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v.1. Prehistory to the fourteenth century -- v. 2. The fourteenth century to the present. |
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Introduction: Why Do We Study the History of Art? -- Western tradition -- Artistic impulse -- Chronology -- Why is art valued? -- Material value -- Intrinsic value -- Religious value -- Nationalistic value -- Brancusi's bird: manufactured metal or a work of art? -- Psychological value -- Art and illusion -- Images and words -- Artists and Gods -- Art and Identification -- Reflections and shadows: legends of how art began -- Image magic -- Architecture -- Why do we collect art? -- Archaeology and art history -- Archaeologicla dig -- How do we approach art? -- Methodologies of art -- How do we talk about art? -- Composition -- Plane -- Balance -- Line -- Shape -- Light and color -- Texture -- Stylistic terminology -- |
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Pt. 1. -- 1: Art Of Prehistory -- Stone age in Western Europe -- Upper paleolithic (c 50,000/45,000-c 8000 BC) -- Upper paleolithic sculpture (c 25,000 BC) -- Technique: Carving -- Technique: Categories of sculpture -- Medium: Pigment --Technique: Modeling -- Upper paleolithic painting in Spain and France (c 30,000-c 10,000 BC) -- Society and culture -- Shamanism -- Methods of interpretation: Dating and meaning of the cave paintings -- Window on the world 1: Rock paintings of Australia (c 75,000/50,000 BC) -- Mesolithic (c 8000-c 6000/4000 BC) -- Neolithic (c 6000/4000-200 BC) -- Malta -- Northern Europe -- Society and culture: Celts -- Architecture: Post-and lintel construction -- 2: Ancient Near East -- Neolithic era -- Chronology: Ancient near East and principal sites -- Jericho -- Catal Huyuk -- Mesopotamia -- Religion: Mesopotamian Gods -- Mesopotamian religion -- Uruk period (c 3500-3100 BC) -- Ziggurats -- Primary source: Hymn to Inanna -- Cylinder seals -- From pictures to words -- Literature: Epic of Gilgamesh -- Sumer: early dynastic period (c 2800-2300 BC) -- Tell Asmar -- Ur -- Akkad (c 2300-2100 BC) -- Society and culture: Sargon of Akkad -- Neo-Sumerian culture (c 2100-1900/1800 BC) -- Lagash --Ziggurat of UR -- Babylon (c 1900-539 BC) -- Law code of Hammurabi -- Anatolia: the Hitties (c1450-1200 BC) -- Assyria (c 1300-612 BC) -- Society and culture: Assyrian kings -- Neo-Babylonian empire (c 612-539 BC) -- Architeture: Round arches -- Technique: Glazing -- Iran (c 5000-331 BC) -- Scythians (8th-4th centuries BC) -- Society and culture: Destroying the archaeological record -- Recent discoveries: Filippovka cemetery -- Achaemenid Persia (539-331 BC) -- Architecture: Columns -- 3: Ancient Egypt -- Gift of the Nile -- Primary source: Hymn to Hapy -- Religion -- Pharaohs -- Religion: Egyptian Gods -- Egyptian concept of kingship -- Palette of Narmer -- Chronology: Egyptian kings -- Writing and history -- Society and culture: Royal names: Serekhs and Cartouches -- Egyptian view of death and the afterlife -- Mummification -- Funerary texts -- Old kingdom (c 2649-2150 BC) -- Pyramids -- Egyptian system of proportion -- Sculpture --Methods of Interpretation: Menkaure and Khamerernebty, an old kingdom Pharaoh and his queen: formalism, iconography, feminism, context -- Media and technique: Papyrus manuscripts -- Middle kingdom (c 1991-1700 BC) -- New kingdom (c 1550-1070 BC) -- Temples -- Painting -- Amarna period (c 1349-1336 BC) -- Tutankhamon's tomb -- Egypt and Nubia -- Early Kush -- Reconquest -- Recent discoveries: Fifty sons of Ramses II -- Napatan period -- Meroe -- 4: Aegean -- Cycladic civilization (c 3000-11th century BC) -- Minoan civilization (c 3000-c 1100 BC) -- Palace at Knossos -- Media and technique: Minoan Fresco -- Minoan religion -- Society and culture: Minoan scripts -- Pottery -- Recent discoveries at Thera -- Frescoes -- Mycenaean civilization (c 1600-1100 BC) -- Society and culture: Legend of Agamemnon -- Architecture: Cyclopaean masonry -- |
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Pt. 2. -- 5: Art Of Ancient Greece -- Cultureal identity -- Government and philosophy -- Society and culture: Delphic Oracle -- Literature and drama -- Women in Ancient Greece -- Socrates: Know thyself -- Man is the measure of all things -- Philosophy: Plato on artists -- Religion: Greek Gods and Roman counterparts -- Painting and pottery -- Geometric style (c 1000-700 BC) -- Orientalizing style (c 700-600 BC) -- Archaic style (c 600-480 BC) -- Media and technique: Greek vases -- Late archaic to classical style (c 530-400 BC) -- Classical to Late Classical style (c 450-232 BC) -- Mosaic -- Sculpture -- Orientalizing style: the lions of Delos (7th century BC) -- Archaic style (c 600-480 BC) -- Early classical style (c 480-450 BC) -- Media and technique: Lost-wax process -- Classical style (C 450-400 BC) -- Polykleitos of Argos -- Technique: Canon -- Grave Stelae -- Development of Greek architecture and architectural sculpture -- Archaic style (c 600-480 BC) --Architecture: Greek orders -- Early classical style (c480-450 BC) -- Myth: Labors of Herakles -- Classical style (c 450-400 BC) -- Parthenon (448-432 BC) -- Architecture: Plan of the Parthenon -- Late classical style (4th century BC) -- Architecture: Greek theater -- Sculpture -- Fourth-century grave Stelae -- Hellenistic sculpture (323-31 BC) -- Relief sculpture: the Great Altar or Zeus at pergamon -- Myth: Trojan horse -- 6: Art Of The Etruscans -- Architecture -- Media: Etruscan materials -- Theory: Vitrusvius on architecture -- Pottery and sculpture -- Women and Etruscan art -- Funerary art -- Cinerary containers -- Tombs -- Scarcophagi -- Tomb paintings -- Window on the world 2: China: Neolithic to first empire (c 5000-206 BC) -- Tomb of Qin Shihuangdi, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty (late 3rd century BC) -- Chronology: Early Chinese history -- Precursors: Neolithic to the bronze age (c 5000-21 BC) -- Media and technique: Piece-mold method --Society and culture: Chinese characters -- Philosophy: Daoism and Confucianism -- Tomb of the emperor of Qin: II (late 3rd century BC) -- 7: Ancient Rome -- Primary source: Virgil's Aeneid -- Chronology: Roman periods and corresponding works of art and architecture -- Literature: Ovid -- Architectural types -- Domestic architecture -- Media: Roman building materials -- Architecture: Arches, domes, and vaults -- History: Pliny the elder and Pliny the younger -- Public buildings -- History: Julius Caesar -- Primary source: Suetonius on Nero's Golden house -- Religious architecture -- Commemorative architecture -- Society and culture: Dacians -- Primary source: Josephus on the Jewish wars -- Sculptural types -- Sarcophagi -- Portraits -- Philosophy: Marcus Aurelius -- Media: Color symbolism in Roman marble -- Pictorial style: painting and mosaic -- Cross-cultural trends -- Faiyum painting -- Rome and Carthage -- Religion: Punic Gods --Window on the world 3: Indus Valley civilization and developments in South Asia (to the 3rd century AD) -- Indus Valley civilization (c 2700-1750 BC) -- Vedic period (c 1600-322 BC) -- Buddha and Buddhism -- Religion: Early Vedas -- Literature: Upanishads -- Buddhist architecture and sculpture -- Maurya period (c 321-185 BC) -- Shunga period (c 185 BC- AD 30) -- Kushan period (c AD 78/143-3rd century) -- 8: Early Christian And Byzantine Art -- New religion -- Dura Europos -- Early developments in chrisitainity -- Religion: Christianity and the scriptures -- Frequently depicted scenes from the life of Jesus -- Catacombs -- Religion: Christian symbolism -- Constantine and christianity -- Divergence of East and West -- Late Antique and early Christian art -- Basilicas -- Religion: Saint Peter -- Media and technique: Mosaics -- Centrally planned buildings -- Santa Costanza -- Galla Placidia -- Justinian and the byzantine style -- San Vitale --Methods of interpretation: Mosaics of Justinian and Theodora, emperor and empress of the Byzantine empire: formalism, iconography, feminism, biography -- Maximian's ivory thorne -- Hagia Sophia -- Architecture: Domes, pendentives, and squinches -- Expansion of Justinian's patronage -- Development of the Codex -- Vienna Genesis -- Medium: Parchment -- Image and icon -- Later Byzantine developments -- Window on the world 4: Developments in Buddhist art (1st-7th centuries AD) -- Rock-cut architecture -- Gupta sculpture -- Ajanta caves (late 5th century AD) -- Media and technique: Indian mural painting -- Buddhist expansion in China (2nd-7th centuries AD) -- |
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Pt. 3. -- 9: Early Middle Ages -- Islam -- Dome of the rock, Jerusalem -- Society and culture: Islamic calligraphy -- Mosques -- Northern European art -- Anglo-Saxon metalwork -- Beowulf -- Viking Era (c 800-1000) -- Religion: Scandinavian cosmos -- Religion: Norse Pantheon -- Rune stones and picture stones -- Hibern-Saxon art -- Stone crosses -- Manuscript illumination -- Technique: Manuscript illumination -- Carolingian period -- Palace Chapel -- Manuscripts -- Religion: Revelation and the four symbols of the Evangelists -- Monsteries -- Religion: Monasticism -- Ottonian period -- Window on the world 5: Mesoamerica and the Andes (1500 BC-AD 1500) -- Mesoamerica -- Olmec (flourished c 1200-900 BC) -- Teotihuacan (flourished c 350 - 650) -- Maya (c 1100 BC-AD 1500) -- Society and culture: Maya -- Calendar -- Maya religion -- Classic Maya -- Postclassic Maya: Chichen Itza (flourished 9th-13th centuries) -- Aztec empire (c 1300-1525) -- Art of the Andes -- Chavin: the beginning --Coastal cultures and the cult of irrigation -- Highland empires of Tiwanaku and Wari -- Inka empire: the end of an era (c 1438-1532) -- 10: Romanesque Art -- Economic and political developments -- Society and culture: Feudalism -- Prilgrimage roads -- Society and cutlure: Crusades -- Religion: Stavelot reliquary triptych -- Religion: Pilgrams, relics, and the Liber Sancti Jacobi (Book of Saint James) -- Religion: Solomon's temple and the Holy Sepulcher -- Architecture -- Sainte-Foy at Conques -- Saint-Pierre at Moissac -- Autun -- Manuscripts -- Stave church of Norway and stone interlace -- Italian Romanesque Cathedral complex at Pisa -- Mural painting -- Bayeux "tapestry" -- Romaneque precursors of Gothic: Caen and Durham -- 11: Gothic Art -- Origins of the Gothic style in France -- Early Gothic architecture: Saint-Denis -- Elements of Gothic architecture -- Ribbed vaults -- Piers -- Flying buttresses -- Pointed arches -- Stained-glass windows -- Age of cathedrals -- Chartres --Society and cutlure: Guilds -- Workers and master builders -- Religion: Saint Augustine's city of God -- Exterior architecture of chartres -- Exterior sculpture of chartres -- Religion: Antichrist -- Interior of chartres -- Later developments of the French Gothic style -- Amiens -- Reims -- Gothic architecture and scholasticism -- Sainte-Chapelle -- Saint Louis Psalter -- English gothic -- Canterbury cathedral -- Literature: Chaucer's Cantebury tales (c 1387) -- Religion: Thomas & Becket -- Salisbury cathedral -- King's college chapel, Cambridge -- German gothic -- Cologne cathedral -- Further spread of gothic -- Neo-Gothic -- Window on the world 6: Buddhist and Hindu developments in East Asia and South Asia (6th-13th centuries) -- Buddhist paradise sects -- Pagoda -- Buddhist Monastery Horyu-ji -- Hinduism -- Hindu artist -- Hindu temple -- Vishnu temple (6th century) -- Orissan temple (8th-13th centuries) -- Sythesis of Buddhism and Hinduism at Angkor -- Angkor Wat (12th century) --Angkor Thom (13th century) -- 12: Precursors Of The Renaissance -- Thirteenth-century Italy -- Nicola Pisano -- Training an artist -- Cimabue -- Fourteenth-century Italy -- Giotto -- Literature: Dante's Divine comedy -- Media and technique: Tempera -- Arena chapel -- Media and technique: Altarpieces -- Media and technique: Fresco -- Giotto's Saint Francis -- Society and culture: Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/2-1226) -- Painting in Siena -- Duccio's Rucellai Madonna -- Duccio's Maesta -- Kiss of Judas -- Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the effects of good government -- Internationl gothic style -- Simone Martini -- Primary source: Boccasccio on the Black death -- Claus Sluter -- Limbourg brothers -- |
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Pt. 4. -- 13: Early Renaissance -- Italy in the fifteenth century -- Society and cutlure: Humanist movement -- Renaissance humanism -- Society and culture: Soldiers of fortune -- Leonardo Bruni and the humanist tomb -- Competition for the Florence Baptistery doors --Brunelleschi and architecture -- History: Vasari's lives -- Ghiberti's east doors for the Baptistery -- Linear perspective -- Renaissance medal: Pisanello -- Early fifteenth-century painting -- Masaccio -- Technique: Aerial perspective -- Window on the world 7: Perspective in Asian painting -- International style in Italy: Gentile da Fabriano -- Early fifteenth-century sculpture: Danatello -- Saint Mark -- Bronze David -- Second-generation developments -- Leon Battista Alberti -- Theme of David and Goliath -- Catagno's famous men and women -- Equestrain portrait -- Media: Oil painting -- State portraits -- Monumentality versus spirituality in fifteenth-century painting: Fra Angelico and Piero della Francesca -- Piero della Francesca's Legend of the true cross -- Filippo Lippi -- Andrea Mantegna's illusionism -- Mantegna and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este -- Society and Culture: Esabella d'Este -- Botticelli's mythological subject matter -- Philosophy: Platonic academy --Question of Old-age style: Donatello and Botticelli -- Fifteenth-century painting in the Netherlands -- Campin's Merode Altarpiece -- Jan van Eyck -- Methods of interpretation: Van Eyck's Arnolfini portrait -- Rogier van der Weyden -- Later developments -- 14: High Renaissance In Italy -- Architecture -- Ideal of the circle and centrally planned churches -- Saint Peter's and the central plan -- History: Julius II -- Painting and sculpture -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Michelangelo Buonarroti -- Restoration controversy -- Raphael -- Developments in Venice -- Bellini: a family of painters -- Giorgione -- Theory: Vasari on painting versus sculpture -- Titian -- Theory: Pietro Aretio on color versus drawing -- 15: Mannerism And The Later Sixteenth Century In Italy -- Politics and religion -- History: Reformation -- Mannerism -- Mannerist painting -- Literature: John Ashbery on Parmigianino -- Theory: Vasari on women artists -- Mannerist sculpture -- Giulio Romano: the Palazzo de Te --Veronese's Last supper -- Counter-reformation painting -- Tintoretto -- History: Painter's daughter -- Religion: Loyola's spiritual exercises -- El Greco -- Religion: Mystic saints -- Late sixteenth-century architecture -- Andrea palladio -- Theory: Palldio's four books of architecture -- Vignola and Il Gesu -- 16: Sixteenth-Century Painting In Northern Europe -- History: Martin Luther -- Netherlands -- Hieronymus Bosch -- Caterina van Hemessen -- Quinten Massys -- Pieter Bruegel the elder -- Literature: W H Auden on Bruegel's Icarus -- Germany -- Albrecht Durer -- Media and Technique: Printmaking -- Society and culture: Myth of the mad artist -- Matthias Grunewald -- Lucas Cranach the elder -- Hans Holbein the younger -- History: Erasmus of Rotterdam -- |
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Pt. 5. -- 17: Baroque Style In Western Europe -- Developments in religion, politics, and science -- Baroque style -- Architecture -- Italy -- France -- Society and culture: French academy (Academie Royale de Peinture et de sculpture) -- England -- Sculpture: Gianlorenzo Bernini -- Italian baroque painting -- Annibale Carracci -- Pietro da Cortona -- Theory: Bellori on the lives of artists -- Giovanni Battista Gaulli -- Michelangelo Merisi -- da Caravaggio -- Artemisia Gentileschi -- Society and culture: Women artists from antiquity to the seventeenth century -- Baroque painting in Northern Europe -- Peter Paul Rubens -- Anthony van Dyck -- Rembrandt va Rijn -- Technique: Etching -- Frans Hals -- Judith Leyster -- Jan Vermeer -- Jacob van Ruisdael -- Maria van Oosterwyck -- Society and culture: Dutch East India company -- Spanish baroque painting -- Juan Sanchez Cotan -- Francisco de Zurbarian -- Diego Velazquez -- French baroque painting: Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain --Theory: Poussin on artistic modes -- Window on the world 8: Mughal art and the baroque -- 18: Rococo And The Eighteenth Century, And Revival Styles -- Styles -- Society and culture: Salons and Salonnieres -- Political and cultural background -- Age of enlightenment -- Philosophy: Winckelmann, Kant, and Hegel -- Rococo painting -- Antoine Watteau -- Francois Boucher -- Jean-Honore Fragonard -- Adelaide Labille-Guiard -- Bourgeois realism: Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin -- French royal portraits -- Media and technique: Pastel -- History: Prelude to the French revolution -- Painting in England -- Thomas Gainsborough -- William Hogarth -- Rococo architecture -- Balthasar Neuman -- Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann -- Dominikus Zimmerman -- Architectural revivals -- Classicism: Lord Burlington and Robert Adam -- Gothic revival: Horace Walpole -- Classical revival in painting: Angelica Kauffmann -- American Painting -- John Singleton Copley -- Benjamin West -- |
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Pt. 6. --19: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries -- Neoclassical style in France -- Chronology: French revolution and the reign of Napoleon -- Myth: Satyrs and Bacchantes -- Art in the service of the state: Jacques-Louis David -- Napolean and the arts -- Methods of interpretation: Napoleon's political iconography -- Myth: Oedipus -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- Developments in America -- Chronology: American campaign for Independence -- Architecture of Thomas Jefferson -- John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence -- Greenough's George Washington -- 20: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries -- Romantic movement -- Chronology: Nineteeth-century France -- Music and poetry: Romanticism -- Architeture -- Sculpture -- Painting in Europe -- William Blake -- Media and technique: Watercolor -- Theodore Gericault -- Society and culture: Salon -- Eugene Delacroix -- Franscisco de Goya y Lucientes -- Media and technique: Aquatint --Theory: Burke on the sublime -- Germany: Caspar David Friedrich -- History: German Sturm und Drang -- England: John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner -- Painting in the United States -- Thomas Cole -- Literature: American romantic writers -- George Bingham -- Albert Bierstadt -- George Catlin -- Folk art: Edward Hicks -- 21: Nineteenth-Century Realism -- Cultural and political context -- Theory: Communist manifesto -- French realism -- Jean-Francois Millet -- Rosa Bonheur -- Literature: Realism -- Gustave Courbet -- Honore Daumier -- Media and technique: Lithography -- Society and culture: Daumier and satire -- Photography -- France: Nadar -- England: Julia Margaret Cameron -- America: Mathew Brady -- English realism: the pre-Raphaelites -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- John Everett Millais -- American realist painting -- Thomas Eakins -- Henry Ossawa Tanner -- French realism in the 1860s -- Edouard Manet's Dejenner sur l'Herbe -- Manet's Olympia --Architecture and sculpture -- Joseph Paxton: Crystal palace -- Bridges: Roeblings -- Statue of Liberty -- Eiffel Tower -- Origins of the skyscrapper: Louis Sullivan -- 22: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism -- Context and style -- Urban renewal during the second empire -- Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann -- Jean-Louis-Charles Garnier -- Window on the world 9: Japanese woodblock prints: Edo period -- Painting -- Edouard Manet -- Methods of interpretation: Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- Halaire-Germain-Edgar Degas -- Mary Cassatt -- Berthe Morisot -- Claude Monet -- Views of Paris: Renoir and Pissarro -- French sculpture -- Hilaire-Germain-edgare Degas -- Auguste Rodin -- Artists quote art: Beauford Delaney on Radin -- American painting at the turn of the century -- Winslow Homer -- John Singer Sargent -- Art for art's sake: Whistler versus Ruskin -- 23: Post-Impressionism And The Late Nineteenth Century -- Post-impressionist painting --Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -- Paul Cezanne -- Symbolism: Apple a day -- Georges Seurat -- Vincent van Gogh -- Paul Gauguin -- Window on the world 10: Gauguin and Oceania -- Symbolist movement -- Gustave Moreau -- Edvard Munch -- Fin de Siecle developments -- Aestheticism -- Art nouveau -- Vienna secession -- Henri Rousseau -- History: Freud on the mechanisms of dreaming -- |
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Pt. 7. -- 24: Turn Of The Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, And Matisse -- Culture and context -- Picasso's blue period -- Literature: Wallace Stevens: Man with the blue guitar -- Window on the world 11: African art and the European Avant-Garde -- Henri Matisse and Fauvism -- Expressionism -- Bridge (Die Brucke) -- Theory: Art history and aesthetics in early twentieth-century Munich -- Blue rider (Der Blaue Reiter) -- Kathe Kollwitz -- Matisse after Fauvism -- Harmony in red -- Dance I -- Piano lesson -- Jeannette V -- Later works -- 25: Cubism, Futurism, And Related Twentieth-Century Styles -- Cubism -- Precursors -- History: Gertrude Stein -- Analytic Cubism: Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque -- Collage -- Media and technique: Collage and assemblage -- Synthetic Cubism -- Picasso's surrealism -- Picasso's Guernica -- Other early twentieth-century developments -- Futurism -- Fernand Leger's the City -- Piet Mondrain -- Armory show -- Stuart Davis --Aaron Douglas and the Harlem renaissance -- Kazimier Malevich and suprematism -- Brancusi's Gate of the kiss and Endless column -- Postscript -- Early twenieth-century architecture -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the prairie style -- Architecture: Cantilever -- International style -- 26: Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, And The United States Between The Wars -- Dada -- History: Cabaret voltaire -- Marcel Duchamp -- Jean (Hans) Arp -- Literature: Dada peotry -- Hannah Hoch -- Man Ray -- Surrealism -- Theory: Ande Breton's first surrealist manifesto -- Giorgio de Chirico -- Man Ray -- Paul Klee -- Salvador Dali -- John Miro -- Rene Magritte -- Surrealist sculpture and sculpture derived from surrealism -- Max Ernst -- Window on the world 12: Hopi Kachinas -- Alberto Giacometti -- Henry Moore -- Alexander Calder -- United States: regionalism and social realism -- Painting -- Photography -- American self-taught painters -- Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses -- Horace Pippin -- Mexico --Diego Rivera -- Frida Kahlo -- Toward American abstraction -- Alfred Stieglitz -- Edward Weston -- Arthur Dove -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Transcendental painting -- 27: Mid-Century Abstraction -- Teachers: Hans Hofmann and Josef Albers -- History: Hitler on "Degenerate art" -- Abstract expressionism: the New York school -- Archile Gorky -- Theory: Critics and the Avant-Garde -- Action painting -- Media and technique: Navajo sand painting -- Color field painting -- Media and technique: Acrylic -- West coast abstraction: Richard Diebenkorn -- Figurative abstraction in Europe -- Jean Dubuffet -- Francis Bacon -- Sculpture -- Isamu Noguchi -- Louise Nevelson -- David Smith -- 28: Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, And Conceptualism -- Pop art in England: Richard Hamilton -- Pop art in the United States -- Jasper Johns -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Andy Warhol -- Roy Lichtenstein -- Richard Lindner -- R B Kitaj -- Tom Wesselmann -- Wayne Thiebaud -- Sculpture -- Op art -- Minimalism -- Donald Judd --Dan Flavin -- Agnes Martin -- Eva Hesse -- Conceptualism -- Joseph Kosuth -- Sol LeWitt -- Action sculpture: Joseph Beuys -- 29: Innovation, Continuity, And Globalization -- Continuing controversy: government funding of the arts -- Andres Serrano -- Robert Mapplethorpe -- Performance -- Gilbert & George -- Laurie Anderson -- Return to realism -- Chuck Close -- Richard Estes -- Duane Hanson -- Ron Mueck and Constantin Brancusi -- Developments in architecture -- Guggenheim museum, New York -- Guggenheim museum installations: Jenny Holzer and Matthew Barney -- Whitney museum -- Geodisic dome: R Buckminster Fuller -- Post-modern architecture -- Charles Moore -- Michael Graves -- I M Pei -- Richard Rogers -- Frank Gehry -- Zaha Hadid -- Environmental art -- Robert Smithson -- Nancy Holt -- Andy Goldsworthy -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude -- Urban environment -- Feminist art -- Judy Chicago -- Kiki Smith -- Elizabeth Murray -- Maya Ying Lin: the Women's table -- Race and gender --Bob Thompson -- Romare Bearden -- Kara Walker -- Yasumasa Morimura -- Plus ca change -- Bruce Nauman and Marcel Duchamp -- Memorial art: Anselm Kiefer and Maya Ying Lin -- Jeff Koons: Return to the object -- Nancy Graves -- Mark Tansey -- Cindy Sherman -- Video art: Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, and Shirin Neshat -- Notes -- Glossary -- Suggestions for further reading -- Literary acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Picture credits -- Index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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