Art Past, Art Present

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

• ISBN13: 9780130889775
• ISBN10: 0130889776
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For one-semester Art History and Art Appreciation courses. Authoritative and substantiveyet accessiblethis text looks at the historical and cultural contexts of art works and architecture around the world from prehistoric times to the 20th centurywith detailed and informative analyses of art, artists, patrons, and techniques. A unique chronological presentation in compact topical units offers an exceptionally easy-to-use formatwith general period/style introductions followed by self-contained sections on a selected number of specific representative pieces. The global focus emphasizes the diversity and commonality of human experience.

Table of Contents

Getting Started	xii
Experiencing Art	1	(22)
Experiencing Art	2	(2)
How To Experience Art	3	(1)
Viewing Art	4	(4)
Understanding Style	4	(1)
Analyzing Two Works	5	(1)
Comparing Works of Art	6	(1)
Viewing Baroque Sculpture	6	(2)
Analyzing Art	8	(10)
Analyzing Architecture	8	(3)
Analyzing Sculpture	11	(1)
Analyzing Ritual Art	12	(2)
Analyzing Installation Art	14	(1)
Analyzing Painting	14	(4)
Art and Artists in History	18	(5)
Artists in Ancient Greece and Rome	19	(1)
Artists in the Middle Ages	19	(1)
Artists in the Renaissance and Beyond	19	(1)
Artists in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	20	(1)
Artists in China	20	(1)
Artists in Africa	21	(1)
Artists in India	21	(2)
Prehistoric Art	23	(12)
Prehistoric Art	24	(11)
The Paleolithic Period	24	(1)
The Discovery of Paleolithic Painting	25	(1)
Paleolithic Art	25	(1)
The Neolithic Period	26	(1)
Neolithic Art and Architecture	27	(4)
Prehistoric Art and the Prehistoric Artist	31	(1)
Theme: Ritual and Art	32	(3)
Ancient Art	35	(96)
Ancient Art	36	(6)
History	37	(1)
Art of Ancient Societies	38	(1)
The Ancient Artist	38	(1)
Art Past/Art Present: The Concept of the Classical	39	(1)
Theme: The Presence of the Artist	40	(2)
Sumerian Art	42	(2)
Ancient Egyptian Art	44	(4)
History	45	(1)
Religion	46	(1)
Art of Ancient Egypt	46	(1)
The Egyptian Artist	47	(1)
Ancient Egyptian Art: The Palette of Narmer	48	(2)
Technique: Relief Sculpture	49	(1)
The Egyptian Pyramids	50	(2)
The Egyptian Temple	52	(4)
Technique: Post-and-Lintel Construction	54	(1)
Technique: How to Read Architectural Diagrams	55	(1)
Egyptian Tomb Paintings and Painted Reliefs	56	(2)
Technique: Figure-Ground Relationships	57	(1)
The Indus Valley Civilization	58	(2)
Aegean Art: Minoan and Mycenaean	60	(4)
Ancient China: The Shang Dynasty	64	(2)
Technique: Chinese Piece-Mold Bronze Casting	65	(1)
Assyrian and Early Persian Art	66	(2)
Etruscan Art	68	(2)
Ancient Greek Art	70	(4)
History	70	(2)
Intellectual and Scientific Activities	72	(1)
Religion	73	(1)
Greek Art	73	(1)
The Greek Artist	73	(1)
Greek Vase Painting	74	(2)
Greek Sculpture: Archaic Style and Severe Style	76	(4)
Art Past/Art Present: The Impact of the Ancient Greek Orders	77	(1)
Technique: The Classical Orders	78	(2)
Greek Doric Architecture	80	(2)
Technique: Greek Temple Construction	81	(1)
Greek Sculpture: Severe Style	82	(2)
Technique: Greek Lost-Wax Bronze Casting	83	(1)
Greek Classical-Style Sculpture	84	(2)
Technique: Contrapposto in Sculpture	85	(1)
Greek Architecture: The Parthenon, Athens	86	(2)
Greek Sculpture: The Parthenon	88	(2)
Greek Sculpture and Painting: Fourth Century BCE	90	(2)
Hellenistic Art	92	(4)
History	92	(1)
Art of the Hellenistic Period	93	(1)
Hellenistic Painting	93	(1)
Hellenistic Sculpture in Pergamon	93	(3)
Early Buddhist Art	96	(4)
The Art of the Roman Republic	100	(4)
History	101	(1)
Republican Architectural Developments	102	(1)
The Roman House and Villa	103	(1)
The Art of the Roman Empire	104	(8)
History	104	(1)
The City of Rome	105	(1)
Roman Imperial Art	106	(2)
Technology, Organization, and Engineering	108	(1)
Roman Religion and the Mystery Religions	109	(1)
The End of Rome's Empire	109	(1)
Late Roman Sculpture	109	(1)
The Roman Artist	110	(2)
Roman Frescoes and Illusionism	112	(4)
Technique: Roman Fresco	114	(1)
Technique: Illusionism	115	(1)
Roman Architecture: The Flavian Amphitheater	116	(6)
Technique: Roman Engineering: The Arch, The Vault, and Concrete	118	(4)
Roman Architecture: The Pantheon, Rome	122	(2)
Roman Public Architecture	124	(2)
Mesoamerican Art: Teotihuacan	126	(5)
Art From 200 to 1400	131	(96)
Art from 200 to 1400	132	(8)
Art Past/art Present: Naming the Middle Ages	132	(2)
History	134	(1)
Art and the Christian Church	135	(1)
The Scroll and Book	136	(1)
The Artist	137	(1)
Theme: Religious Architecture	138	(2)
Jewish Art: The Synagogue at Dura Europos	140	(2)
Early Christian Art	142	(4)
History	142	(1)
Art	143	(1)
Technique: Christianity and Symbolism	144	(2)
Early Christian Architecture	146	(2)
The Shinto Shrine at Ise, Japan	148	(2)
Byzantine Art	150	(4)
History	150	(1)
Art	151	(1)
The Icon and Iconoclasm	151	(2)
The Byzantine Artist	153	(1)
Byzantine Architecture: Hagia Sophia	154	(2)
Byzantine Art: San Vitale, Ravenna	156	(4)
Technique: Mosaic	159	(1)
Anglo-Saxon Metalwork	160	(2)
Hiberno-Saxon Manuscript Illumination	162	(2)
The Chinese Imperial City of Chang'An	164	(4)
Buddhist Art at Horyuji	168	(1)
The Spread of Buddhism to Japan	169	(3)
Technique: Tou-Kung Bracketing	169	(3)
Hindu Art at Ellora	172	(2)
Islamic Art at Cordoba	174	(4)
Carolingian Art	178	(2)
The Monastery in the West	180	(2)
Buddhist Art in Indonesia	182	(2)
Chinese Art: Landscape Painting	184	(4)
Art Past/Art Present: Chinese Aesthetic Theory	187	(1)
Ottonian Art	188	(2)
Romanesque Art	190	(4)
History	191	(1)
Art and the Pilgrim	191	(1)
Manuscript Illumination	191	(1)
The Bayeux Tapestry	191	(2)
The Romanesque Artist	193	(1)
Romanesque Architecture at Conques	194	(2)
Romanesque Sculpture	196	(2)
Later Byzantine Art	198	(2)
Angkor Wat: Cult of the God-King	200	(2)
The Japanese Narrative Scroll	202	(2)
Gothic Art	204	(4)
Abbot Suger	205	(1)
History	205	(1)
Art	205	(2)
The Franciscans	207	(1)
The Gothic Artist	207	(1)
The Gothic Cathedral: Chartres	208	(6)
Technique: Proportions of Gothic Cathedrals, 1160--1230	210	(2)
Technique: Gothic Engineering	212	(1)
Technique: Regional Styles of Gothic Architecture	213	(1)
Gothic Sculpture	214	(4)
Technique: Gothic Stained Glass	216	(2)
Early Italian Painting	218	(2)
Giotto, The Arena Chapel Frescoes	220	(4)
Technique: Tempera and Fresco	222	(2)
The Royal Art of African Kingdoms	224	(3)
Fifteen-Century Art	227	(52)
Fifteenth-Century Art	228	(10)
Fifteenth-Century Developments	229	(2)
The Idea of a Renaissance	231	(1)
Naming the Styles	231	(1)
History	231	(1)
Italian Renaissance Humanism	232	(1)
Italian Renaissance Art Theory	233	(1)
The Union of the Classical and the Natural	233	(1)
European Intellectual Activity	234	(1)
Changing Patterns of Patronage in Europe	234	(1)
The Fifteenth-Century Artist in Europe	235	(1)
Theme: Portraiture Exalting the Individual	236	(2)
Early Renaissance Sculpture in Florence	238	(2)
Flemish Painting: The Limbourg Brothers	240	(2)
Flemish Painting: Robert Campin	242	(2)
Italian Renaissance Painting: Masaccio	244	(6)
Technique: Fresco, Oil, and Tempera	247	(1)
Technique: Scientific Perspective	248	(2)
Flemish Painting: Hubert and Jan Van Eyck	250	(2)
Italian Renaissance Sculpture: Lorenzo Ghiberti	252	(4)
Technique: Wood Carving	254	(2)
Flemish Painting: Jan Van Eyck	256	(4)
Technique: The Development of Oil Painting in Flanders	258	(2)
Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi	260	(2)
The Italian Renaissance Palace	262	(2)
The Beginnings of Portraiture in Europe	264	(2)
Italian Renaissance Painting: Andrea Mantegna	266	(4)
Technique: Foreshortening	267	(1)
Technique: Italian Renaissance Drawing	268	(2)
Italian Renaissance Painting: Sandro Botticelli	270	(2)
Italian Renaissance Painting: Leonardo Da Vinci	272	(2)
Italian Renaissance Painting: Leonardo's The Last Supper	274	(2)
Art Past/Art Present: Leonardo's Last Supper Restored	275	(1)
Italian Renaissance Sculpture: Michelangelo's St. Peter's Pieta	276	(3)
Sixteenth-Century Art	279	(54)
Sixteenth-Century Art	280	(10)
History	281	(2)
Intellectual and Scientific Developments in Europe	283	(1)
The Protestant Reformation	283	(1)
The Counter-Reformation	284	(1)
European Sixteenth-Century Art	285	(1)
The Sixteenth-Century Artist in Europe	286	(2)
Theme: The Nude/The Body	288	(2)
Italian Renaissance Sculpture: Michelangelo	290	(2)
Technique: Stone Sculpture	291	(1)
Italian High Renaissance Portraiture	292	(2)
Art Past/Art Present: Fame, Time, and the Mona Lisa	293	(1)
German Printmaking: Albrecht Durer	294	(4)
Technique: Printmaking: Engraving and Woodcut	296	(2)
New St. Peter's, Rome	298	(2)
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling	300	(4)
Art Past/Art Present: Vasari and Modern Scholarship	303	(1)
Raphael, Stanza Della Segnatura	304	(2)
High Renaissance Painting in Venice	306	(2)
Hieronymus Bosch, ``Garden of Earthly Delights'' Triptych	308	(2)
German Painting: Matthias Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece	310	(2)
Titian's Altarpieces	312	(4)
Technique: Venetian Painting	314	(2)
Later Michelangelo and the Development of Mannerism	316	(2)
Mannerism	318	(2)
Early Landscape Painting	320	(2)
Sixteenth-Century Painting	322	(2)
Islamic Art of the Ottomans	324	(2)
Late-Sixteenth-Century Architecture	326	(2)
Veronese and the Impact of the Counter-Reformation	328	(2)
The Art of Zen Buddhism in Japan	330	(3)
Seventeenth-Century Art	333	(46)
Seventeenth-Century Art	334	(10)
History	335	(2)
Intellectual and Scientific Activity in Europe	337	(1)
The Styles of Seventeenth-Century European Art	337	(2)
Seventeenth-Century European Art	339	(1)
The Seventeenth-Century Artist	340	(2)
Theme: Relating to Nature	342	(2)
Caravaggio and His Influence	344	(4)
Barogue Genre Painting	348	(2)
Peter Paul Rubens	350	(2)
Bernini's Works for St. Peter's	352	(2)
The Dutch Baroque Group Portrait	354	(2)
Baroque Architecture: Francesco Borromini	356	(2)
Bernini Ecstasy of Saint Teresa	358	(4)
Technique: The Art of Drawing: Rembrandt	360	(2)
Rembrandt: Late Paintings	362	(4)
Technique: Printmaking Etching and Drypoint	364	(2)
Spanish Painting: Diego Velazquez	366	(2)
Baroque Classicism: Nicolas Poussin	368	(2)
Dutch Still-Life Painting	370	(2)
The Palace at Versailles	372	(2)
Japanese Art	374	(2)
Landscape Painting	376	(3)
Eighteenth-Century Art	379	(20)
Eighteenth-Century Art	380	(8)
History	381	(1)
Intellectual and Scientific Activity in Europe	382	(1)
Eighteenth-Century Art in Europe	383	(1)
The Eighteenth-Century Artist in Europe	384	(2)
Theme: Representing Women	386	(2)
Eighteenth-Century Painting in Europe	388	(2)
Rococo Architecture and Sculpture	390	(2)
Eighteenth-Century Portraiture	392	(2)
Thomas Jefferson and Neoclassical Architecture in the United States	394	(2)
Neoclassical Painting	396	(3)
Nineteenth-Century Art	399	(72)
Nineteenth-Century Art	400	(14)
History	401	(2)
The Industrial Revolution	403	(1)
European Intellectual and Scientific Activities	404	(1)
Art	405	(2)
The Primacy of France in World Art	407	(1)
The Styles of Nineteenth-Century Art in the West	408	(1)
The Nineteenth-Century Artist	409	(2)
Art Past/Art Present: Looking Beyond the Art: Romanticism	411	(1)
Theme: The Artist as a Revolutionary	412	(2)
The Continuation of Neoclassicism	414	(2)
Francisco Goya	416	(2)
Romanticism	418	(2)
Romantic Landscape Painting	420	(2)
Japanese Woodblock Prints	422	(2)
Honore Daumier and the Political Print	424	(2)
Technique: Lithography	425	(1)
Romantic Revival Architecture	426	(2)
American Romantic Painting	428	(2)
French Realism: Gustave Courbet	430	(2)
Academic Art	432	(2)
New Materials and Engineering in Architecture	434	(4)
Technique: New Materials in Architecture	437	(1)
Late-Nineteenth-Century Revival Architecture	438	(2)
Edouard Manet	440	(2)
Early Photography and Photographic Technique	442	(2)
Late-Nineteenth-Century Sculpture	444	(2)
Impressionism	446	(4)
Technique: Impressionism	449	(1)
Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt	450	(2)
American Realism: Thomas Eakins and Henry Tanner	452	(2)
Auguste Rodin	454	(2)
Winslow Homer	456	(2)
Technique: Watercolor and Gouache	457	(1)
Post-Impressionism: Gauguin and Seurat	458	(2)
Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh	460	(4)
Art Past/Art Present: The Value of Art: Van Gogh	463	(1)
Post-Impressionism: Cezanne	464	(2)
The Beginnings of the Skyscraper	466	(2)
Edvard Munch	468	(3)
Twentieth-Century Art	471	(127)
Twentieth-Century Art	472	(18)
History	473	(3)
Intellectual and Scientific Activity	476	(1)
Art of the Twentieth Century	477	(8)
The Twentieth-Century Artist	485	(3)
Theme: The Home and the Palace	488	(2)
Fauvism	490	(2)
African Art and Ritual	492	(2)
Native American Art	494	(4)
Art Past/Art Present: Women in Pueblo Society	497	(1)
Photography	498	(2)
The Origins of Cubism	500	(2)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House	502	(2)
Technique: The Cantilever	503	(1)
Analytical Cubism	504	(2)
Synthetic Cubism	506	(2)
Technique: Collage and Assemblage	507	(1)
The Influence of Cubism	508	(2)
Abstraction in Sculpture	510	(2)
Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde	512	(2)
German Expressionism: Die Brucke	514	(2)
German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter	516	(2)
Fantasy	518	(2)
Dada	520	(4)
De Stijl and the Bauhaus	524	(4)
Diego Rivera and Mexican Mural Painting	528	(2)
Surrealism	530	(4)
Modernism in American Painting	534	(4)
Pablo Picasso, Guernica	538	(2)
Sculpture of the 1930s and 1940s	540	(4)
International Style Architecture	544	(2)
Abstract Expressionism and Post-Painterly Abstraction	546	(4)
Le Corbusier	550	(2)
Film in Japan	552	(2)
The Return to the Object: Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg	554	(2)
Hard-Edge and Op Art	556	(2)
Pop Art	558	(2)
Photography Since 1945	560	(2)
Conceptual, Performance, Installation, and Video Art	562	(2)
The Development of Minimal Art	564	(2)
Earth and Land Art	566	(2)
The New Realism	568	(2)
Postmodernism	570	(2)
Architecture Since 1970	572	(4)
Pattern and Decoration	576	(2)
Neo-Expressionism	578	(2)
Japanese Architecture	580	(2)
Appropriation	582	(2)
Avant-Garde Chinese Art	584	(2)
Recent Developments	586	(12)
Glossary	598	(8)
Bibliography	606	(3)
Index	609	(12)
List of Credits	621