Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Vol. II

by Kleiner

• ISBN13: 9780155070868
• ISBN10: 015507086X
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Thomson Learning

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Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Introduction The Subjects and Vocabulary of Art History	xiii
Art, History, and the History of Art	xiii
Art History in the Twenty-First Century	xiv
Different Ways of Seeing	xxvii
Religion and Mythology: The Gods and Goddesses of Mount Olympus	xxviii
Religion and Mythology: Buddhism and Buddhist Iconography	xxix
Religion and Mythology: The Life of Jesus in Art	xxx
Architectural Basics: Classical Architecture	xxxii
Architectural Basics: Medieval Churches	xxxiii
From Gothic to Renaissance: The Fourteenth Century in Italy	533	(26)
The City-States: Politics and Economics	534	(1)
Disruption and Change	534	(1)
Letters and Learning	535	(2)
The Movement Away from Medievalism in Art	537	(1)
Religion and Mythology: Mendicant Orders and Confraternities	537	(1)
Art and Society: Artists' Names in Renaissance Italy	538	(1)
Art and Society: Art to Order: Commissions and Patronage	539	(4)
Materials and Techniques: Fresco Painting	543	(9)
Written Sources: A Majestic Altarpiece: Duccio's Maesta	552	(2)
Art and Society: Mastering a Craft: Artistic Training in the Renaissance	554	(5)
Of Piety, Passion, and Politics: Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain	559	(30)
Political, Economic, and Religious Developments in the Fifteenth Century	560	(1)
French Manuscript Illumination	560	(1)
Fifteenth-Century Flemish Art	561	(20)
Fifteenth-Century French Art	581	(2)
Fifteenth-Century German Art	583	(4)
Fifteenth-Century Spanish Art	587
Materials and Techniques: Painters, Pigments, and Panels	567	(7)
Materials and Techniques: Edges and Borders: Framing Paintings	574	(12)
Materials and Techniques: Graphic Changes: The Development of Printmaking	586	(3)
Humanism and the Allure of Antiquity: Fifteenth-Century Italian Art	589	(46)
The ``Rebirth'' of Italian Culture	590	(1)
Florence	590	(25)
The Rise of Portraiture	615	(5)
Further Developments in Architecture	620	(2)
Images of Piety and Devotion	622	(3)
The Princely Courts	625	(7)
Turmoil at the End of the Century	632
Art and Society: Dukes, Despots, Fame, and Fortune: The Princely Courts	591	(3)
Materials and Techniques: Depicting Objects in Space: Perspectival Systems in the Early Renaissance	594	(3)
Religion and Mythology: From San Francisco to Sao Paulo: The Path to Sainthood	597	(5)
Written Sources: Imitation and Emulation: Artistic Values in the Renaissance	602	(7)
Art and Society: Honoring God and Family: Family Chapel Endowment	609	(26)
Beauty, Science, and Spirit in Italian Art: The High Renaissance and Mannerism	635	(54)
Upheaval in the Church	636	(1)
The High Renaissance	636	(37)
Mannerism	673	(7)
Later Sixteenth-Century Architecture	680	(1)
Later Sixteenth-Century Venetian Art and Architecture	681
Written Sources: The Role of Religious Art in Counter-Reformation Italy	637	(2)
Materials and Techniques: Disegno: Drawing on Design Fundamentals	639	(5)
Written Sources: The Merits of Painting Versus Sculpture: The Views of Leonardo and Michelangelo	644	(8)
Art in the News: Restoring the Glory of Renaissance Frescoes	652	(2)
Written Sources: Giorgio Vasari on Raphael	654	(14)
Written Sources: Negotiating a Contract: Titian and the Battle of Cadore	668	(5)
Art and Society: The Feminine Mystique: Women Patrons During the Renaissance	673	(16)
The Age of Reformation: Sixteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain	689	(30)
The Protestant Reformation	690	(1)
Holy Roman Empire (Including Germany)	691	(13)
France	704	(4)
The Netherlands	708	(5)
Spain	713
Written Sources: Martin Luther on Religious Art	692	(8)
Written Sources: The Uses of Allegory	700	(19)
Of Popes, Peasants, Monarchs, and Merchants: Baroque and Rococo Art	719	(70)
The ``Baroque''	720	(1)
Baroque Art of the Seventeenth Century	721	(57)
Late Baroque Art of the Early Eighteenth Century	778	(2)
Rococo: The French Taste	780
Art and Society: Centuries of Church History on View: Visiting Vatican City	724	(28)
Art and Society: The Butcher, The Baker, the Candlestick Maker: Dutch Patronage and Art Collecting	752	(6)
Art in the News: Separating the Real from the Fake: The Rembrandt Research Project	758	(3)
Art and Society: Mercantile Prosperity: Developing an Open Art Market	761	(21)
Written Sources: of Knowledge, Taste, and Refinement: Salon Culture	782	(7)
Religious Change and Colonial Rule: The Later Art of South and Southeast Asia	789	(14)
India and Southeast Asia	790	(1)
India	790	(6)
Thailand	796	(3)
Burma	799	(1)
Vietnam	799	(1)
Contemporary Art in India and Southeast Asia	800
Art and Society: Mughal Kings' Attitudes Toward Painting	792	(1)
Religion and Mythology: Goddess Worship in India	793	(5)
Written Sources: King Ramkhamhaeng and the Thai Nation	798	(2)
Art in the News: Ceramic Trade in Southeast Asia During the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries	800	(3)
Incursion, Restoration, and Transformation: The Art of Later China and Korea	803	(14)
China	804	(10)
Korea	814
Materials and Techniques: Inscriptions on Chinese Paintings	805	(2)
Materials and Techniques: Chinese Procelain	807	(10)
From the Shoguns to the Present: The Art of Later Japan	817	(18)
Feudal Japan	818	(11)
Modern Japan	829
Religion and Mythology: Zen and Zen Art: Ideals and Realities	819	(4)
Art and Society: The Japanese Tea Ceremony	823	(8)
Materials and Techniques: Japanese Woodblock Prints	831	(4)
The Enlightenment and Its Legacy: Neoclassicism Through the Mid-Nineteenth Century	835	(54)
The Enlightenment: Philosophy and Society	836	(1)
The Enlightenment: Science and Technology	837	(2)
Voltaire versus Rousseau: Science versus the Taste for the ``Natural''	839	(8)
The Revival of Interest in Classicism	847	(12)
From Neoclassicism to Romanticism	859	(3)
The Rise of Romanticism	862	(12)
Imagination and Mood in Landscape Painting	874	(6)
Various Revivalist Styles in Architecture	880	(3)
The Beginnings of Photography	883
Art and Society: Grand Tour: Travel, Education, and Italy's Allure	842	(7)
Art and Society: Rising from the Ashes: The Excavation of Herculaneum and Pompeii	849	(24)
Art and Society: The Romantic Spirit in Music and Literature	873	(16)
The Rise of Modernism: The Later Nineteenth Century	889	(52)
Industrialization, Urbanization, and Expanding Global Consciousness	890	(1)
Realism: The Painting of Modern Life	891	(8)
Realism Outside France	899	(4)
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood	903	(1)
Impressionism: Capturing the Fugitive Images of Modern Life	904	(12)
Post-Impressionism: Experimenting with Form and Color	916	(8)
The Rise of the Avant-Grade	924	(1)
Symbolism: Freedom of Imagination, Expression, and Form	924	(3)
Sculpture in the Later Nineteenth Century	927	(4)
The Arts and Crafts Movement	931	(1)
Art Nouveau	932	(2)
Fin-de-Siecle Culture	934	(1)
Other Architecture in the Later Nineteenth Century	934
Art and Society: The Academies: Defining the Range of Acceptable Art	898	(14)
Art and Society: Japonisme: The Allure of the Orient	912	(5)
Art and Society: From Pariah to Paragon: The Shifting Fortunes of Vincent Van Gogh	917	(3)
Materials and Techniques: Nineteenth-Century Color Theory	920	(21)
Before and After the Conquistadors: Native Arts of the Americas After 1000	941	(20)
Mesoamerica	942	(4)
South America	946	(5)
North America	951
Religion and Mythology: Aztec Religion	944	(3)
Art and Society: Inca Clothing and Social Status	947	(6)
Art and Society: Native American Artists	953	(8)
Elders, ``Big Men,'' Chiefs, and Kings: The Arts of Oceania	961	(18)
The Islands of Oceania	962	(1)
Melanesia	962	(7)
Micronesia	969	(1)
Polynesia	970	(5)
Australia	975	(2)
Oceanic Art Today	977
Materials and Techniques: Polynesian Barkcloth	971	(3)
Written Sources: Chief Rangihaeata's Meeting House on Mana	974	(5)
Exploration, Colonization, and Independence: Later African Art	979	(22)
European Contact and Early Colonization	980	(1)
The Nature of African Art	981	(3)
Subjects and Themes	984	(13)
Afterword: The Present	997
Art and Society: A San Rock Painting as a Historical Document	980	(5)
Art and Society: Artists in Africa: The Dan and the Benin Court	985	(2)
Written Sources: The King's Compound in Benin	987	(8)
Art and Society: Mende Women as Maskers	995	(6)
The Triumph of Modernist Art: The Early Twentieth Century	1001	(72)
Expressionism in Early-Twentieth-Century Europe	1004	(7)
Early Expressionist Sculpture	1011	(1)
Embracing Abstraction	1011	(11)
Challenging Artistic Conventions	1022	(4)
Transatlantic Artistic Dialogues	1026	(6)
European Expressionism in the Wake of World War I	1032	(14)
New Art for a New Society-Utopian Ideals	1046	(12)
Emphasizing the Organic	1058	(5)
Art as Political Statement in the 1930s	1063	(7)
Emigres and Exiles: Energizing American Art at Midcentury	1070
Art and Society: Nurturing the Avant-Garde: Gertrude and Leo Stein as Art Patrons	1015	(29)
Art and Society: ``Primitivism,'' Colonialism, and Early-Twentieth-Century Western Art	1044	(11)
Art and Society: ``Degenerate Art''	1055	(10)
Art and Society: The Museum of Modern Art and the Avant-Garde	1065	(8)
The Emergence of Postmodernism: The Later Twentieth Century	1073	(65)
World War II and Its Aftermath	1074	(1)
The Art World's Focus Shifts West	1075	(1)
Postwar Expressionism in Europe	1075	(2)
Modernist Formalism	1077	(13)
Alternatives to Modernist Formalism	1090	(13)
New Models for Architecture: Modernism to Postmodernism	1103	(10)
Postmodernism in Painting, Sculpture, and New Media	1113
Art and Society: The Power of Minimalism: Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial	1085	(18)
Art and Society: Tilted Arc and the Problems of Public Art	1103	(30)
Art and Society: The Art Market in the Later Twentieth Century	1133	(5)
Notes	1138	(6)
Pronunciation Guide to Artists' Names	1144	(4)
Glossary	1148	(16)
Bibliography	1164	(14)
Credits	1178	(3)
Index	1181