Jesse Bryant Wilder - Art History For Dummies

8 Part 4: The Industrial Revolution Revs Up Art’s Evolution: 1760–1900 Chapter 16: All Roads Lead Back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical Art When Philosophers and Artists Join Forces Angelica Kauffman: The Queen of Neoclassicism Jacques-Louis David: The King of Neoclassicism Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: The Prince of Neoclassical Portraiture Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun: Portraitist of the Queen and Fashion Setter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: From Ideal to Real and Royals to Revolutionaries Canova and Houdon: Greek Grace and Neoclassical Sculpture Chapter 17: Romanticism: Reaching Within and Acting Out Kissing Isn’t Romantic, but Having a Heart Is Far Out with William Blake and Henry Fuseli: Personal Mythologies Inside Out: Caspar David Friedrich The Revolutionary French Romantics: Gericault and Delacroix Francisco Goya and the Grotesque J. M. W. Turner Sets the Skies on Fire Chapter 18: What You See Is What You Get: Realism Rebels with a Cause Courbet and Daumier: Painting Peasants and Urban Blight The Barbizon School and the Great Outdoors Rosa Bonheur: From a Horse Fair to Buffalo Bill Keeping It Real in America The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Medieval Visions and Painting Literature The Ten: America’s First Art Movement Ashcan Artists: Capturing the Grit of Urban Life Chapter 19: First Impressions: Impressionism M & M: Manet and Monet Pretty Women and Painted Ladies: Renoir and Degas Cassatt, Morisot, and Other Female Impressionists American Impressionism Chapter 20: Making Their Own Impression: The Post-Impressionists You’ve Got a Point: Pointillism, Georges-Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac Red-Light Art: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Tracking the “Noble Savage”: Paul Gauguin Painting Energy: Vincent van Gogh Love Cast in Stone: Rodin and Claudel The Mask behind the Face: James Ensor The Hills Are Alive with Geometry: Paul Cézanne Art Nouveau: Curves, Swirls, and Asymmetry Fairy-Tale Fancies and the Sandcastle Cathedral of Barcelona: Antoni Gaudí

9 Part 5: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art Chapter 21: From Fauvism to Expressionism Fauvism: Colors Fighting like Animals German Expressionism: Form Based on Feeling Austrian Expressionism: From Dream to Nightmare Chapter 22: Cubist Puzzles and Finding the Fast Lane with the Futurists Cubism: All Views At Once Futurism: Art That Broke the Speed Limit Precisionism: Geometry as Art The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age Chapter 23: Nonobjective Art: Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism Suprematism: Kazimir Malevich’s Reinvention of Space Constructivism: Showing Off Your Skeleton Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl Movement Dada Turns the World on Its Head Surrealism and Disjointed Dreams My House Is a Machine: Modernist Architecture Abstract Expressionism: Fireworks on Canvas Chapter 24: Anything-Goes Art: Fab Fifties and Psychedelic Sixties Artsy Cartoons: Pop Art Fantastic Realism Louise Nevelson: Picking up the Trash and Assemblage Louise Bourgeois: Sexualized sculpture Less-Is-More Art: Rothko, Newman, Stella, Frankenthaler, and Others Photorealism Performance Art and Installations Chapter 25: Photography: From Science to Art The Birth of Photography Transitioning from Science to Art Alfred Stieglitz: Reliving the Moment Henri Cartier-Bresson’s uncanny eye Group f/64: Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Ansel Adams Dorothea Lange: Depression to Dust Bowl Margaret Bourke-White: From Industrial Beauty to Political Statements Fast-Forward: The Next Generation Chapter 26: The New World: Postmodern Art From Modern Pyramids to Titanium Twists: Postmodern Architecture Making It or Faking It? Postmodern Photography and Painting Installation Art and Earth Art Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies and Living, Genetic Art

10 Part 6: The Part of Tens Chapter 27: Ten Must-See Art Museums Chapter 28: Ten Great Books by Ten Great Artists

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1 Chapter 1 TABLE 1-1: Art Movements of the 20 thCentury

2 Chapter 6 TABLE 6-1 Ancient Egyptian Historical Periods

1 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: The superbly rendered cave paintings of prehistoric animals in Alta...

2 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: a) The statuette on the left, carved around 2700 BC, is one of twel...FIGURE 5-2: The design on the front of Puabi’s lyre illustrates four ancient fa...FIGURE 5-3: The Standard of Ur, measuring 8½ inches high by 19½ inches long, is...FIGURE 5-4: This is the peace side of the Standard of Ur. FIGURE 5-5: King Ashurnasirpal II Killing Lions captures the tense action of a ...

3 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: The Palette of Narmer chronicles a victory of King Narmer over his ...FIGURE 6-2: Ka statues, like those of Prince Rahotep and his wife, had to be re...FIGURE 6-3: Akhenaten’s family portrait brings the royal family down to earth w...FIGURE 6-4: Queen Nefertiti’s bust denotes both the real and the ideal. FIGURE 6-5: The funerary mask of Tutankhamun is made of gold inlaid with semipr...FIGURE 6-6: Detail from Nefertari’s tomb, located in the Valley of the Queens. FIGURE 6-7: This narrative scene from the Book of the Dead illustrates the weig...

4 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: The Minoans didn’t run with the bulls like they do in Pamplona; the...FIGURE 7-2: Marble Kouros statue from Attica (Athens and surrounding area). FIGURE 7-3: Although still at attention like a frozen soldier, this later kouro ...FIGURE 7-4: Greek statues begin to get comfortable around 480 BC. Kritios Boy i...FIGURE 7-5: This is a marble Roman copy of Myron’s original bronze Discobolus. FIGURE 7-6: This Roman copy of Polykleitos’s Doryphoros is at ease and tense at...FIGURE 7-7: Praxiteles had a knack for giving statues a soft, sensual look, as ...FIGURE 7-8: The Dipylon krater, Terracotta illustrates funerary scenes and was ...FIGURE 7-9: The goddess Athena watches Hercules tangle with the Nemean Lion (th...FIGURE 7-10: The red-figure Medea krater illustrates the climax of Euripides’ t...FIGURE 7-11: The Greeks invented the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders.FIGURE 7-12: The Parthenon, a Doric temple, is the architectural high point of ...FIGURE 7-13: Nike of Samothrace and Laocoön and His Sons radiate the energ...FIGURE 7-14: Venus de Milo is one of the most celebrated Hellenistic statues.

5 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: Augustus of Primaporta is the most copied statue of Augustus Caesar...FIGURE 8-2: Trajan’s Column recounts the two-part Dacian War fought at the begi...FIGURE 8-3: The Marriage of Venus and Mars illustrates Roman artists’ use of in...FIGURE 8-4: The Flora fresco, from ancient Stabiae, was buried for nearly 1,700...FIGURE 8-5: The Hylas mosaic illustrates the myth of Hylas, Hercules’s lover, w...FIGURE 8-6: The Maison Carrée — erected around 19 BC to 16 BC and dedicated to ...FIGURE 8-7: The Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheater (named after Vespasian, whose...FIGURE 8-8: The Pantheon, built between AD 125 and AD 128, is Rome’s supreme ar...

6 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: Christ Enthroned and the Apostles in the Heavenly Jerusalem shows t...FIGURE 9-2: The interior of Hagia Sophia is celebrated for its mystical lightin...FIGURE 9-3: The San Vitale mosaic of Empress Theodora and her attendants (on th...FIGURE 9-4: Andrei Rublev’s The Old Testament Trinity ( Three Angels Visiting Ab ...FIGURE 9-5: The Icon Shroud of the Assumption/Dormition of St. Mary icon at the...FIGURE 9-6: The tunnels of arches in the Great Mosque of Córdoba pull visitors ...FIGURE 9-7: The magnificent mihrab dome of the Mosque of Córdoba was built in 9...FIGURE 9-8: The elegant, filigree-walled pavilion of the Alhambra’s Court of th...FIGURE 9-9: Shah Jahan’s Taj Mahal, built to honor his deceased wife Mumtaz Mah...