Full Description
Filled with more than 8,000 paintings and sculpture from around the world, this is ultimate visual guide to the history of art. Featuring examples of the world's most celebrated, influential, and iconic artworks, this beautiful volume brings a gallery into your home where you can learn everything you need to know about art and artists.Linger over 8,000 stunning works from 700 artists and explore the major milestones, from cave paintings to modern masterpieces. Learn how to "read" composition, subject matter, technique and style. Gain a better understanding of key artworks through detailed close-up examinations that explore and explain the artist's intentions and techniques, while picture-packed gallery pages explore common artistic themes such as landscapes, nudes and animals.Created in collaboration with the biggest art library in the world, Bridgeman, this is a must-have for every family bookshelf.
Contents
11: Subjective and Composition2: Perspective and Viewpoint3: Light and Shade4: Media and Techniques5: Colour6: Brushstrokes and Texture2: Prehistory to 1400CE1: Prehistoric art2: Ancient Near East3: Ancient Egypt4: Civilisations of the Eat5: Ancient Greece6: Themes: Nudes7: The Etruscans and Ancient Rome8: Outside the Empires9: Early Christian and Byzantium10: Carolingian11: Ottonian12: Anglo-Saxon and Celtic art13: Early Islamic art14: South Asia15: Southeast Asia16: East Asia17: Central and South America18: Romanesque and Gothic art19: Early Italian art20: International Gothic art3: 15th and 16th centuries1: Italian Renaissance2: Themes: Myth and legend3: Northern Renaissance4: Themes: Landscape5: Mannerism6: China: Ming Dynasty7: Japanese art8: Central and South America4: 17th and 18th centuries1: Baroque2: Themes: Still Life3: Rococo4: Themes: Animals5: Neoclassicism6: English Watercolourists7: Colonial America8: China: Qing Dynasty9: Islamic art10: Hindu art5: 19th century1: Romanticism2: Themes: Love3: Realism4: Pre-Raphaelites5: Victorian art6: French academic art7: Japanese art8: Impressionism9: Neo-and Postimpressionism10: Themes: Children11: The Nabis12: Symbolism and Art Nouveau13: Scandinavian art14: End of the Century15: Sculpture16: African art17: Oceania6: Early 20th century:1: Fauvism2: German Expressionism3: Pre-war Vienne4: Cubism5: Futurism, Rayonism and Orphism6: Birth of Abstract art7: Themes: Work8: Early British Modernism9: Early US Modernism10: Naive Painting11: Ecole de Paris12: Constructivism13: Dada14: Surrealism15: Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)16: Bauhaus17: Avant-Garde18: Realism and Figurative Painting19: Mexican art7: 1945 onwards1: Abstract Expressionism2: Themes: War3: Post-war Europe4: Abstract Painting and Sculpture5: Minimal art6: Pop art7: Themes: Portraits8: Op art and Kinetic art9: Assemblage, Junk and Land art10: Conceptual art11: Figurative painting12: Superrealism13: Feminist art14: Neo-Expressionism and Graffiti art15: New Media16: Contemporary Sculpture17: Australian Aboriginal art18: Europe Today19: Africa Today20: Asia Today21: North America Today8: Glossary9: Index10: Acknowledgments
