Published in association with the Bridgeman Art Library. Previously published in 2008. Includes index.
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.
Summary:
Provides a guided tour around 2,500 of the world's most influential painting and sculptures, from cave paintings to modern masterpieces.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.