History of Art for Young People

by Janson, Anthony F.

• ISBN13: 9780810905115
• ISBN10: 0810905116
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

H. W. Janson was a Professor of Fine Arts at New York University.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	11	(1)
A Primer of Art History	12	(5)
Introduction	17	(1)
Art and the Artist	17	(5)
Imagination	17	(1)
Creativity	18	(2)
Originality and Tradition	20	(1)
Meaning and Style	21	(1)
Self-Expression and Audience	21	(1)
Tastes	22	(1)
Looking at Art	22	(12)
The Visual Elements	22	(9)
Meaning	31	(3)
Part One THE ANCIENT WORLD	34	(112)
Map the Ancient World	38	(2)
Prehistoric Art in Europe and North America	40	(7)
The Old Stone Age	41	(2)
Cave Art	41	(1)
Portable Objects	42	(1)
The New Stone Age	43
Neolithic Europe	43	(2)
Neolithic North America	45
Table Major Events in Prehistory	42	(5)
Egyptian Art	47	(17)
The Old Kingdom	48	(10)
Dynasties	48	(1)
Tombs and Religion	48	(1)
Sculpture	48	(5)
Architecture	53	(5)
The Middle Kingdom	58	(1)
Tomb Decorations	58	(1)
The New Kingdom	58
Hatshepsut	59	(1)
Akhenaten	59	(2)
Tutankhamun	61	(1)
Ramesses II	61
Table Major Periods in Ancient Egypt	48	(16)
Ancient Near Eastern Art	64	(12)
Sumerian Art	65	(8)
Architecture	65	(2)
Sculpture	67	(2)
Ur	69	(1)
Babylon	70	(1)
Assyria	71	(1)
The Neo-Babylonians	72	(1)
Persian Art	73
Animal Style	73	(1)
The Achaemenids	74
Table Major Civilizations in the Ancient Near East	67	(9)
Aegean Art	76	(8)
Cycladic Art	77	(1)
Minoan Art	78	(4)
Architecture	79	(1)
Sculpture	80	(1)
Painting	80	(2)
Mycenaean Art	82
Table Major Civilizations in the Aegean	78	(6)
Greek Art	84	(34)
Painting	85	(9)
Geometric Style	85	(2)
Orientalizing Style	87	(3)
Archaic Style	90	(2)
Classical Style	92	(2)
Temples	94	(7)
Orders	94	(1)
Temple Plans	95	(1)
Doric Order	95	(5)
Ionic Order	100	(1)
Sculpture	101
Archaic Style	102	(3)
Classical Style	105	(8)
Fourth-Century Sculpture	113	(2)
Hellenistic Style	115
Box the Greek Gods and Goddesses	89	(5)
Box the Hero in Greek Legend	94	(16)
Box Music, Poetry, and Theater in Ancient Greece	110
Table Major Periods of Greek Art	87	(31)
Etruscan Art	118	(7)
Tombs and Their Decoration	119	(6)
Early Funerary Beliefs	119	(1)
Later Funerary Beliefs	120	(2)
Temples	122	(1)
Sculpture	122	(2)
The Architecture of Cities	124	(1)
Roman Art	125	(21)
Architecture	126	(6)
Sculpture	132	(7)
Portraits	132	(4)
Reliefs	136	(3)
Painting	139
Roman Illusionism	139	(3)
Greek Sources	142	(1)
Portraits	143
Table Rome's Republic and Empires	132	(1)
Table Major Roman Emperors	132	(12)
Time Line 1 (4000 s.c.-300 A.D.)	144	(2)
Part Two THE MIDDLE AGES	146	(118)
Map the Middle Ages	150	(2)
Early Christian and Byzantine Art	152	(28)
Early Christian Art	153	(12)
Catacombs	153	(3)
Architecture	156	(2)
Mosaics	158	(1)
Roll, Book, and Illustration	159	(3)
Sculpture	162	(3)
Byzantine Art	165
Early Byzantine Art	165	(9)
Middle Byzantine Art	174	(2)
Late Byzantine Painting	176
Box Biblical, Church, and Celestial Beings	155	(5)
Box Versions of the Bible	160	(2)
Box Covenants Old and New	162	(2)
Box the Life of Jesus	164	(7)
Box the Liturgy of the Mass	171
Table Major Dates in the Early Christian and Byzantine Periods	158	(22)
Early Medieval Art	180	(16)
Celtic-Germanic Style	181	(1)
Hiberno-Saxon Style	182	(3)
Manuscripts and Book Covers	183	(2)
Carolingian Art	185	(5)
Architecture	185	(2)
Manuscripts and Book Covers	187	(3)
Ottonian Art	190
Sculpture	190	(1)
Architecture	191	(2)
Metalwork	193	(1)
Manuscripts	194
Box What Is an Architect and Who Is a Master?	187	(9)
Romanesque Art	196	(19)
Architecture	198	(8)
Southwestern France	198	(2)
Burgundy and Western France	200	(2)
Normandy and England	202	(2)
Italy	204	(2)
Sculpture	206	(4)
Southwestern France	206	(2)
Burgundy	208	(1)
The Meuse Valley	209	(1)
Italy	209	(1)
Painting and Metalwork	210
The Channel Region	210	(3)
Southwestern France	213	(1)
The Meuse Valley	214
Box Monasticism and Christian Monastic Orders	200	(12)
Box Hildegard of Bingen	212	(3)
Gothic Art	215	(49)
Architecture	216	(15)
France	216	(9)
England	225	(2)
Germany	227	(1)
Italy	227	(4)
Sculpture	231	(12)
France	231	(6)
Germany	237	(2)
International Style Sculpture in the North	239	(1)
Italy	240	(2)
International Style Sculpture in the South	242	(1)
Painting	243
France	243	(2)
Italy	245	(10)
Painting North of the Alps	255	(2)
International Style Painting	257
Box Dionysian Theology and the Abbey of St-Denis	218	(44)
Time Line 2 (400-1400)	262	(2)
Part Three THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO	264	(188)
Map the Renaissance through the Rococo	268	(2)
The Early Renaissance in Italy	270	(29)
Sculpture	272	(7)
Architecture	279	(5)
Painting	284
Box Scientific Perspective	276	(23)
The High Renaissance in Italy	299	(24)
Leonardo da Vinci	300	(4)
Bramante	304	(2)
Michelangelo	306	(8)
Raphael	314	(5)
Giorgione	319	(1)
Titian	319	(4)
The Late Renaissance in Italy	323	(23)
Painting	326	(14)
Mannerism in Florence and Rome	326	(7)
North Italian Realism	333	(2)
Venice	335	(5)
Sculpture	340	(2)
Mannerism	340	(2)
Architecture	342	(4)
Mannerism	342	(1)
Classicism	343	(1)
Religious Architecture	344	(2)
``Late Gothic'' Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts	346	(19)
Netherlandish Painting	347	(10)
Swiss and French Painting	357	(2)
``Late Gothic'' Sculpture	359	(2)
The Graphic Arts	361	(4)
Printing	361	(1)
Engraving	361	(4)
The Renaissance in the North	365	(17)
Germany	366	(9)
The Netherlands	375	(5)
France	380	(2)
The Baroque in Italy and Spain	382	(21)
Painting in Italy	384	(9)
Architecture in Italy	393	(3)
Sculpture in Italy	396	(4)
Painting in Spain	400	(3)
The Baroque in Flanders and Holland	403	(17)
Flanders	404	(5)
Holland	409	(11)
Landscape, Still-Life, and Genre Painters	415	(5)
The Baroque in France and England	420	(14)
Painting in France	421	(4)
The Royal Academy	425	(1)
Architecture in France	425	(6)
Sculpture in France	431	(1)
England	432	(2)
The Rococo	434	(18)
France	435	(6)
The Decorative Arts	435	(1)
Sculpture	436	(1)
Painting	437	(4)
England	441	(3)
Germany and Austria	444	(3)
Italy	447	(3)
Time Line 3 (1400-1750)	450	(2)
Part Four THE MODERN WORLD	452	(226)
Map the Modern World	456	(2)
Neoclassicism	458	(17)
The Enlightenment	459	(1)
Painting	459	(7)
France	459	(3)
England	462	(4)
Sculpture	466	(2)
Architecture	468	(1)
England	468	(1)
France	469	(3)
Neoclassicism and the Antique	472
Box Neoclassical Music	468	(7)
Romanticism	475	(36)
Painting	476	(22)
Spain	476	(3)
France	479	(12)
England	491	(4)
Germany	495	(1)
United States	496	(2)
Sculpture	498	(4)
Italy	498	(1)
France	499	(3)
Architecture	502	(4)
The Classical Revival	502	(1)
The Gothic Revival	503	(2)
Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque Architecture	505	(1)
Photography	506	(5)
The Founders of Photography	507	(1)
Portraiture	508	(1)
The Restless Spirit and Stereophotography	509	(1)
Photojournalism	509	(2)
Realism and Impressionism	511	(27)
Painting	512	(17)
France	512	(12)
England	524	(1)
United States	525	(4)
Sculpture	529	(3)
Architecture	532	(2)
Box the Materials of Modern Architecture	534	(4)
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau	538	(23)
Painting	539	(13)
Post-Impressionism	539	(7)
Symbolism	546	(6)
Sculpture	552	(2)
Architecture	554	(2)
Art Nouveau	554	(2)
The United States	556	(1)
Photography	556	(5)
Documentary Photography	556	(1)
Pictorialism	557	(1)
Photo-Secession	558	(2)
Motion Photography	560	(1)
Twentieth-Century Painting	561	(46)
Painting before World War I	562	(16)
The Fauves	562	(3)
German Expressionism	565	(4)
Abstraction	569	(1)
Cubism	569	(5)
Suprematism	574	(1)
Fantasy	575	(2)
Realism	577	(1)
The Armory Show	578	(1)
Painting between the Wars	578	(13)
The Founders	578	(4)
Abstraction	582	(2)
Fantasy	584	(4)
Expressionism	588	(2)
Realism	590	(1)
Painting since World War II	591	(13)
Action Painting	591	(4)
Expressionism in Europe	595	(1)
Color Field Painting	596	(1)
Minimalism	597	(1)
African-American Painting	598	(1)
Op Art	599	(1)
Pop Art	600	(2)
Photorealism	602	(2)
Late Modernism	604	(3)
Neo-Expressionism and Neo-Abstraction	604	(3)
Twentieth-Century Sculpture	607	(22)
Sculpture before World War I	608	(3)
France	608	(2)
Italy	610	(1)
Sculpture between the Wars	611	(7)
Russia	611	(1)
France	612	(4)
England	616	(2)
Sculpture since 1945	618	(11)
Primary Structures and Environmental Sculpture	618	(1)
Minimalism and Post-Minimalism	619	(1)
African-American Sculpture	620	(1)
Earth Art	620	(1)
Monuments	621	(1)
Constructions and Assemblage	622	(3)
Environments and Installations	625	(2)
Conceptual Art	627	(1)
Performance Art	627	(2)
Twentieth-Century Architecture	629	(16)
Architecture before World War I	630	(3)
Early Modernism	630	(2)
Expressionism	632	(1)
Architecture between the Wars	633	(8)
De Stijl	634	(1)
The International Style	634	(5)
Expressionism	639	(2)
Architecture since 1945	641	(4)
High Modernism	641	(1)
Late Modernism	641	(1)
Neo-Expressionism	642	(1)
Neo-Modernism	643	(2)
Twentieth-Century Photography	645	(14)
The First Half-Century	646	(9)
The Paris School	646	(1)
The United States	647	(5)
Germany	652	(1)
The Heroic Age of Photography	652	(1)
Fantasy and Abstraction	653	(2)
Photography since 1945	655	(4)
The United States	655	(1)
England	656	(1)
Artists as Photographers	656	(3)
Postmodernism	659	(19)
Postmodern Art	661	(1)
Architecture	662	(5)
Postmodernism	662	(1)
Deconstructivism	663	(2)
Architecture after Post-modernism: What's Next	665	(2)
Sculpture	667	(4)
Installations	668	(3)
Painting	671	(1)
Photography	672	(2)
Time Line 4 (1750-2002)	674	(4)
Glossary	678	(4)
Books for Further Reading	682	(3)
Index	685	(10)
List of Credits	695