Gardner's Art Through the Ages

by Tansev, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780155011410
• ISBN10: 0155011413
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780155058811
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-04
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This classic art history survey text has sold more than two million copies since it was first published in 1926. The ideal text for the full-year art history course, it surveys the entire span of Western art from prehistory to the present and offers overviews of significant areas of non-Western art. Heightened visual appeal and superior accuracy of color resulting from printing at 175-line screen resolution. Addition of new maps, timelines, and improved photographic views. Reorganized, expanded, and revised chapters in Part One reflect significant changes in the field of ancient art over the last decade. (New co-author Fred S. Kleiner, Classical scholar, is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology, the official journal of the Archaeological Institute of America.) Increased attention to social and political context of works of art in the ancient world. Presentation of more classical works of art created for non-elite patrons. Reorganized Early Christian, Islamic, and Byzantine material. Expanded coverage of Chinese art and introduction of Korean art. Expanded coverage of Mayan ceramics and stelae, new coverage of Peruvian textiles and Colombian goldwork. Revision of African art, updated in a separate chapter with twice as many images as the previous edition. Reorganized chapters covering Northern and Italian Renaissance. Increased coverage of women and minority artists. Totally reorganized eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century material; many new images from nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction	3	(1)
The Aim of Art History	4	(1)
Classification Categories of Art History	4	(14)
The Problem of Representation	18	(2)
I The Ancient World	20	(260)
The Birth Of Art	24	(16)
Paleolithic Art	26	(7)
Mesolithic Art	33	(2)
Neolithic Art	35	(5)
Ancient Near Eastern Art	40	(24)
Sumerian Art	42	(7)
Akkadian Art	49	(1)
Neo-Sumerian Art	50	(1)
Babylonian Art	51	(1)
Hittite Art	52	(1)
Elamite Art	52	(1)
Assyrian Art	53	(4)
Neo-Babylonian Art	57	(1)
Achaemenid Persian Art	58	(3)
Sasanian Art	61	(3)
Egyptian Art	64	(34)
The Predynastic Period	66	(3)
The Old Kingdom	69	(12)
The Middle Kingdom	81	(1)
The New Kingdom	82	(16)
Aegean Art	98	(18)
Cycladic Art	101	(1)
Minoan Art	102	(8)
Mycenaean Art	110	(6)
Greek Art	116	(68)
The Geometric and Orientalizing Periods	119	(5)
The Archaic Period	124	(16)
The Early and High Classical Periods	140	(21)
The Late Classical Period	161	(10)
The Hellenistic Period	171	(13)
Etruscan Art	184	(14)
Early Etruscan Art	186	(7)
Later Etruscan Art	193	(5)
Roman Art	198	(58)
The Republic	200	(5)
Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius	205	(12)
The Early Empire	217	(10)
The High Empire	227	(15)
The Late Empire	242	(14)
Early Christian Art	256	(24)
The Catacombs and Funerary Art	259	(4)
Architecture and Mosaics	263	(11)
Luxury Arts	274	(6)
II The Middle Ages	280	(182)
Byzantine Art	284	(34)
Byzantium: The Eastern Roman Christian Empire	286	(1)
Early Byzantine Art	287	(16)
Middle Byzantine Art	303	(9)
Late Byzantine Art	312	(6)
Islamic Art	318	(26)
Early Islamic Architecture	321	(8)
Islamic Architectural Ornament	329	(3)
Later Islamic Architecture: Mosque, Madrasa, Mausoleum	332	(5)
Object Art and Textiles	337	(2)
The Art of Calligraphy	339	(2)
The Art of Book Illustration	341	(3)
Early Medieval Art In The West	344	(34)
The Animal Style: Scythian Antecedents	350	(1)
Art of the Germanic Peoples	351	(4)
Hiberno-Saxon Art	355	(4)
Viking Art	359	(2)
Carolingian Art	361	(9)
Ottonian Art	370	(8)
Romanesque Art	378	(36)
Architecture	385	(12)
Sculpture	397	(10)
Painting	407	(2)
Illumination	409	(5)
Gothic Art	414	(48)
Early Gothic	420	(9)
High Gothic	429	(16)
Late Gothic	445	(3)
Gothic Outside of France	448	(14)
III The World Beyond Europe	462	(156)
The Art of Indian Asia	468	(24)
The Spread of Indian Art	483	(9)
The Art of China And Korea	492	(36)
China	494	(28)
Korea	522	(6)
The Art of Japan	528	(24)
Archaic Period	530	(2)
Asuka Period	532	(2)
Early Heian and Late Heian (Fujiwara) Periods	534	(4)
Kamakura Period	538	(2)
Ashikaga Period	540	(3)
Momoyama and Edo (Tokugawa) Periods	543	(8)
Domestic Architecture	551	(1)
The Native Arts Of The Americas And Of Oceania	552	(44)
The Pre-Columbian Art of the Americas	554	(1)
Mesoamerica	554	(16)
South America	570	(8)
North America	578	(9)
Oceania	587	(7)
Afterword: The Present	594	(2)
The Arts of Africa	596	(22)
The Varied Contexts of African Art	598	(1)
Stylistic Distinctions	599	(1)
Artists and Materials	600	(1)
Chronology and African Art	600	(5)
Leadership and Art	605	(2)
Spirituality and Art	607	(4)
Masks and Masquerades	611	(5)
Afterword: The Present	616	(2)
IV The Renaissance And The Baroque And Rococo	618	(304)
Late Gothic Art In Italy	624	(24)
The City-States: Economies and Politics	626	(1)
Humanism: The Revival of Classical Values	627	(1)
The Humanizing of Religious Experience	627	(2)
Sculpture	629	(1)
Painting	630	(18)
Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe And Spain	648	(30)
The Rise of Capitalism	650	(1)
The Burgundian Netherlands	651	(19)
France, Germany, and Spain	670	(8)
Fifteenth-Century Italian Art: The Early Renaissance	678	(50)
The First Half of the Fifteenth Century	680	(26)
The Second Half of the Fifteenth Century	706	(22)
Sixteenth-Century Italian Art: The High Renaissance And Mannerism	728	(60)
The High Renaissance	730	(32)
Mannerism	762	(9)
Venetian Art and Architecture	771	(17)
Sixteenth-Century Art In Northern Europe And Spain	788	(28)
The Protestant Reformation	790	(1)
Germany	791	(10)
The Netherlands	801	(5)
France	806	(4)
Spain	810	(6)
Baroque Art	816	(62)
Italy	820	(22)
Spain	842	(6)
Flanders	848	(5)
Holland	853	(12)
France	865	(10)
England	875	(3)
The Eighteenth Century: Late Baroque And Rococo, And The Rise Of Romanticism	878	(44)
The Enlightenment: Philosophy and Society	880	(2)
The Early Eighteenth Century: Late Baroque and Rococo	882	(12)
The Enlightenment: Science and Technology	894	(3)
Reaction against the Rococo: The Taste for the ``Natural''	897	(7)
The Rise of Romanticism	904	(18)
V The Modern And Postmodern World	922	(232)
The Ninteenth Century: Pluralism Of Style	926	(92)
Science and Technology	928	(2)
The Artist: Traditional or Modern?	930	(1)
The Early Nineteenth Century: The Role of Romanticism	931	(26)
Mid-Century Realism: The Reaction against Romanticism	957	(37)
The Later Nineteenth Century: Reactions against Realism in Painting	994	(16)
Sculpture in the Later Nineteenth Century	1010	(3)
Architecture in the Later Nineteenth Century: The Beginnings of a New Style	1013	(5)
The Early Twentieth Century: The Establishment of Modernist Art	1018	(72)
The Establishment of Modernist Art	1022	(1)
Architecture	1023	(10)
Painting and Sculpture	1033	(57)
The Later Twentieth Century	1090	(64)
Egalitarian Multiculturalism in Postmodern Art	1094	(2)
Postwar Expressionism in Europe	1096	(1)
Modernist Formalism	1097	(13)
Earth and Site Art	1110	(2)
Pop Art and Postmodern Trends	1112	(26)
Modernism and Postmodernism in Architecture	1138	(14)
Functionalism Again	1152	(2)
Pronunciation Guide to Artists' Names	1154	(4)
Glossary	1158	(11)
Bibliography	1169	(11)
Acknowledgments	1180	(2)
Index	1182