romanesque Architecture Italy. Innovations Gothic High Gothic. Stained Glass Flying Buttresses. Economics Theology. English German Italian Giotto. Secular International 10. Fifteenth Century Beginning Renaissance. Brunelleschi. Masaccio. 'Progress' A Flanders. Van Eyck van der Weyden. Alberti. Donatello. Departures. Church. Fra Angelico, Uccello, Piero della Francesca. Botticelli. Venetian Synthesis. Mantegna Bellini. Humanism. Durer. 11. Sixteenth Reform North. Hieronymus Bosch. Grunewald. Protestant Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci. Harmony, Unity, Raphael Michelangelo. Giorgione. Titian. Tintoretto Veronese. Sansovino, Palladio, Laws Harmony. Mannerism Mannerisms. Correggio Mannerist 'License'. Pieter Bruegel Elder. El Greco. 12. Americas, Africa, Asia. Mesoamerica Maya, Toltecs, Mixtecs. Aztecs. Incas. Africa. World. Ottoman Safavid Mughal Yuan Ming Japan-Kamakura Edo. Influence Zen Buddhism. 13. Seventeenth Rome. Baroque Rubens Dyck. Easel Bernini. Borromini. Poussin Claude. Velasquez. Dutch Hals. Rembrandt. Landscape. Still Life Genre. Vermeer. England France. 14. Enlightenment Liberty. French Rococo Watteau, de Troy, Interior. Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard. Germany Tiepolo, Guardi, Canaletto. Sense Sensibility. Hogarth Gainsborough. Classicism. Neo-Classicism, or 'True Style'. Canova David. IV. MAKING MODERN WORLD. 15. Romanticism Realism. Romanticism. Heirs Goya. Gericault. Ingres. Delacroix. Philosophy. Friedrich. Blake. Romantic Constable. Turner. Corot Etude. In Which Should We Build? Historicism Pre-Raphaelites. Courbet. Millet. Manet. USA. Photography Comes Age. 16. Traditions. Oing-Dynasty Decorative Japan Edo Hokusai Hiroshige. 17. Impressionism Post-Impressionism. Impressionism. Monet. Morisot, Renoir, Degas. Japonisme. Neo-Impressionism. Seurat, Divisionism, Socialism. Symbolism. Gaugin Gogh. Allegories Modern Life: Munch Rodin. Nouveau Sullivan Skyscraper. Cezanne. 18. Indigenous Arts Australia, Oceania. Polynesia. Melanesia Micronesia. Australia. American Northwest. Plains Arid Lands North America. V. TWENTIETH-CENTURY 19. from 1900 1919. Ways Looking. Fauves Expressionism. Matisse. Expressionists. Kandinsky. Marc. Cubism. Picasso Braque: Analytical Synthetic Orphic Futurism. Abstract Non-Objective Suprematism Founding De Stijl. Frank Lloyd Wright. 20. Between Two World Wars. Dada Surrealism. Duchamp. America Precisionist View. Diego Rivera Mexican Muralists. Breton, Chirico, Ernst. Dali, Magritte, Miro. Welded Metal: Revolution Movements. Constructivism, Stijl, Revolution. Bauhaus. 21. Post-War Post-Modern. Pollock Kooning. Still, Rothko, Newman. European Survivors. Post-Painterly Abstraction. Jasper Johns Robert Rauschenberg. Pop Photographic Minimal Conceptual Earth Land Photo-Realism Body Process Modernism Post-Modernism. 22. Continuity Change -- Twilight Second Millenium. Questioning Modernism. Neo-Expressionism. Identity. Post-Modern Multiculturalism. Video Post-Medium Condition. Construction Reality. Abjection. Function Value. Artspaces. Politics Memory. Globalization. Spectacle. Glossary. For Further Reading. Index. Maps.