| Description |
xv, 383 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The earth as Art. Mounds and henges ; Modern earthworks -- Representations of the gods. Antiquity ; Christian Europe ; Hindu India ; Buddhist India and East Asia ; Aztec Mexico -- The art of rulers. The Middle East ; Africa ; The West ; Southeast Asia ; Monuments to power -- Pilgrimage. Greek shines of antiquity ; Christian pilgrimage in the Middle Ages ; Islamic pilgrimage -- Patrons and the role of the artists. Benin ; Chinese painting ; The Italian Renaissance ; New Ireland ; Two patrons : Akbar and Louis XIV -- Art and collecting. Commissioning illuminated manuscripts ; Netherlandish collections ; The grand tour ; The American nouveau riche ; Spoils of war ; Cross-influence in collecting : Japan and France ; Modern collections -- Art and revolution in the modern world. The French Revolution ; The American revolution ; Ongoing revolution : France in the nineteenth century ; Mexico ; Russia ; China -- Utopia and dystopia. French art after Impressionism ; Paris in the early twentieth century ; German Expressionism ; Italian Futurism ; The United States : color and the future ; Dystopian visions in Germany after World War I ; Counterpoint : Utopian visions in Germany after World War I -- Art, the spirit world, and the inner mind. Aboriginal art ; Yoruban art ; Native American art ; Sigmund Freud and Expressionism ; World War I and Dada ; Surrealism ; Degenerate art ; Postwar abstraction ; European postwar art and the mind ; Pop art : rejecting the inner mind -- Identity in contemporary art. Early feminism ; The Second Wave of feminist art ; Black identity ; Postcolonial identity in Asia, Africa, and the West Indies ; Multicultural art in the United States -- Elements and approaches to art history. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Harry I. Naar, Professor Emeritus |
| Subject |
Art -- History.
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Art. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Eskilson, Stephen, 1964-
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| ISBN |
0072829486 |
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9780072829488 |
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