| Description |
757 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography. |
| Contents |
Prehistoric and modern primitives -- Ancient Egypt -- Ancient Mesopotamis and Persia -- Crete and Mycenae -- The coming of Greek art -- From Hellenistic to Roman World Empire -- The art of India -- China and Japan -- Art and culture of the early Americas -- Early Christian and Byzantine art -- The early middle ages in the west -- Romanesque Europe -- Islamic civilization -- From castle to commune: the rise of gothic art -- The decline of feudalism: fifteenth-century flanders -- The rise of humanism: fifteenth-century Italy -- The rise of humanism: early-sixteenth-century Italy / The reformation -- The Baroque age -- The protestant Baroque -- From absolutism to free thought: England and the United States in the eighteenth century -- From absolutism to free thought: France, Italy, and German in the eighteenth century -- Art in the modern world: The nineteenth century -- Art in the modern world: the United States in the nineteenth century -- Art in the modern world: twentieth-century painting and sculpture -- Art in the modern world: twentieth-century architecture. |
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Art -- History.
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Art. |
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History. |
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Art and society.
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Art and society. |
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