Art the definitive visual guide
Provides a guided tour around 2,500 of the world's most influential painting and sculptures, from cave paintings to modern masterpieces.
| Other Authors: | King, Ross, 1962- (writer of foreword.) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, New York :
Dorling Kindersley,
2018.
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| Edition: | New edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Looking at art:
- Subject and composition
- Perspective and viewpoint
- Light and shade
- Media and Techniques
- Colour
- Brushstrokes and texture.
- Prehistory to 1400 CE:
- Prehistoric art
- Ancient Near East
- Ancient Egypt
- Civilizations of the East
- Ancient Greece
- Nudes
- Etruscans and Ancient Rome
- Outside the Empire
- Early Christian and Byzantine
- Carolingian
- Ottonian
- Viking art
- Anglo-Saxon and Celtic art
- Early Islamic art
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- East Asia
- Central and South America
- Romanesque and Gothic art
- Early Italian art
- International Gothic art.
- 15th and 16th centuries:
- Italian Renaissance
- Myth and legend
- Northern Renaissance
- Landscape
- Mannerism
- China: Ming Dynasty
- Japanese art
- Central and South America.
- 17th and 18th centuries:
- Baroque
- Still life
- Rococo
- Animals
- Neoclassicism
- English watercolourists
- Colonia America
- China: Qing dynasty
- Japanese art
- Islamic art
- Hindu art.
- 19th century:
- Romanticism
- Love
- Realism
- The Pre-Raphaelites
- Victorian art
- French academic art
- Japanese art
- Impressionism
- Neo- and Postimpressionism
- Children
- The Nabis
- Symbolism and Art Nouveau
- Scandanavian art
- End of the century
- Sculpture
- African art
- Oceania.
- Early 20th century:
- Fauvism
- German Expressionism
- Pre-war Vienna
- Cubism
- Futurism, Rayonism and Orphism
- Birth of Abstract art
- Work
- Early British Modernism
- Early US Moderism
- Naive Painting
- EĢcole de Paris
- Constructivism
- Dada
- Surrealism
- Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)
- Bauhaus
- Avant-Garde in Britain and the US
- Realism and Figurative Painting
- Mexican art.
- 1945 onwards:
- Abstract Expressionism
- War
- Postwar Europe
- Abstract painting and sculpture
- Minimal art
- Pop art
- Portraits
- Op art and Kinetic art
- Assemblage, Junk and Land art
- Conceptual art
- Figurative painting
- Superrealism
- Feminist art
- Neo-Expressionism and Graffiti art
- New media
- Contemporary sculpture
- Australian Aboriginal art
- Europe today
- Africa today
- Asia today
- North America today.