Gardner's Art Through the Ages With Infotrac

by Gardner, Helen; Mamiya, Christin J.; Tansey, Richard G.; Kleiner, Fred S.

• ISBN13: 9780534610920
• ISBN10: 0534610927
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-02
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This new alternative, GARDNER'S WESTERN ART THROUGH THE AGES, offers instructors and students a brief, strictly Western approach to art history and retains all of the hallmark features of the market-leading Eleventh Edition in a concise 23-chapter format (also available in a two-volume split). Unique to books with a Western Art focus, the authors retain the chapter on Islam, providing students with insightful coverage of the Islamic tradition's impact on Western culture and art history. Featuring an outstanding art program with more color photos than any comparable art history survey textbook, the authors focus on the context and function of the role of art.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxi
Introduction
The Subjects and Vocabulary of Art History	xxxiii
Art, History, and the History of Art	xxxiii
Art History in the Twenty-First Century	xxxiv
Different Ways of Seeing	xlvii
The Birth of Art: Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age	1	(16)
What is Art?	2	(1)
Paleolithic Art	2	(10)
Neolithic Art	12	(5)
The Rise of Civilization: The Art of the Ancient Near East	17	(26)
The Land Between the Rivers	18	(1)
Sumerian Art	18	(7)
Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian, Babylonian, and Hittite Art	25	(6)
Elamite and Assyrian Art	31	(6)
Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Persian Art	37	(2)
Near Eastern Art after Alexander	39	(4)
Pharaohs and the Afterlife: The Art of Ancient Egypt	43	(34)
The Land of the Nile	44	(1)
The Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods	44	(6)
The Old Kingdom	50	(9)
The Middle Kingdom	59	(1)
The New Kingdom	60	(14)
The Late Period	74	(3)
Minos and the Heroes of Homer: The Art of the Prehistoric Aegean	77	(20)
The Prehistoric Aegean Rediscovered	78	(1)
Cycladic Art	79	(1)
Minoan Art	79	(10)
Mycenaean (Late Helladic) Art	89	(8)
Gods, Heroes, and Athletes: The Art of Ancient Greece	97	(64)
Greek Humanism	98	(3)
The Geometric and Orientalizing Periods (Ninth-Seventh Centuries B.C.)	101	(4)
The Archaic Period (Sixth Century B.C.)	105	(15)
The Early and High Classical Periods (Fifth Century B.C.)	120	(19)
The Late Classical Period (Fourth Century B.C.)	139	(9)
The Hellenistic Period (323-31 B.C.)	148	(13)
Italy Before the Romans: The Art of the Etruscans	161	(14)
Who were the Etruscans?	162	(1)
Early Etruscan Art	162	(7)
Later Etruscan Art	169	(6)
From Seven Hills to Three Continents: The Art of Ancient Rome	175	(56)
The Mighty Empire of Rome	176	(1)
The Republic	176	(6)
Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius	182	(12)
The Early Empire	194	(10)
The High Empire	204	(15)
The Late Empire	219	(12)
Pagans, Christians, and Jews: The Art of Late Antiquity	231	(24)
The World of Late Antiquity	232	(1)
The Catacombs and Funerary Art	233	(7)
Architecture and Mosaics	240	(9)
Luxury Arts	249	(6)
Rome in the East: The Art of Byzantium	255	(34)
Byzantium: The New Rome	256	(1)
Early Byzantine Art (527-726)	257	(16)
Iconoclasm (726-843)	273	(1)
Middle Byzantine Art (843-1204)	273	(9)
Late Byzantine Art (1204-1453)	282	(7)
Muhammad and the Muslims: Islamic Art	289	(26)
The Rise of Islam	290	(1)
Early Islamic Art	291	(11)
Later Islamic Art	302	(13)
Europe After the Fall of Rome: Early Medieval Art in the West	315	(26)
Medieval Europe	316	(1)
The Art of the Warrior Lords	316	(3)
Hiberno-Saxon Art	319	(5)
Carolingian Art	324	(9)
Ottonian Art	333	(8)
The Age of Pilgrims and Crusaders: Romanesque Art	341	(34)
Romanesque Europe	342	(1)
Architecture	342	(11)
Sculpture	353	(13)
Painting	366	(9)
The Age of the Great Cathedrals: Gothic Art	375	(46)
Gothic Europe	376	(1)
French Gothic	377	(29)
Gothic outside of France	406	(15)
From Gothic to Renaissance: The Fourteenth Century in Italy	421	(26)
The City-States: Politics and Economics	422	(1)
Disruption and Change	422	(1)
Letters and Learning	423	(2)
The Movement away from Medievalism in Art	425	(22)
Of Piety, Passion, and Politics: Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain	447	(30)
Political, Economic, and Religious Developments in the Fifteenth Century	448	(1)
French Manuscript Illumination	448	(1)
Fifteenth-Century Flemish Art	449	(20)
Fifteenth-Century French Art	469	(2)
Fifteenth-Century German Art	471	(4)
Fifteenth-Century Spanish Art	475	(2)
Humanism and the Allure of Antiquity: Fifteenth-Century Italian Art	478	(1)
Florence	478	(25)
The Rise of Portraiture	503	(5)
Further Developments in Architecture	508	(2)
Images of Piety and Devotion	510	(3)
The Princely Courts	513	(7)
Turmoil at the End of the Century	520	(3)
Beauty, Science, and Spirit in Italian Art: The High Renaissance and Mannerism	523	(54)
Upheaval in the Church	524	(1)
The High Renaissance	524	(37)
Mannerism	561	(7)
Later Sixteenth-Century Architecture	568	(1)
Later Sixteenth-Century Venetian Art and Architecture	569	(8)
The Age of Reformation: Sixteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain	577	(30)
The Protestant Reformation	578	(1)
Holy Roman Empire (Including Germany)	579	(13)
France	592	(4)
The Netherlands	596	(5)
Spain	601	(6)
Of Popes, Peasants, Monarchs, and Merchants: Baroque and Rococo Art	607	(70)
The ``Baroque''	608	(1)
Baroque Art of the Seventeenth Century	609	(57)
Late Baroque Art of the Early Eighteenth Century	666	(2)
Rococo: The French Taste	668	(9)
The Enlightenment and Its Legacy: Neoclassicism Through the Mid-Nineteenth Century	677	(54)
The Enlightenment: Philosophy and Society	678	(1)
The Enlightenment: Science and Technology	679	(2)
Voltaire Versus Rousseau: Science Versus the Taste for the ``Natural''	681	(8)
The Revival of Interest in Classicism	689	(12)
From Neoclassicism to Romanticism	701	(3)
The Rise of Romanticism	704	(12)
Imagination and Mood in Landscape Painting	716	(6)
Various Revivalist Styles in Architecture	722	(3)
The Beginnings of Photography	725	(6)
The Rise of Modernism: The Later Nineteenth Century	731	(52)
Industrialization, Urbanization, and Expanding Global Consciousness	732	(1)
Realism: The Painting of Modern Life	733	(8)
Realism Outside France	741	(4)
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood	745	(1)
Impressionism: Capturing the Fugitive Images of Modern Life	746	(12)
Post-Impressionism: Experimenting with Form and Color	758	(8)
The Rise of the Avant-Garde	766	(1)
Symbolism: Freedom of Imagination, Expression, and Form	766	(3)
Sculpture in the Later Nineteenth Century	769	(4)
The Arts and Crafts Movement	773	(1)
Art Nouveau	774	(2)
Fin-de-Siecle Culture	776	(1)
Other Architecture in the Later Nineteenth Century	776	(7)
The Triumph of Modernist Art: The Early Twentieth Century	783	(72)
Expressionism in Early-Twentieth-Century Europe	786	(7)
Early Expressionist Sculpture	793	(1)
Embracing Abstraction	793	(11)
Challenging Artistic Conventions	804	(4)
Transatlantic Artistic Dialogues	808	(6)
European Expressionism in the Wake of World War I	814	(14)
New Art for a New Society-Utopian Ideals	828	(12)
Emphasizing the Organic	840	(5)
Art as Political Statement in the 1930s	845	(7)
Emigres and Exiles: Energizing American Art at Midcentury	852	(3)
The Emergence of Postmodernism: The Later Twentieth Century	855	(65)
World War II and Its Aftermath	856	(1)
The Art World's Focus Shifts West	857	(1)
Postwar Expressionism in Europe	857	(2)
Modernist Formalism	859	(13)
Alternatives to Modernist Formalism	872	(13)
New Models for Architecture: Modernism to Postmodernism	885	(10)
Postmodernism in Painting, Sculpture, and New Media	895	(25)
Notes	920	(5)
Pronunciation Guide to Artists' Names	925	(4)
Glossary	929	(14)
Bibliography	943	(11)
Credits	954	(3)
Index	957