Mounds and Henges
Neolithic Britain
Japan
North America
Celestial Orientation in Mesoamerica
The Ziggurat
Modern Earthworks
Excerpt from Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1819
Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics
2. Representations of the Gods
Antiquity
Gods and Myths
Greece
Herodotus and the Ideal Citizen
Marble versus Bronze
Christian Europe
Fresco versus Mosaic
Hindu India
Siva and Ganesha
Buddhist India and East Asia
The Buddha
Aztec Mexico
Under the Great Temple in Mexico City
Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics
3. The Art of Rulers
The Middle East
Mesopotamia
Persia
Africa
Ancient Egypt
The Most Famous Tomb in the World
Sub-Saharan Africa
Benin
Asante
Kuba
The West
Roman and Byzantine Empires
Arches
Equestrian Statues
Ottoman Tributes to Justinian's Achievement
Divine Approval
Western Europe in the Middle Ages
Southeast Asia
Hawaii
Monuments to Power
Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics
4. Pilgrimage
Greek Shrines of Antiquity
The Persian War
Christian Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages
The Holy Land
Taking Ship
Europe
Pagan Origins for Christian Symbols
Romanesque Churches
Canterbury
The Gothic Style
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Modern Versions of Medieval Piety
Islamic Pilgrimage
Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics
5. Patrons and the Role of the Artist
Benin
Chinese Painting
Confucius
Northern Song
Chinese Painting Formats
Writing on Art (Literally)
Southern Song
The Ming Dynasty: Revival and Breakdown of Tradition
The Italian Renaissance
The Greco-Roman Classical Tradition
Renaissance Florence
Intellectual Trends: Humanism and Neo-Platonism
Vitruvius
Alberti and Fifteenth-Century Painting
Florence's Two Davids
Leonardo da Vinci
Disputes over the Restoration of Leonardo's Last Supper
Rome: Julius II and Leo X
Titian in Venice
Giorgio Vasari and Grand Duke Cosimo I
New Ireland
Two Patrons: Akbar and Louis XIV
Akbar
Louis XIV
Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics
6. Art and Collecting
Commissioning Illuminated Manuscripts
Netherlandish Collections
The Grand Tour
Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
The American Nouveau-Riche
American Loot and the Invention of the Ethnographic Museum
Spoils of War
The First National Museum
Hiding the Louvre
African Artifacts and Souvenirs
Cross-influences in collecting: Japan and France
Emile Zola
Modern Collections
Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics
7. Art and Revolution in the Modern World (1760–1960)
The French Revolution
The Social Contract
Spain: Francisco de Goya
England and the Grand Manner
The American Revolution
Ongoing Revolution: France in the Nineteenth Century
Political Strife in the 1830s
The Fall of the French Monarchy, 1848
Renewal and Destruction, 1851-74
The Industrial Revolution in France and the Rise of the Poster
Mexico
Russia
China
Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics
8. Utopia and Dystopia
French Art after Impressionism
Two Visionary Thinkers: Charles Darwin and Karl Marx
Paris in the Early Twentieth Century
Paris: Capital of the Art World
The Universal Exposition (1900) and the Trocadéro Museum in Paris
German Expressionism
Le Corbusier and the Classical Future
Italian Futurism
The United States: Color and the Future
Abstraction
Dystopian Visions in Germany after World War I
Fritz Lang
Counterpoint: Utopian Visions in Germany After World War I
Women at the Bauhaus
Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics
9. Art, the Spirit World and the Inner Mind
Aboriginal Art
Yoruban Art
Frobenius and the Ife Heads
Native American Art
Sigmund Freud and Expressionism
World War I and Dada
Surrealism
Shell Shock
Breton and Surrealism in Mexico
Degenerate Art
Postwar Abstraction
The Irascibles
European Postwar Art and the Mind
Pop Art: Rejecting the Inner Mind
Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics
10. Identity in Contemporary Art
Early Feminism
Sex versus Gender
Performance Art
Feminist Art History
The Second Wave of Feminist Art
Conceptual Art
Male Superstars of the 1980s
Black Identity
African-American Quilts
African-American Art History
Postcolonial Identity in Asian, Africa and the West Indies
Indian and Pakistani Artists
Nigerian and South African Artists
West Indian Artists
Multicultural Art in the United States
1990: Culture Wars in the USA
Native American Artifacts
Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics
Elements and Approaches to Art History
Maps
Glossary
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index
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