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Turn your brain into an art academy
Art History For Dummies is a time machine that guides you through the most beautiful, shocking, and influential moments in the history of human creativity. You'll learn your Picasso from your Warhol, your Realism from your Rococo-and we'll help you figure out why it all matters, anyway. In this new edition, you'll discover more female artists, the Harlem Renaissance, and additional prominent art movements. Take a deep dive into art history with this full-color book, and impress your friends with how knowledgeable you've become.
Inside...
- Cave paintings and ancient art
- The classics of Greece and Rome
- The art of architecture
- Medieval illuminations and religious art
- All about the Renaissance
- American Impressionism and Precisionism
- 20th century and Postmodern art
Turn your brain into an art academy
Art History For Dummies is a time machine that guides you through the most beautiful, shocking, and influential moments in the history of human creativity. You'll learn your Picasso from your Warhol, your Realism from your Rococo-and we'll help you figure out why it all matters, anyway. In this new edition, you'll discover more female artists, the Harlem Renaissance, and additional prominent art movements. Take a deep dive into art history with this full-color book, and impress your friends with how knowledgeable you've become.
Inside...
- Cave paintings and ancient art
- The classics of Greece and Rome
- The art of architecture
- Medieval illuminations and religious art
- All about the Renaissance
- American Impressionism and Precisionism
- 20th century and Postmodern art
Jesse Bryant Wilder is the founder, publisher, and editor of NEXUS, a series of interdisciplinary textbooks used in high schools around the country. He has written several textbooks on art and art history and was an art critic for The Plain Dealer and [...].
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Icons Used in This Book 2
Beyond the Book 2
Where to Go from Here 3
Part 1: Getting Started with Art History 5
Chapter 1: Art Tour through the Ages 7
Connecting Art Divisions and Culture 8
It's Ancient History, So Why Dig It Up? 8
Mesopotamian period (3500 bc-500 bc) and Egyptian period (3100 bc-332 bc) 9
Ancient Greek period (c 850 bc-323 bc) and Hellenistic period (323 bc-32 bc) 9
Roman period (300 bc-ad 476) 9
Did the Art World Crash When Rome Fell, or Did It Just Switch Directions? 10
Byzantine period (ad 500-ad 1453) 10
Islamic period (seventh century+) 10
Medieval period (500-1400) 10
High Renaissance (1495-1520) and Mannerism (1530-1580) 10
Baroque period (1600-1750) and Rococo period (1715-1760s) 11
In the Machine Age, Where Did Art Get Its Power? 11
Neoclassicism (1765-1830) 11
Romanticism (late 1700s-early 1800s) 11
The Modern World and the Shattered Mirror 12
Responding to modern pressures 12
Conceptualizing the craft 13
Expressing mixed-up times 13
Chapter 2: Why People Make Art and What It All Means 15
Focusing on the Artist's Purpose 15
Recording religion, ritual, and mythology 15
Promoting politics and propaganda 16
When I say jump: Art made for patrons 16
Following a personal vision 17
Detecting Design 17
Perceiving pattern 17
Rolling with the rhythm 17
Weighing the balance 17
Looking for contrast 18
Examining emphasis 18
Decoding Meaning 19
The ABCs of visual narrative 19
Sorting symbols 19
Chapter 3: The Major Artistic Movements 21
Distinguishing an Art Period from a Movement 21
Tracking Major 19th-Century Art Movements 22
Realism (1840s-1880s) 22
Impressionism (1869-late 1880s) 22
Post-Impressionism (1886-1892) 22
Moving Off the Rails in the 20th Century 23
Fauvism and Expressionism 23
Cubism, Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism 24
Abstract Expressionism (1946-1950s) 25
Pop Art (1960s) 25
Conceptual art, performance art, and feminist art (late 1960s-1970s) 25
Postmodernism (1970-) 25
Part 2: From Caves to Colosseum: Ancient Art 27
Chapter 4: Magical Hunters and Psychedelic Cave Artists 29
Cool Cave Art or Paleolithic Painting: Why Keep It a Secret? 30
Hunting on a wall 31
Psychedelic shamans with paintbrushes 31
Flirting with Fertility Goddesses 32
Dominoes for Druids: Stonehenge, Menhirs, and Neolithic Architecture 33
Living in the New Stone Age: Çatalhöyük, Göbekli Tepe, and Skara Brae 33
Cracking the mystery of the megaliths and menhirs 34
Chapter 5: Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art 37
Climbing toward the Clouds: Sumerian Architecture 38
Zigzagging to Heaven: Ziggurats 38
The Tower of Babel 39
The Eyes Have It: Scoping Out Sumerian Sculpture 39
Worshipping graven images 40
Stare-down with God: Statuettes from Abu Temple 40
Playing Puabi's Lyre 41
Unraveling the Standard of Ur 42
Stalking Stone Warriors: Akkadian Art 43
Stamped in Stone: Hammurabi's Code 43
Unlocking Assyrian Art 44
Babylon Has a Baby: New Babylon 45
Chapter 6: One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art 47
Ancient Egypt 101 48
Segmenting the Egyptian periods 48
Thanking the Nile 49
The Art of a Unified Egypt 49
Depicting the unification 49
Noting art as history in the Palette of Narmer 50
The Egyptian Style: Proportion and Orientation 51
Excavating Old Kingdom Architecture 52
Early mastabas and step pyramids 52
Turning to stone 53
Making the architecture great 53
Spending life preparing for death 54
The In-Between Period and Middle Kingdom Realism 55
New Kingdom Art 56
Hatshepsut: A female phenom 56
Akhenaten and Egyptian family values 56
Raiding King Tut's tomb treasures 58
Admiring the world's most beautiful dead woman's tomb 59
Decoding Books of the Dead 59
Too-big-to-forget sculpture 61
Chapter 7: Greek Art, the Olympian Ego, and the Inventors of the Modern World 63
Mingling with the Minoans: Snake Goddesses, Minotaurs, and Bull Jumpers 64
Greek Sculpture: Stark Symmetry to a Delicate Balance 66
Kouros to Kritios Boy 66
Golden Age sculptors: Myron, Polykleitos, and Phidias 68
Fourth-century sculpture 70
Figuring Out Greek Vase Painting 71
Cool stick figures: The geometric style 71
Black-figure and red-figure techniques 72
Rummaging through Ruins: Greek Architecture 73
Greece without Borders: Hellenism 76
Sculpting passion and struggle 76
Honoring the classical in a new world 77
Chapter 8: Etruscan and Roman Art: It's All Greek to Me! 79
The Mysterious Etruscans 79
Temple to tomb: Greek influence 79
Smiles in stone: The eternally happy Etruscans 80
Infusing Art with Roman Influence 80
Linking the territory that was Rome 82
Art as mirror: Roman realism and
Republican sculptural portraits 82
Progressing on to propaganda 83
Shirking idealism for authenticity 84
Realism in painting 85
Roman mosaics 86
Revealing Roman Architecture: A Marriage of Style and Engineering 87
Temple of Portunus 87
Maison Carrée 88
Roman aqueducts 88
The Colosseum 88
The Pantheon 90
Part 3: Art after the Fall of Rome: ad 500-ad 1760 93
Chapter 9: The Graven Image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art 95
The Rise and Fall of Constantinople 95
Christianizing Rome 96
After the fall: Divisions and schisms 96
Early Christian Art in the West 96
Rejecting paganism 97
Drawing on Roman art and culture 97
Byzantine Art Meets Imperial Splendor 98
Justinian and Early Byzantine architecture 98
Amazing mosaics: Puzzle art 100
San Vitale: Justinian and Theodora mosaics 101
The mosaics of St Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy (Middle Byzantine) 103
Icons and iconoclasm 103
Islamic Art: Architectural Pathways to God 106
The Mosque of Córdoba 107
The dazzling Alhambra 109
A temple of love: The Taj Mahal 110
Chapter 10: Mystics, Marauders, and Manuscripts: Medieval Art 113
Irish Light: Illuminated Manuscripts 114
A unique Christian mission 114
Browsing the Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels, and other manuscripts 114
Drolleries and the fun style 116
Charlemagne: King of His Own Renaissance 117
Weaving and Unweaving the Battle of Hastings: The Bayeux Tapestry 117
Providing a battle blueprint 117
Portraying everyday life in medieval England and France 118
Peddling political propaganda 119
Making border crossings 119
Romanesque Architecture: Churches That Squat 120
St Sernin 120
Durham Cathedral 121
Romanesque Sculpture 122
Nightmares in stone: Romanesque relief 123
Roman sculpture revival 123
Relics and Reliquaries: Miraculous Leftovers 123
Gothic Grandeur: Churches That Soar 125
Building a church-and-state alliance 125
Bigger and brighter 125
Making something new from old parts 126
Finishing touches and voilà! 127
Expanding the Gothic dream 127
Stained-Glass Storytelling 127
Gothic Sculpture 128
Italian Gothic 129
Gothic Painting: Cimabue, Duccio, and Giotto 130
Cimabue 130
Duccio 132
Giotto 133
Tracking the Lady and the Unicorn: The Mystical Tapestries of Cluny 134
Themes of love and desire? 134
Themes with religious connotation? 135
The questions remain 136
Chapter 11: Born-Again Culture: The Early and High Renaissance 137
The Early Renaissance in Central Italy 138
The Great Door Contest: Brunelleschi versus Ghiberti - And the winner is! 138
The Duomo of Florence 139
Vanishing points and perspective 140
Sandro Botticelli: A garden-variety Venus 144
Donatello: Putting statues back on their feet 145
The High Renaissance 146
Reviving self-respect 146
Elevating humanity in art 147
Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance man 147
Leonardo's techniques 147
Leonardo's greatest works 148
Michelangelo: The main man 150
Michelangelo's greatest works 152
Raphael: The prince of painters 153
Chapter 12: Venetian Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North 157
A Gondola Ride through the Venetian Renaissance 158
First stop, Bellini 158
A shortcut to Mantegna and Giorgione 160
Dürer's Venice vacations 161
Touring the 16th century with Titian 162
The Venice of Veronese 164
Tintoretto and Renaissance ego 165
La Tintoretta: Marietta Robusti 166
Palladio: The king of classicism 167
Late Gothic: Northern Naturalism 168
Jan van Eyck: The Late Gothic ace 168
Rogier van der Weyden: Front and center 169
Northern Exposure: The Renaissance in the Netherlands and Germany 172
Decoding Bosch 172
Deciphering the dark symbolism of Grünewald 174
Dining with Bruegel the Elder 175
Chapter 13: Art That'll...
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Kunstgeschichte |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 448 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781119868668 |
| ISBN-10: | 1119868661 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Wilder, Jesse Bryant |
| Auflage: | 2nd edition |
| Hersteller: | Wiley |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, amartine@wiley-vch.de |
| Maße: | 270 x 215 x 21 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jesse Bryant Wilder |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 19.04.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 1,226 kg |
Jesse Bryant Wilder is the founder, publisher, and editor of NEXUS, a series of interdisciplinary textbooks used in high schools around the country. He has written several textbooks on art and art history and was an art critic for The Plain Dealer and [...].
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Icons Used in This Book 2
Beyond the Book 2
Where to Go from Here 3
Part 1: Getting Started with Art History 5
Chapter 1: Art Tour through the Ages 7
Connecting Art Divisions and Culture 8
It's Ancient History, So Why Dig It Up? 8
Mesopotamian period (3500 bc-500 bc) and Egyptian period (3100 bc-332 bc) 9
Ancient Greek period (c 850 bc-323 bc) and Hellenistic period (323 bc-32 bc) 9
Roman period (300 bc-ad 476) 9
Did the Art World Crash When Rome Fell, or Did It Just Switch Directions? 10
Byzantine period (ad 500-ad 1453) 10
Islamic period (seventh century+) 10
Medieval period (500-1400) 10
High Renaissance (1495-1520) and Mannerism (1530-1580) 10
Baroque period (1600-1750) and Rococo period (1715-1760s) 11
In the Machine Age, Where Did Art Get Its Power? 11
Neoclassicism (1765-1830) 11
Romanticism (late 1700s-early 1800s) 11
The Modern World and the Shattered Mirror 12
Responding to modern pressures 12
Conceptualizing the craft 13
Expressing mixed-up times 13
Chapter 2: Why People Make Art and What It All Means 15
Focusing on the Artist's Purpose 15
Recording religion, ritual, and mythology 15
Promoting politics and propaganda 16
When I say jump: Art made for patrons 16
Following a personal vision 17
Detecting Design 17
Perceiving pattern 17
Rolling with the rhythm 17
Weighing the balance 17
Looking for contrast 18
Examining emphasis 18
Decoding Meaning 19
The ABCs of visual narrative 19
Sorting symbols 19
Chapter 3: The Major Artistic Movements 21
Distinguishing an Art Period from a Movement 21
Tracking Major 19th-Century Art Movements 22
Realism (1840s-1880s) 22
Impressionism (1869-late 1880s) 22
Post-Impressionism (1886-1892) 22
Moving Off the Rails in the 20th Century 23
Fauvism and Expressionism 23
Cubism, Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism 24
Abstract Expressionism (1946-1950s) 25
Pop Art (1960s) 25
Conceptual art, performance art, and feminist art (late 1960s-1970s) 25
Postmodernism (1970-) 25
Part 2: From Caves to Colosseum: Ancient Art 27
Chapter 4: Magical Hunters and Psychedelic Cave Artists 29
Cool Cave Art or Paleolithic Painting: Why Keep It a Secret? 30
Hunting on a wall 31
Psychedelic shamans with paintbrushes 31
Flirting with Fertility Goddesses 32
Dominoes for Druids: Stonehenge, Menhirs, and Neolithic Architecture 33
Living in the New Stone Age: Çatalhöyük, Göbekli Tepe, and Skara Brae 33
Cracking the mystery of the megaliths and menhirs 34
Chapter 5: Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art 37
Climbing toward the Clouds: Sumerian Architecture 38
Zigzagging to Heaven: Ziggurats 38
The Tower of Babel 39
The Eyes Have It: Scoping Out Sumerian Sculpture 39
Worshipping graven images 40
Stare-down with God: Statuettes from Abu Temple 40
Playing Puabi's Lyre 41
Unraveling the Standard of Ur 42
Stalking Stone Warriors: Akkadian Art 43
Stamped in Stone: Hammurabi's Code 43
Unlocking Assyrian Art 44
Babylon Has a Baby: New Babylon 45
Chapter 6: One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art 47
Ancient Egypt 101 48
Segmenting the Egyptian periods 48
Thanking the Nile 49
The Art of a Unified Egypt 49
Depicting the unification 49
Noting art as history in the Palette of Narmer 50
The Egyptian Style: Proportion and Orientation 51
Excavating Old Kingdom Architecture 52
Early mastabas and step pyramids 52
Turning to stone 53
Making the architecture great 53
Spending life preparing for death 54
The In-Between Period and Middle Kingdom Realism 55
New Kingdom Art 56
Hatshepsut: A female phenom 56
Akhenaten and Egyptian family values 56
Raiding King Tut's tomb treasures 58
Admiring the world's most beautiful dead woman's tomb 59
Decoding Books of the Dead 59
Too-big-to-forget sculpture 61
Chapter 7: Greek Art, the Olympian Ego, and the Inventors of the Modern World 63
Mingling with the Minoans: Snake Goddesses, Minotaurs, and Bull Jumpers 64
Greek Sculpture: Stark Symmetry to a Delicate Balance 66
Kouros to Kritios Boy 66
Golden Age sculptors: Myron, Polykleitos, and Phidias 68
Fourth-century sculpture 70
Figuring Out Greek Vase Painting 71
Cool stick figures: The geometric style 71
Black-figure and red-figure techniques 72
Rummaging through Ruins: Greek Architecture 73
Greece without Borders: Hellenism 76
Sculpting passion and struggle 76
Honoring the classical in a new world 77
Chapter 8: Etruscan and Roman Art: It's All Greek to Me! 79
The Mysterious Etruscans 79
Temple to tomb: Greek influence 79
Smiles in stone: The eternally happy Etruscans 80
Infusing Art with Roman Influence 80
Linking the territory that was Rome 82
Art as mirror: Roman realism and
Republican sculptural portraits 82
Progressing on to propaganda 83
Shirking idealism for authenticity 84
Realism in painting 85
Roman mosaics 86
Revealing Roman Architecture: A Marriage of Style and Engineering 87
Temple of Portunus 87
Maison Carrée 88
Roman aqueducts 88
The Colosseum 88
The Pantheon 90
Part 3: Art after the Fall of Rome: ad 500-ad 1760 93
Chapter 9: The Graven Image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art 95
The Rise and Fall of Constantinople 95
Christianizing Rome 96
After the fall: Divisions and schisms 96
Early Christian Art in the West 96
Rejecting paganism 97
Drawing on Roman art and culture 97
Byzantine Art Meets Imperial Splendor 98
Justinian and Early Byzantine architecture 98
Amazing mosaics: Puzzle art 100
San Vitale: Justinian and Theodora mosaics 101
The mosaics of St Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy (Middle Byzantine) 103
Icons and iconoclasm 103
Islamic Art: Architectural Pathways to God 106
The Mosque of Córdoba 107
The dazzling Alhambra 109
A temple of love: The Taj Mahal 110
Chapter 10: Mystics, Marauders, and Manuscripts: Medieval Art 113
Irish Light: Illuminated Manuscripts 114
A unique Christian mission 114
Browsing the Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels, and other manuscripts 114
Drolleries and the fun style 116
Charlemagne: King of His Own Renaissance 117
Weaving and Unweaving the Battle of Hastings: The Bayeux Tapestry 117
Providing a battle blueprint 117
Portraying everyday life in medieval England and France 118
Peddling political propaganda 119
Making border crossings 119
Romanesque Architecture: Churches That Squat 120
St Sernin 120
Durham Cathedral 121
Romanesque Sculpture 122
Nightmares in stone: Romanesque relief 123
Roman sculpture revival 123
Relics and Reliquaries: Miraculous Leftovers 123
Gothic Grandeur: Churches That Soar 125
Building a church-and-state alliance 125
Bigger and brighter 125
Making something new from old parts 126
Finishing touches and voilà! 127
Expanding the Gothic dream 127
Stained-Glass Storytelling 127
Gothic Sculpture 128
Italian Gothic 129
Gothic Painting: Cimabue, Duccio, and Giotto 130
Cimabue 130
Duccio 132
Giotto 133
Tracking the Lady and the Unicorn: The Mystical Tapestries of Cluny 134
Themes of love and desire? 134
Themes with religious connotation? 135
The questions remain 136
Chapter 11: Born-Again Culture: The Early and High Renaissance 137
The Early Renaissance in Central Italy 138
The Great Door Contest: Brunelleschi versus Ghiberti - And the winner is! 138
The Duomo of Florence 139
Vanishing points and perspective 140
Sandro Botticelli: A garden-variety Venus 144
Donatello: Putting statues back on their feet 145
The High Renaissance 146
Reviving self-respect 146
Elevating humanity in art 147
Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance man 147
Leonardo's techniques 147
Leonardo's greatest works 148
Michelangelo: The main man 150
Michelangelo's greatest works 152
Raphael: The prince of painters 153
Chapter 12: Venetian Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North 157
A Gondola Ride through the Venetian Renaissance 158
First stop, Bellini 158
A shortcut to Mantegna and Giorgione 160
Dürer's Venice vacations 161
Touring the 16th century with Titian 162
The Venice of Veronese 164
Tintoretto and Renaissance ego 165
La Tintoretta: Marietta Robusti 166
Palladio: The king of classicism 167
Late Gothic: Northern Naturalism 168
Jan van Eyck: The Late Gothic ace 168
Rogier van der Weyden: Front and center 169
Northern Exposure: The Renaissance in the Netherlands and Germany 172
Decoding Bosch 172
Deciphering the dark symbolism of Grünewald 174
Dining with Bruegel the Elder 175
Chapter 13: Art That'll...
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Kunstgeschichte |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 448 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781119868668 |
| ISBN-10: | 1119868661 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Wilder, Jesse Bryant |
| Auflage: | 2nd edition |
| Hersteller: | Wiley |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, amartine@wiley-vch.de |
| Maße: | 270 x 215 x 21 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jesse Bryant Wilder |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 19.04.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 1,226 kg |
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