Art: A Brief History

by Stokstad, Marilyn; Oppenheimer, Margaret A.; Addiss, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780131827691
• ISBN10: 0131827693
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

"Clear and approachable, the book is intended primarily for one semester art history courses for non-majors. Starting with pre-history and ending with today's divergent trends, Art: A Brief History tells the many sided story of art." "With over 600 carefully chosen illustrations, most in color, all superbly produced to exacting standards of quality of its predecessors, Art: A Brief History presents a compact but thorough introduction to the world of art."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Marilyn Stokstad is Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at the University of Kansas Lawrence, where she has been on the faculty since 1958.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Acknowledgments	vi
Starter Kit	5	(7)
Use Notes	12	(1)
Introduction	13	(17)
Art Before the Written Word	30	(12)
Closer Look	32	(1)
Upper Paleolithic Art	32	(4)
The Power of Naming	34	(1)
Technique: Prehistoric Wall Painting	35	(1)
The Meaning(s) of Prehistoric Painting	36	(1)
Art in the Neolithic Period	36	(2)
Megalithic Architecture	38	(2)
Bronze Age Europe	40	(1)
Early Art Outside Europe	41	(1)
The Art of Mesopotamia and Egypt	42	(24)
Early Neolithic Communities	44	(1)
Mesopotamia	45	(7)
Origins of Writing	45	(3)
Closer Look	48	(4)
Egypt	52	(1)
Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt	52	(6)
The Fiber Arts	53	(2)
Mummies	55	(1)
Elements of Architecture: Mastaba to Pyramid	56	(1)
Egyptian Symbols	57	(1)
The Middle Kingdom	58	(1)
The New Kingdom	59	(6)
The Late Period	65	(1)
Early Asian Art	66	(22)
The Indian Subcontinent	68	(8)
Buddhism	69	(2)
Elements of Architecture: Stupas	71	(2)
Buddhist Symbols	73	(3)
Hinduism	76	(1)
China	76	(6)
Confucianism	78	(2)
The Silk Road and The Making of Silk	80	(1)
Calligraphy	81	(1)
Closer Look	82	(1)
Japan	82	(6)
Essay, Map, Timeline	86	(2)
Art of the Aegean World	88	(30)
The Cycladic Islands	91	(1)
Minoan Crete	91	(4)
Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) Civilization	95	(3)
Mythology	96	(2)
The Emergence of Greek Civilization	98	(1)
The Geometric Style	99	(1)
The Archaic Period	99	(6)
Elements of Architecture: The Greek Architectural Orders	100	(1)
Greek Gods	100	(4)
Closer Look	104	(1)
The Early Classical or Transitional Period	105	(3)
The ``Golden Age'' of Art	108	(6)
Late Classical Art of the Fourth Century BCE	114	(4)
Women Artists in Ancient Greece	116	(2)
The Spread of Greek Art and Culture	118	(18)
The Etruscans	121	(3)
The Scythians	124	(1)
The Neo-Babylonians	125	(1)
The Persians	125	(4)
Closer Look	126	(3)
The Hellenistic Greeks	129	(7)
Elements of Architecture: Theaters	129	(1)
Aphrodite's Arms	130	(6)
Art of the Roman Republic and Empire	136	(28)
Roman Counterparts of Greek Gods	138	(1)
The Republican Period	139	(4)
Elements of Architecture: Arch and Vault	141	(1)
Closer Look	142	(1)
The Early Empire	143	(2)
The Empire	145	(7)
Elements of Architecture: Roman Architectural Orders	147	(5)
The ``Good Emperors''	152	(5)
Lands Outside the Roman Empire	157	(1)
The Late Empire	158	(6)
Looking Back 2 Essay, Map, Timeline	162	(2)
Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art	164	(24)
Judaism	166	(3)
Iconography of the Life of Jesus	168	(1)
Early Christianity	169	(6)
Elements of Architecture: Basilica-Plan and Central-Plan Churches	171	(1)
Saint Peter's, Notre-Dame, and Santa Maria Maggiore	171	(3)
Closer Look	174	(1)
Early Byzantine Art	175	(6)
Elements of Architecture: Pendentives and Squinches	175	(3)
The Depiction of Space	178	(2)
Christian Symbols	180	(1)
Later Byzantine Art	181	(7)
Islamic Art	188	(20)
Art During the Early Caliphates	190	(7)
Islam and the Prophet Muhammad	191	(2)
Elements of Architecture: Mosque Plans	193	(3)
Closer Look	196	(1)
Later Islamic Art	197	(7)
The Mughal Empire	204	(1)
The Ottoman Empire	205	(3)
Later Asian Art	208	(24)
The South Asian Subcontinent	210	(3)
Rajput Painting	213	(2)
Indian Painting on Paper	214	(1)
Closer Look	214	(1)
China	215	(6)
Technique: Formats of Chinese Painting	220	(1)
Japan	221	(11)
Writing, Language, and Culture	222	(8)
Looking Back 3 Essay, Map, Timeline	230	(2)
Early Medieval and Romanesque Art	232	(24)
Early Medieval Art in the British Isles and Scandinavia	234	(2)
Carolingian Art	236	(3)
The Medieval Scriptorium	237	(2)
Painting in Christian Spain	239	(1)
The Ottonian Period	240	(5)
The Romanesque Period	245	(1)
Architecture and Mural Painting	245	(3)
Closer Look	247	(1)
Sculpture	248	(3)
Books and Embroidery	251	(2)
Castles and Churches in England and Normandy	253	(3)
Elements of Architecture: Rib Vaulting	255	(1)
Gothic Art	256	(30)
Gothic Art in France	259	(13)
Elements of Architecture: The Gothic Church	262	(2)
Technique: Stained-Glass Windows	264	(1)
Closer Look	265	(7)
Castles	272	(1)
Gothic Art in England	273	(2)
Gothic Art in the Germanic Lands	275	(1)
Gothic Art in Italy	276	(1)
Sculpture	276	(3)
Technique: Cennini on Panel Painting	279	(1)
Italian Panel and Mural Painting	279	(7)
Looking Back 4 Essay, Map, Timeline	284	(2)
Early Renaissance Art	286	(28)
Renaissance Art in the Low Countries	288	(6)
Technique: Painting on Panel	288	(1)
Technique: Renaissance Perspective Systems	289	(5)
Closer Look	294	(1)
Flemish-Influenced Art Outside the Low Countries	294	(2)
Women Artists in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance	295	(1)
Renaissance Art in Italy	296	(1)
Architecture and Sculpture	297	(6)
Painting	303	(9)
Printmaking in Renaissance Europe	312	(2)
Technique: Woodcuts and Engravings on Metal	312	(2)
Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation	314	(36)
Italian Art	316	(12)
The Vitruvian Man	316	(10)
Elements of Architecture: Saint Peter's Basilica	326	(2)
Venice and the Veneto	328	(6)
Women Patrons of the Arts	329	(3)
Closer Look	332	(2)
Mannerism in Italy and France	334	(7)
Elements of Architecture: Parts of the Church Facade	340	(1)
German and English Art	341	(2)
The Reformation and the Arts	343	(3)
Netherlandish and Spanish Art	346	(4)
Baroque and Rococo Art	350	(34)
Art for the Counter-Reformation Church: Italy	352	(6)
Art for the Secular State: France	358	(4)
Grading the Old Masters	360	(2)
The Habsburg Empire in Spain and Flanders	362	(7)
Elements of Architecture: The Baroque Church Facade	365	(3)
Closer Look	368	(1)
Protestant England	369	(2)
The Protestant Netherlands	371	(7)
Technique: Woodcuts and Engravings on Metal	372	(4)
Science and the Changing Worldview	376	(2)
The Rococo Style	378	(2)
Art and Science	380	(4)
Looking Back 5 Essay, Map, Timeline	382	(2)
Art of the Americas	384	(18)
Mesoamerica	387	(4)
South America: The Central Andes	391	(2)
Elements of Architecture: Inca Masonry	392	(1)
The Aftermath of the Spanish Conquest	393	(1)
North America	394	(1)
The Southeast and the Southwest	394	(3)
The Eastern Woodlands and the Great Plains	397	(1)
Technique: Basketry	397	(1)
The Northwest Coast	398	(4)
Closer Look	399	(3)
African Art	402	(14)
The Myth of ``Primitive'' Art	405	(3)
African Art in the Modern Era: Living Traditions and New Trends	408	(8)
Closer Look	409	(5)
Looking Back 6 Essay, Map, Timeline	414	(2)
Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism	416	(24)
Neoclassicism and Its Heritage	418	(1)
Portrait Painting	419	(3)
Forty Years of Revolution: 1775-1815	419	(3)
Art Academies in the Eighteenth Century	422	(1)
Moralized Genre Painting	422	(2)
Neoclassical Architecture in England and North America	424	(3)
Closer Look	425	(2)
Neoclassical Painting in France	427	(2)
Romanticism	429	(4)
Romantic Landscape Painting	433	(1)
``Am I Not a Man and a Brother?''	433	(1)
Early Photography	434	(2)
Technique: How Photography Works	436	(1)
Naturalism and Realism in Europe	436	(2)
Painting in the United States	438	(2)
Later Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States	440	(26)
Architecture	442	(2)
Academic Art	444	(1)
Reactions Against the Academy	445	(2)
Art Nouveau	447	(2)
Japonisme	448	(1)
Art in the United States	449	(2)
Impressionism	451	(4)
Artistic Allusions in Manet's Art	453	(2)
Later Impressionism	455	(2)
Post-Impressionism	457	(7)
Technique: Lithography	462	(1)
Closer Look	463	(1)
Late-Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture	464	(2)
Modern Art: Europe and North America in the Early Twentieth Century	466	(32)
Early Modern Tendencies in Europe	468	(1)
Expressionism	469	(2)
Modernism	469	(1)
``Primitivism'' and Modernity	470	(1)
Expressionist Movements	471	(4)
Cubism	475	(3)
Responses to Cubism	478	(1)
Modernist Tendencies in the United States	479	(2)
Art After World War I	481	(2)
Architecture Between the Wars	483	(3)
Elements of Architecture: The International Style	485	(1)
Dada and Surrealism	486	(6)
Suppression of the Avant-Garde in Germany	487	(2)
Closer Look	489	(1)
Elements of Architecture: The Skyscraper	490	(2)
Art in North America Between the Wars	492	(1)
The United States	492	(2)
The Harlem Renaissance	494	(1)
Mexico	495	(2)
Canada	497	(1)
Art Since 1945	498	(32)
The ``Mainstream'' Crosses the Atlantic	500	(5)
The Idea of the Mainstream	503	(2)
Assemblage and Pop Art	505	(5)
The High/Low Myth of Modernism	506	(2)
Closer Look	508	(2)
Appropriation	510	(1)
Minimalism/Post-Minimalism and Op Art	510	(1)
Conceptual and Performance Art	511	(1)
The Rise of American Craft Art	512	(1)
Late Modernism/Postmodernism	513	(1)
Architecture	513	(2)
Earthworks and Site-Specific Art	515	(1)
Feminist Art	516	(2)
Pluralism	518	(4)
Deconstruction	522	(1)
Art With Social Impact	522	(1)
Installation and Video Art	523	(2)
Public Memory and Art: The Memorial	525	(5)
Looking Back 7 Essay, Map, Timeline	528	(2)
Glossary	530	(8)
Selected Bibliography	538	(8)
Index	546	(11)
Credits	557