Barron's Ap Art History 2008

by Nici, John B.

• ISBN13: 9780764137372
• ISBN10: 0764137379
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Barrons Test Prep

Summary

Barron’s brand-newAP Art Historytest prep manual offers test takers a brush-up review of art history, starting with the earliest civilizations and extending to art of the present day. In addition to a thorough review of Western civilization art, separate chapters focus on non-European art traditions in India, China, Japan, Pre-Columbian Americas, Africa, and the Pacific. Each chapter discusses the historical background, artistic innovations, and characteristic style of a given movement, presenting analyses of major paintings, sculpture, and architecture in each period. Major periods, each reviewed in separate chapters, include prehistoric art, Ancient Near Eastern art, Egyptian art, Aegean art, Greek art, Etruscan art, Roman art, Byzantine art, Islamic art, early medieval European art, art of the Romanesque and Gothic periods, Italian and Northern European Renaissance art, the Baroque Rococo, Neoclassical eras, and art of the late 19th and entire 20th centuries, leading to the art movements of today. A diagnostic exam precedes the chapters surveying art history, and two full-length AP practice exams are presented at the end of the book with answer keys, diagnostic charts, and answer explanations. The text is profusely illustrated.

Table of Contents

Getting to Know the Ap Exam in Art History

Introduction

Answering the Multiple-Choice Questions

Answering the Free-Response Questions

Diagnostic Test

Test Answer Key

Content Review

Prehistoric Art

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Egyptian Art

Aegean Art

Greek Art

Etruscan Art

Roman Art

Late Antique Art

Byzantine Art

Islamic Art

Early Medieval Art

Romanesque Gothic Art

Gothic Art in Italy

Early Renaissance in Northern Europe: Fifteenth Century

Early Renaissance in Italy: Fifteenth Century

High Renaissance Mannerism and Other Trends of Late Sixteenth-Century Italy

Later Renaissance in Northern Europe and Spain: Sixteenth Century Baroque Art

The Rococo Neoclassicism

Romanticism

Late Nineteenth- Century

Art Early Twentieth- Century

Art Late Twentieth-Century

Art and the Contemporary World

Indian Art

Chinese Art

Japanese Art

Art of the Americas

African Art

Pacific Art

Practice Tests

Practice Test 1

Practice Test 2

Glossary Photo Credits

Index

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