Art and civilization / Edward Lucie-Smith

By: Lucie-Smith, Edward [author]
Language: English Publisher: New York : H.N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, [1993]Copyright date: c1993Description: 560 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0810919249 ; 9780810919242Subject(s): Arts -- History | Civilization, Western | ArtsDDC classification: 700.9
Contents:
pt. 1. Beginnings : European prehistory ; Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (focus: The tomb of Tutankhamun) -- pt. 2. Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, & Byzantium : Ancient Greece ; Ancient Rome (focus: The Laocoon) ; Judaism and Christianity ; Byzantium -- pt. 3. The Middle Ages : The early Middle Ages (focus: An Anglo-Saxon chieftain's regalia ; The Emperor Charlemagne ; Monastic life : life at Cluny) ; The late Middle Ages (focus: The Black Death) ; Transition to the modern world : Northern Europe -- pt. 4. The Renaissance : Humanism in Italy (focus: The early Medici) ; The Italian High Renaissance ; The Reformation ; Mannerism (focus: The royal icon) -- pt. 5. The Baroque : The Baroque in Italy ; Spain and Flanders (focus: The conquest of Mexico) ; French classicism (focus: Louis XIV and absolutism) ; Protestant Baroque (focus: Rembrandt's self-portraits). pt. 6. The eighteenth century : The rococo (focus: Madame de Pompadour) ; The middle class ; The Enlightenment (focus: Catherine the Great) ; The cult of nature and the cult of feeling -- pt. 7. Romanticism & the nineteenth century : The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire (focus: The British in India) ; Romanticism (focus: The legend of Paganini) ; Realism ; Symbolism (focus: The arts and crafts movement) -- pt. 8. The modern age : The birth of modernism (focus: African art and cubism) ; Armageddon and the interwar culture in Europe ; The rise of America (focus: The cinema) ; Europe 1940-70 ; 1970-90 (focus: The new Russian avant-garde).
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Includes glossary and index

Includes bibliographical references

pt. 1. Beginnings : European prehistory ; Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (focus: The tomb of Tutankhamun) --
pt. 2. Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, & Byzantium : Ancient Greece ; Ancient Rome (focus: The Laocoon) ; Judaism and Christianity ; Byzantium --
pt. 3. The Middle Ages : The early Middle Ages (focus: An Anglo-Saxon chieftain's regalia ; The Emperor Charlemagne ; Monastic life : life at Cluny) ; The late Middle Ages (focus: The Black Death) ; Transition to the modern world : Northern Europe --
pt. 4. The Renaissance : Humanism in Italy (focus: The early Medici) ; The Italian High Renaissance ; The Reformation ; Mannerism (focus: The royal icon) --
pt. 5. The Baroque : The Baroque in Italy ; Spain and Flanders (focus: The conquest of Mexico) ; French classicism (focus: Louis XIV and absolutism) ; Protestant Baroque (focus: Rembrandt's self-portraits). pt. 6. The eighteenth century : The rococo (focus: Madame de Pompadour) ; The middle class ; The Enlightenment (focus: Catherine the Great) ; The cult of nature and the cult of feeling --
pt. 7. Romanticism & the nineteenth century : The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire (focus: The British in India) ; Romanticism (focus: The legend of Paganini) ; Realism ; Symbolism (focus: The arts and crafts movement) --
pt. 8. The modern age : The birth of modernism (focus: African art and cubism) ; Armageddon and the interwar culture in Europe ; The rise of America (focus: The cinema) ; Europe 1940-70 ; 1970-90 (focus: The new Russian avant-garde).

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