A new history of Western art : from antiquity to the present day /
"'A New History of Western Art' deconstructs and demystifies the long history of art in Europe to reveal how and why certain works of art become iconic and enduring in their appeal. How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white c...
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New Haven, CT : [Belgium] :
Yale ; Hannibal,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : From black square to kaleidoscope
- Chapter 1 : Art as product
- City-state rivalry
- Bronze and the lost-wax technique
- Mass production
- Marble
- Art for church and state
- Fresh dynamism
- Prints
- Printmaking techniques (I)
- Booming business
- Successful formulas : the seventeenth century
- Rubens's workshop
- Collecting
- Extravagance
- Plunder for the people
- Stifling academicism, liberating modernism
- A new clientele
- Printmaking techniques (II)
- Craft, connoisseurship and economics
- Chapter 2 : Art as idea
- Thinking about art in antiquity
- Mimemata
- Plato and mimesis
- Emotion and expression
- Pliny the Elder
- 'Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image'
- Old questions, new premises
- Florence
- Drawing
- The North : art as theory
- Iconoclastic controversy
- Giorgio Vasari
- Outside Italy
- France, Spain and Portugal
- The discovery of the beholder
- Noble simplicity and quiet grandeur
- Sublimation
- Art as theory
- Chapter 3 : Art(s) and science
- Ideal proportions
- Artes
- Fresco
- Rethinking
- Perspective
- Tempera and oil paint
- Van Eyck and oil paint
- Panel or canvas?
- Broader horizons
- New knowledge, different challenges
- The discovery of reason and emotion
- Pathos in a world of reason
- Clarity
- Euphoria to despair
- Photography : the ultimate marriage of art and science
- Art, science and poetry rethought
- Art as catalyst of emotion and knowledge
- Chapter 4 : Art, power and faith
- From Pericles to Alexander the Great
- Rome as a world power
- Searching for new balances
- Different power relations, different art
- Experimental art in a century of power struggles
- Show of power
- The call of Rome
- The heavens open
- Fragile ideals
- Revolutionary urge
- Freedom
- Salon des Refusés
- Art and ideology
- Chapter 5 : Form and content
- Style and meaning
- The problem of 'style'
- Meaning
- Antiquity
- Rome
- Early Middle Ages
- Refinement
- Rinascimento en Ars nova
- The sixteenth century : strengthening ties
- High Renaissance
- Venice
- Germany and the Low Countries
- Big ambitions
- Baroque and Classicism
- The Dutch Republic
- Rococo : watchword 'excess'
- Back to the source
- Romanticism and Realism
- Impressionism and the revolution in art
- Isms
- Epilogue : Art as interaction.
