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1  Cover

2  Title Page

3  Copyright

4  Introduction About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here

5  Part 1: Getting Started with Art History Chapter 1: Art Tour through the Ages Connecting Art Divisions and Culture It’s Ancient History, So Why Dig It Up? Did the Art World Crash When Rome Fell, or Did It Just Switch Directions? In the Machine Age, Where Did Art Get Its Power? The Modern World and the Shattered Mirror Chapter 2: Why People Make Art and What It All Means Focusing on the Artist’s Purpose Detecting Design Decoding Meaning Chapter 3: The Major Artistic Movements Distinguishing an Art Period from a Movement Tracking Major 19th-Century Art Movements Moving Off the Rails in the 20th Century

6  Part 2: From Caves to Colosseum: Ancient Art Chapter 4: Magical Hunters and Psychedelic Cave Artists Cool Cave Art or Paleolithic Painting: Why Keep It a Secret? Flirting with Fertility Goddesses Dominoes for Druids: Stonehenge, Menhirs, and Neolithic Architecture Chapter 5: Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art Climbing toward the Clouds: Sumerian Architecture The Eyes Have It: Scoping Out Sumerian Sculpture Playing Puabi’s Lyre Unraveling the Standard of Ur Stalking Stone Warriors: Akkadian Art Stamped in Stone: Hammurabi’s Code Unlocking Assyrian Art Babylon Has a Baby: New Babylon Chapter 6: One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art Ancient Egypt 101 The Art of a Unified Egypt The Egyptian Style: Proportion and Orientation Excavating Old Kingdom Architecture The In-Between Period and Middle Kingdom Realism New Kingdom Art Chapter 7: Greek Art, the Olympian Ego, and the Inventors of the Modern World Mingling with the Minoans: Snake Goddesses, Minotaurs, and Bull Jumpers Greek Sculpture: Stark Symmetry to a Delicate Balance Figuring Out Greek Vase Painting Rummaging through Ruins: Greek Architecture Greece without Borders: Hellenism Chapter 8: Etruscan and Roman Art: It’s All Greek to Me! The Mysterious Etruscans Infusing Art with Roman Influence Revealing Roman Architecture: A Marriage of Style and Engineering

7  Part 3: Art after the Fall of Rome: AD 500–AD 1760 Chapter 9: The Graven Image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art The Rise and Fall of Constantinople Early Christian Art in the West Byzantine Art Meets Imperial Splendor Islamic Art: Architectural Pathways to God Chapter 10: Mystics, Marauders, and Manuscripts: Medieval Art Irish Light: Illuminated Manuscripts Charlemagne: King of His Own Renaissance Weaving and Unweaving the Battle of Hastings: The Bayeux Tapestry Romanesque Architecture: Churches That Squat Romanesque Sculpture Relics and Reliquaries: Miraculous Leftovers Gothic Grandeur: Churches That Soar Stained-Glass Storytelling Gothic Sculpture Italian Gothic Gothic Painting: Cimabue, Duccio, and Giotto Tracking the Lady and the Unicorn: The Mystical Tapestries of Cluny Chapter 11: Born-Again Culture: The Early and High Renaissance The Early Renaissance in Central Italy The High Renaissance Chapter 12: Venetian Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North A Gondola Ride through the Venetian Renaissance Late Gothic: Northern Naturalism Northern Exposure: The Renaissance in the Netherlands and Germany Chapter 13: Art That’ll Stretch Your Neck: Mannerism Detecting the Non-Rules of Mannerism Pontormo: Front and Center Bronzino’s Background Symbols and Scene Layering Parmigianino: He’s Not a Cheese! Arcimboldo: À la Carte Art Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625): Invading Art History’s Guys’ Club El Greco: Stretched to the Limit Lavinia Fontana: The First Professional Female Painter Finding Your Footing in Giulio Romano’s Palazzo Te Chapter 14: When the Renaissance Went Baroque Baroque Origin, Purpose, and Style Annibale Carracci: Heavenly Ceilings Shedding Light on the Subject: Caravaggio and His Followers Elisabetta Sirani and an Art School for Women The Ecstasy and the Ecstasy: Bernini Sculpture Embracing Baroque Architecture Dutch and Flemish Realism French Flourish and Baroque Light Shows In the Limelight with Caravaggio: The Spanish Golden Age Chapter 15: Going Loco with Rococo What You Get in Rococo Art Breaking with Baroque: Antoine Watteau Fragonard and Boucher: Lush, Lusty, and Lavish Flying High: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rococo Lite: The Movement in England

8  Part 4: The Industrial Revolution Revs Up Art’s Evolution: 1760–1900 Chapter 16: All Roads Lead Back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical Art When Philosophers and Artists Join Forces Angelica Kauffman: The Queen of Neoclassicism Jacques-Louis David: The King of Neoclassicism Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: The Prince of Neoclassical Portraiture Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun: Portraitist of the Queen and Fashion Setter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: From Ideal to Real and Royals to Revolutionaries Canova and Houdon: Greek Grace and Neoclassical Sculpture Chapter 17: Romanticism: Reaching Within and Acting Out Kissing Isn’t Romantic, but Having a Heart Is Far Out with William Blake and Henry Fuseli: Personal Mythologies Inside Out: Caspar David Friedrich The Revolutionary French Romantics: Gericault and Delacroix Francisco Goya and the Grotesque J. M. W. Turner Sets the Skies on Fire Chapter 18: What You See Is What You Get: Realism Rebels with a Cause Courbet and Daumier: Painting Peasants and Urban Blight The Barbizon School and the Great Outdoors Rosa Bonheur: From a Horse Fair to Buffalo Bill Keeping It Real in America The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Medieval Visions and Painting Literature The Ten: America’s First Art Movement Ashcan Artists: Capturing the Grit of Urban Life Chapter 19: First Impressions: Impressionism M & M: Manet and Monet Pretty Women and Painted Ladies: Renoir and Degas Cassatt, Morisot, and Other Female Impressionists American Impressionism Chapter 20: Making Their Own Impression: The Post-Impressionists You’ve Got a Point: Pointillism, Georges-Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac Red-Light Art: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Tracking the “Noble Savage”: Paul Gauguin Painting Energy: Vincent van Gogh Love Cast in Stone: Rodin and Claudel The Mask behind the Face: James Ensor The Hills Are Alive with Geometry: Paul Cézanne Art Nouveau: Curves, Swirls, and Asymmetry Fairy-Tale Fancies and the Sandcastle Cathedral of Barcelona: Antoni Gaudí

9  Part 5: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art Chapter 21: From Fauvism to Expressionism Fauvism: Colors Fighting like Animals German Expressionism: Form Based on Feeling Austrian Expressionism: From Dream to Nightmare Chapter 22: Cubist Puzzles and Finding the Fast Lane with the Futurists Cubism: All Views At Once Futurism: Art That Broke the Speed Limit Precisionism: Geometry as Art The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age Chapter 23: Nonobjective Art: Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism Suprematism: Kazimir Malevich’s Reinvention of Space Constructivism: Showing Off Your Skeleton Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl Movement Dada Turns the World on Its Head Surrealism and Disjointed Dreams My House Is a Machine: Modernist Architecture Abstract Expressionism: Fireworks on Canvas Chapter 24: Anything-Goes Art: Fab Fifties and Psychedelic Sixties Artsy Cartoons: Pop Art Fantastic Realism Louise Nevelson: Picking up the Trash and Assemblage Louise Bourgeois: Sexualized sculpture Less-Is-More Art: Rothko, Newman, Stella, Frankenthaler, and Others Photorealism Performance Art and Installations Chapter 25: Photography: From Science to Art The Birth of Photography Transitioning from Science to Art Alfred Stieglitz: Reliving the Moment Henri Cartier-Bresson’s uncanny eye Group f/64: Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Ansel Adams Dorothea Lange: Depression to Dust Bowl Margaret Bourke-White: From Industrial Beauty to Political Statements Fast-Forward: The Next Generation Chapter 26: The New World: Postmodern Art From Modern Pyramids to Titanium Twists: Postmodern Architecture Making It or Faking It? Postmodern Photography and Painting Installation Art and Earth Art Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies and Living, Genetic Art

10  Part 6: The Part of Tens Chapter 27: Ten Must-See Art Museums Chapter 28: Ten Great Books by Ten Great Artists

11  Index

12  About the Author

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14  End User License Agreement