Art Past, Art Present

by Wilkins, David G.; Schultz, Bernard; Linduff, Katheryn M.

• ISBN13: 9780810919815
• ISBN10: 0810919818
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc

Author Biography

David G. Wilkins is Professor, Henry Clay Frick Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Bernard Schultz is Professor of Art History and in the College of Creative Arts at West Virginia University in Morgantown. Katheryn M. Linduff is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

Experiencing Art	14	(36)
Introduction
Viewing Art	18	(4)
Analyzing Art	22	(10)
Art and Artists in History	32	(4)
Prehistoric Art	36	(12)
Introduction	38	(8)
Prehistoric Art	46	(2)
Ancient Art	48	(96)
Introduction	50	(4)
The Concept of the Classical	52	(2)
Ancient Art	54	(2)
Sumerian Art	56	(2)
Ancient Egyptian Art	58	(4)
Ancient Egyptian Art: The Palette of Narmer	62	(2)
Relief Sculpture	63	(1)
The Egyptian Pyramids	64	(2)
The Egyptian Temple	66	(4)
Post-and-Lintel Construction	68	(1)
How to Read Architectural Diagrams	69	(1)
Egyptian Tomb Paintings and Painted Reliefs	70	(2)
Figure-Ground Relationships	71	(1)
The Indus Valley Civilization	72	(2)
Aegean Art: Minoan and Mycenaean	74	(4)
Ancient China: The Shang Dynasty	78	(2)
Chinese Piece-Mold Bronze Casting	79	(1)
Assyrian and Early Persian Art	80	(2)
Etruscan Art	82	(2)
Ancient Greek Art	84	(4)
Greek Vase Painting	88	(2)
Greek Sculpture: Archaic Style and Severe Style	90	(4)
The Classical Orders	92	(1)
The Impact of the Ancient Greek Orders	93	(1)
Greek Doric Architecture	94	(2)
Greek Sculpture: Severe Style	96	(2)
Greek Lost-Wax Bronze Casting	97	(1)
Greek Classical-Style Sculpture	98	(2)
Contrapposto in Sculpture	99	(1)
Greek Architecture: The Parthenon, Athens	100	(2)
Greek Sculpture: The Parthenon	102	(2)
Greek Sculpture and Painting: Fourth Century BCE	104	(2)
Hellenistic Art	106	(4)
Early Buddhist Art	110	(4)
The Art of the Roman Republic	114	(4)
The Art of the Roman Empire	118	(8)
Roman Frescoes and Illusionism	126	(4)
Roman Fresco	128	(1)
Illusionism	129	(1)
Roman Architecture: The Flavian Amphitheater	130	(6)
Roman Engineering: The Arch, the Vault, and Concrete	132	(4)
Roman Architecture: The Pantheon, Rome	136	(2)
Roman Public Architecture	138	(2)
Mesoamerican Art: Teotihuacan	140	(4)
Art From 200 to 1400	144	(96)
Introduction	146	(6)
Naming the Middle Ages	146	(6)
The Middle Ages	152	(2)
Jewish Art: The Synagogue at Dura Europos	154	(2)
Early Christian Art	156	(4)
Christianity and Symbolism	158	(2)
Early Christian Architecture	160	(2)
The Shinto Shrine at ISE, Japan	162	(2)
Byzantine Art	164	(4)
Hagia Sophia	168	(2)
San Vitale, Ravenna	170	(4)
Mosaic	173	(1)
Anglo-Saxon Metalwork	174	(2)
Hiberno-Saxon Manuscript Illumination	176	(2)
The Chinese Imperial City of Changan	178	(4)
Buddhist Art at Horyuji	182	(4)
Tou-Kung Bracketing	183	(3)
Hindu Art at Ellora	186	(2)
Islamic Art at Cordoba	188	(4)
Carolingian Art	192	(2)
The Monastery in the West	194	(2)
Buddhist Art in Indonesia	196	(2)
Chinese Art: Landscape Painting	198	(4)
Chinese Aesthetic Theory	201	(1)
Ottonian Art	202	(2)
Romanesque Art	204	(4)
Romanesque Architecture at Conques	208	(2)
Romanesque Sculpture	210	(2)
Later Byzantine Art	212	(2)
Angkor Wat: Cult of the God-King	214	(2)
The Japanese Narrative Scroll	216	(2)
Gothic Art	218	(4)
The Gothic Cathedral: Chartres	222	(6)
Proportions of Gothic Cathedrals, 1160--1230	224	(2)
Gothic Engineering	226	(1)
Regional Styles of Gothic Architecture	227	(1)
Gothic Sculpture	228	(4)
Gothic Stained Glass	230	(2)
Early Italian Painting	232	(2)
Giotto, the Arena Chapel Frescoes	234	(4)
Tempera and Fresco	236	(2)
The Royal Art of African Kingdoms	238	(2)
Fifteenth-Century Art	240	(52)
Introduction	242	(8)
Renaissance	250	(2)
Early Renaissance Sculpture in Florence	252	(2)
Flemish Painting: The Limbourg Brothers	254	(2)
Flemish Painting: Robert Campin	256	(2)
Italian Renaissance Painting: Masaccio	258	(6)
Fresco, Oil, and Tempera	261	(1)
Scientific Perspective	262	(2)
Flemish Painting: Hubert and Jan Van Eyck	264	(2)
Italian Renaissance Sculpture: Lorenzo Ghiberti	266	(4)
Wood Carving	268	(2)
Flemish Painting: Jan Van Eyck	270	(4)
The Development of Oil Painting in Flanders	272	(2)
Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi	274	(2)
The Italian Renaissance Palace	276	(2)
The Beginning of Portraiture in Europe	278	(2)
Italian Renaissance Painting: Andrea Mantegna	280	(4)
Foresehortening	281	(1)
Italian Renaissance Drawing	282	(2)
Italian Renaissance Painting: Sandro Botticelli	284	(2)
Italian Renaissance Painting: Leonardo Da Vinci	286	(2)
Italian Renaissance Painting: Leonardo's the Last Supper	288	(2)
Italian Renaissance Sculpture: Michelangelo's St. Peter's Pieta	290	(2)
Sixteenth-Century Art	292	(54)
Introduction	294	(8)
Sixteenth Century	302	(2)
Italian Renaissance Sculpture: Michelangelo	304	(2)
Stone Sculpture	305	(1)
Italian High Renaissance Portraiture	306	(2)
German Printmaking: Albrecht Durer	308	(4)
Printmaking: Engraving and Woodcut	310	(2)
New St. Peter's Basilica, Rome	312	(2)
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling	314	(4)
Raphael, Stanza Della Segnatura	318	(2)
High Renaissance Painting in Venice	320	(2)
Hieronymus Boch, ``Garden of Earthly Delights'' Triptych	322	(2)
German Painting: Matthias Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece	324	(2)
Titian's Altarpieces	326	(4)
Venetian Painting	328	(2)
Later Michelangelo and the Development of Mannerism	330	(2)
Mannerism	332	(2)
Early Landscape Painting	334	(2)
Pieter Brueghel the Elder	336	(2)
Islamic Art of the Ottomans	338	(2)
Late-Sixteenth-Century Architecture	340	(2)
Veronese and the Impact of the Counter-Reformation	342	(2)
The Art of Zen Buddhism in Japan	344	(2)
Seventeenth-Century Art	346	(46)
Introduction	348	(8)
Seventeenth Century	356	(2)
Caravaggio and His Influence	358	(4)
Baroque Genre Painting	362	(2)
Peter Paul Rubens	364	(2)
Bernini's Works for St. Peter's	366	(2)
The Dutch Baroque Group Portrait	368	(2)
Baroque Architecture: Francesco Borromini	370	(2)
Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa	372	(4)
The Art of Drawing: Rembrandt	374	(2)
Rembrandt: Late Paintings	376	(4)
Printmaking: Etching and Drypoint	378	(2)
Diego Velazquez	380	(2)
Baroque Classicism: Nicolas Poussin	382	(2)
Dutch Still-Life Painting	384	(2)
The Palace at Versailles	386	(2)
Japanese Art	388	(2)
Landscape Painting	390	(2)
Eighteenth-Century Art	392	(20)
Introduction	394	(6)
Eighteenth Century	400	(2)
Eighteenth-Century Painting in Europe	402	(2)
Rococo Architecture and Sculpture	404	(2)
Eighteenth-Century Portraiture	406	(2)
Thomas Jefferson and Neoclassical Architecture in the United States	408	(2)
Neoclassical Painting	410	(2)
Nineteenth-Century Art	412	(72)
Introduction	414	(12)
Nineteenth Century	426	(2)
The Continuation of Neoclassicism	428	(2)
Francisco Goya	430	(2)
Romanticism	432	(2)
Romantic Landscape Painting	434	(2)
Japanese Prints	436	(2)
Honore Daumier and the Political Print	438	(2)
Lithography	439	(1)
Romantic Revival Architecture	440	(2)
American Romantic Painting	442	(2)
French Realism: Gustave Courbet	444	(2)
Academic Art	446	(2)
New Materials and Engineering in Architecture	448	(4)
New Materials in Architecture	451	(1)
Late-Nineteenth-Century Revival Architecture	452	(2)
Edouard Manet	454	(2)
Early Photography and Photographic Technique	456	(2)
Late-Nineteenth-Century Sculpture	458	(2)
Impressionism	460	(4)
Impressionism	463	(1)
Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt	464	(2)
American Realism: Thomas Eakins and Henry Tanner	466	(2)
Auguste Rodin	468	(2)
Winslow Homer	470	(2)
Watercolor and Gouache	471	(1)
Post-Impressionism: Gauguin and Seurat	472	(2)
Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh	474	(4)
Post-Impressionism: Cezanne	478	(2)
The Beginnings of the Skyscraper	480	(2)
Edvard Munch	482	(2)
Twentieth-Century Art	484	(120)
Introduction	486	(14)
Twentieth Century	500	(2)
Fauvism	502	(2)
African Art and Ritual	504	(2)
Native American Art	506	(4)
The Origins of Cubism	510	(2)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House	512	(2)
The Cantilever	513	(1)
Analytical Cubism	514	(2)
Synthetic Cubism	516	(2)
Collage and Assemblage	517	(1)
The Influence of Cubism	518	(2)
Abstraction in Sculpture	520	(2)
Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde	522	(2)
German Expressionism: Die Brucke	524	(2)
German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter	526	(2)
Fantasy	528	(2)
Dada	530	(2)
De Stijl and the Bauhaus	532	(4)
Diego Rivera and Mexican Mural Painting	536	(2)
Modernism in American Painting	538	(4)
Photography	542	(2)
Surrealism	544	(2)
Pablo Picasso, Guernica	546	(2)
Sculpture in the 1930s and 1940s	548	(4)
International Style Architecture	552	(2)
Abstract Expressionism and Post-Painterly Abstraction	554	(4)
Le Corbusier	558	(2)
Film in Japan	560	(2)
The Return to the Object: Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg	562	(2)
Hard-Edge and OP Art	564	(2)
Pop Art	566	(2)
Photography Since 1945	568	(2)
Conceptual, Performance, Installation, and Video Art	570	(2)
The Development of Minimal Art	572	(2)
Earth and Land Art	574	(2)
The New Realism	576	(2)
Postmodernism	578	(2)
Architecture Since 1970	580	(4)
Pattern and Decoration	584	(2)
Neo-Expressionism	586	(2)
Japanese Architecture	588	(2)
Appropriation	590	(2)
Avant-Garde Chinese Art	592	(2)
Recent Developments	594	(10)
Glossary	604	(9)
Bibliography	613	(3)
Index	616	(11)
List of Credits	627