Table of Contents
(NOTE: Each chapter contains Looking Forward, Closer Look, Elements of Architecture, Technique Boxes, Map, Timeline, and Looking Back features).
1. Art Before the Written Word.
Upper Paleolithic Art
Art in the Neolithic Period Early
Neolithic Communities Architecture
The Meaning(s) of Prehistoric Paintings
Megalithic Architecture Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe
Early Art Outside Europe
2. The Art of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom
Egypt
The Middle Kingdom
The New Kingdom
The Late Period
3. Early Asian Art Looking Forward.
The Indian Subcontinent
Gandhara and Mathura Styles
Gupta Period
Southeast Asia
Indonesia
China
Korea
Japan
4. Art of Greece and the Aegean World.
The Cycladic Islands
Minoan Crete
Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) Civilization
The Emergence of Greek Civilization
The Geometric Style The Archaic Period
The Early Classical Or Transitional Period
The "Golden Age" of Art
Late Classical Art of The Fourth Century
5. The Spread of Greek Art and Culture.
The Hellenistic Greeks
The Neo-Babylonians
The Persians
The Etruscans
6. Roman Art.
The Republican Period
The Age of Augustus
The Roman House and Its Decoration
The Empire
Imperial Art and Architecture
Portraits in Sculpture and Painting
The Late Empire
7. Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art.
Jewish Art
Early Christianity
Early Byzantine Art
Icons and Iconoclasm
Later Byzantine Art
8. Islamic Art.
Art During the Early Caliphates
Later Islamic Art
The Mughal Empire
The Ottoman Empire
9. Later Asian Art.
The South Asian Subcontinent
Rajput Painting
Cambodia
China
Japan
Pictures of the Floating World
10. Early Medieval and Romanesque Art.
Early Medieval Art in the British Isles and Scandinavia Carolingian Art
The Carolingian Basilica and Timber Architecture
The Monastery Painting in Christian Spain
The Ottonian Period
The Romanesque Period Architecture Architectural Decoration: Sculpture and Painting The Cloister Crafts
11. Gothic Art.
Gothic Art in France
Secular Art
Gothic Art in England
Gothic Art in the Germanic Lands
Gothic Art in Italy
Sculpture
Italian Panel and Mural Painting
12. Early Renaissance Art.
Northern Renaissance Art
Second Generation Painters
The Graphic Arts
Renaissance Art in Italy
Architecture
Sculpture
Painting
13. Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation.
Italian Art
Venice and the Veneto
Mannerism
Italy
France
Mannerist Architecture
German and English Art
The Reformation and the Arts
Netherlandish and Spanish Art
14. Art for the Counter-Reformation Church: Italy Art in the Habsburg Empire.
Spain
Flanders
Protestant England
The Protestant Netherlands
Art for the State: France
The Rococo Style
Art and Science
15. Art of the Americas.
Mesoamerica
The Olmecs
The Maya
Teotihuacan
The Aztecs
Central America
South America: The Central Andes The Moche Culture The Inca Empire
The Aftermath of the Spanish Conquest
North America
The Southeast
The Southwest
The Eastern Woodlands and the Great Plains
The Northwest Coast
16. African Art.
African Art in the Modern Era: Living Traditions and New Trends
Art and the Spirit World
Art and Power
The Masquerade
17. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism.
Neoclassicism and Its Heritage
Portrait Painting
Moralized Genre Painting
Neoclassical Architecture in England and North America
Neoclassical Painting in France
Romanticism
Romantic Landscape Painting
Early Photography
Naturalism and Realism in Europe
Painting in the United States
18. Later Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States.
Architecture
Academic Art
Reactions Against the Academy
Art Nouveau
Art in the United States
Impressionism
Later Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Late-Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture
19. Modern Art: Europe and North America in the Early Twentieth Century.
Early Modern Art in Europe
Expressionist Movements
Les Fauves
Die Brücke
Der Blaue Reiter
Cubism
Responses To Cubism
Orphism
Futurism
Suprematism
Dada
Modern Art Comes to the United States
Art Between the Wars
Europe
Constructivism De Stijl Surrealism Sculpture
Art in North America
The United States
The Harlem Renaissance
Mexico
Canada
Architecture
Europe
The Bauhaus
20. Art Since 1945.
The "Mainstream" Crosses the Atlantic
Assemblage
Pop Art
Minimalism/Post-Minimalism and Op Art
Conceptual and Performance Art
Earthworks and Site-Specific Art
Feminist Art
Late Modernism/Postmodernism
Neo-Expressionism
The Persistence of Modernism
Later Art with Social Impact
Installation and Electronic Art
American Craft Art
Architecture
Public Memory and Art: The Memorial
