Study Guide for use with History of Western Art

by ADAMS L

• ISBN13: 9780072388305
• ISBN10: 0072388307
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-03
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Written entirely by Laurie Adams, the exercises in this guide challenge students to match artists with their work, match artworks with their style and period, identify significant figures, recognize contextual background relevant to the study of art, and much more. The pages are conveniently perforated so that the printed questions may be assigned as homework and handed in to professors.

Table of Contents

Introduction	v
Why Do We Study The History of Art?	1	(6)
The Language of Art	7	(6)
Prehistoric Western Europe	13	(6)
The Ancient Near East	19	(12)
Ancient Egypt	31	(8)
The Aegean	39	(10)
The Art of Ancient Greece	49	(12)
The Art of the Etruscans	61	(6)
Ancient Rome	67	(12)
Early Christian and Byzantine Art	79	(8)
The Early Middle Ages	87	(8)
Romanesque Art	95	(8)
Gothic Art	103	(12)
Precursors of the Renaissance	115	(8)
The Early Renaissance	123	(12)
The High Renaissance in Italy	135	(10)
Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century	145	(8)
Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe	153	(8)
The Baroque Style in Western Europe	161	(12)
Rococo and the Eighteenth Century	173	(8)
Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries	181	(8)
Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries	189	(10)
Nineteenth-Century Realism	199	(8)
Nineteenth-Century Impressionism	207	(10)
Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century	217	(10)
Turn of the Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse	227	(8)
Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles	235	(10)
Social Realism, Regionalism and Abstraction	245	(10)
Abstract Expressionism	255	(8)
Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism	263	(8)
Innovation and Continuity	271