| Description |
736 p. : col ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
INTRODUCTION: -- PAINTING BEFORE GIOTTO -- The First Paintings -- The Ancient World -- Early Christian and Medieval Art -- GOTHIC PAINTING -- Early Gothic Art -- International Gothic Style -- Innovation in the North -- Late Gothic Painting -- THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE -- The Early Renaissance -- Renaissance Venice -- The High Renaissance -- The Italian Mannerist Period -- THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE -- Durer and German Portraiture -- Northern Mannerism -- Northern Landscape Tradition -- BAROQUE AND RoCOCO -- Italy: A Catholic Vision -- Flemish Baroque -- Spanish Baroque -- A Dutch Protestant Vision -- France: A Return to Classicism -- Rococo -- NEOCLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM -- The British School -- Goya -- The Neoclassical School -- The Great French Romantics -- Romantic Landscapes -- THE AGE OF IMPRESSIONISM -- The Pre-Raphaelites -- Realism in France -- The Influence of Manet and Degas -- The Great Impressionists -- American Vision -- PoST-IMPRESSIONISM -- Post-Impressionist Artists -- The Influence of Symbolism -- The Nabis -- THE 20TH CENTURY -- Fauvism -- Matisse, Master of Color -- Expressionism -- Artistic Emigres -- Picasso and Cubism -- The Age of Machinery -- Toward Abstraction -- Paul Klee -- Pure Abstraction -- Art of the Fantastic -- Pre-War American Painting -- Abstract Expressionism -- American Colorists -- Minimalism -- Pop Art -- European Figurative Painting -- Epilogue |
| Subject |
Painting, European -- History
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Painting, American -- History
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| Alt Author |
Wright, Patricia, 1944-
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| ISBN |
0751311898 |
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