| Description |
xiii, 922 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
The ancient world -- The birth of art -- The ancient Near East -- The art of Egypt -- The art of the Aegean -- The art of Greece -- Etruscan and Roman art -- Early Christian, Byzantine -- The Middle Ages -- Early medieval art -- Romanesque art -- Gothic art -- The art of India -- The art of China -- The art of Japan -- The Native arts of the Americas, Africa, and the South Pacific -- The Renaissance and the Baroque and Rococo -- Fifteenth-century Italian art -- Sixteenth-century Italian art -- The Renaissance outside of Italy -- Baroque art -- The eighteenth century: Rococo and the rise of romanticism -- The Modern world -- The nineteenth century: pluralism of style -- The twentieth century |
| Summary |
The book is a balanced historical introduction to the art of the whole world. It is divided into five parts: the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the non-European world, the Renaissance and the Baroque and Rococo, and the modern world |
| Analysis |
Visual arts to 1978 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 897-903) and index |
| Subject |
Art -- History.
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Art -- History.
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Art -- history.
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| Author |
De la Croix, Horst.
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Tansey, Richard G.
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| LC no. |
79065963 |
| ISBN |
0155037587 |
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9780155037588 |
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