For two-semester courses in Art History, Global Art History, and for Introductory Art courses taught from a historical perspective.
ART HISTORY provides students with the most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey text on the market. These hallmarks make ART HISTORYthe choice for instructors who seek to actively engage their students in the study of art.
This new edition of ART HISTORY is the result of a happy and productive collaboration between two scholar-teachers (Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren) who share a common vision that survey courses on the history of art should be filled with as much enjoyment as erudition, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts.
Like its predecessors, this new edition seeks to balance formal and iconographic analysis with contextual art history in order to craft interpretations that will engage a diverse student population. Throughout the text, the visual arts are treated as part of a larger world, in which geography, politics, religion, economics, philosophy, social life, and the other fine arts are related components of a vibrant and cultural landscape.
Please visit for more information and to view a video from author, Marilyn Stokstad, to see a chapter from the book and an online demo of the Prentice Hall Digital Art Library.
Show moreFor two-semester courses in Art History, Global Art History, and for Introductory Art courses taught from a historical perspective.
ART HISTORY provides students with the most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey text on the market. These hallmarks make ART HISTORYthe choice for instructors who seek to actively engage their students in the study of art.
This new edition of ART HISTORY is the result of a happy and productive collaboration between two scholar-teachers (Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren) who share a common vision that survey courses on the history of art should be filled with as much enjoyment as erudition, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts.
Like its predecessors, this new edition seeks to balance formal and iconographic analysis with contextual art history in order to craft interpretations that will engage a diverse student population. Throughout the text, the visual arts are treated as part of a larger world, in which geography, politics, religion, economics, philosophy, social life, and the other fine arts are related components of a vibrant and cultural landscape.
Please visit for more information and to view a video from author, Marilyn Stokstad, to see a chapter from the book and an online demo of the Prentice Hall Digital Art Library.
Show moreBRIEF CONTENTS
CONTENTS vii
PREFACE xii
WHAT’S NEW xiv
FACULTY AND STUDENT RESOURCES FOR ART HISTORY xviii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND GRATITUDE xix
USE NOTES xxi
STARTER KIT xxii
INTRODUCTION xxvi
Chapter 1 PREHISTORIC ART 1
Chapter 2 ART OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST 27
Chapter 3 ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT 49
Chapter 4 ART OF THE ANCIENT AEGEAN 81
Chapter 5 ART OF ANCIENT GREECE 101
Chapter 6 ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN ART 159
Chapter 7 JEWISH, EARLY CHRISTIAN, AND BYZANTINE ART 217
Chapter 8 ISLAMIC ART 261
Chapter 9 ART OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA BEFORE 1200 291
Chapter 10 CHINESE AND KOREAN ART BEFORE 1279 325
Chapter 11 JAPANESE ART BEFORE 1333 355
Chapter 12 ART OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE 1300 377
Chapter 13 EARLY AFRICAN ART 403
Chapter 14 EARLY MEDIEVAL ART IN EUROPE 423
Chapter 15 ROMANESQUE ART 453
Chapter 16 GOTHIC ART OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES 491
Chapter 17 FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE 529
Chapter 18 FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE 561
Chapter 19 RENAISSANCE ART IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY ITALY 593
Chapter 20 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN ITALY 631
Chapter 21 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE IBERIAN PENINSULA 677
Chapter 22 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE 711
Chapter 23 ART OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA AFTER 1200 771
Chapter 24 CHINESE AND KOREAN ART AFTER 1279 791
Chapter 25 JAPANESE ART AFTER 1333 813
Chapter 26 ART OF THE AMERICAS AFTER 1300 835
Chapter 27 ART OF PACIFIC CULTURES 859
Chapter 28 ART OF AFRICA IN THE MODERN ERA 879
Chapter 29 EIGHTEENTH- AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY ART IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 903
Chapter 30 MID- TO LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES 961
Chapter 31 MODERN ART IN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS, 1900—1950 1017
Chapter 32 THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE SINCE 1950 1083
CONTEMPORARY WORLD MAP 1136
GLOSSARY 1137
BIBLIOGRAPHY 1146
CREDITS 1158
INDEX 1163
DETAILED CONTENTS
CONTENTS vii
PREFACE xiv
WHAT’S NEW xv
FACULTY AND STUDENT RESOURCES FOR ART HISTORY xviii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND GRATITUDE xix
USE NOTES xxi
STARTER KIT xxii
INTRODUCTION xxvi
CHAPTER 1 PREHISTORIC ART 1
THE STONE AGE 2
THE PALEOLITHIC PERIOD 2
Shelter or Architecture? 4
Artifacts or Works of Art? 5
Cave Painting 8
Cave Sculptures 12
THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD 13
Architecture 13
Sculpture and Ceramics 20
NEW METALLURGY, ENDURING STONE 22
The Bronze Age 22
Rock Carvings 23
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ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Power of Naming 6
Intentional House Burning 20
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Prehistoric Woman and Man 24
A CLOSER LOOK
A House in Çatalhöyük 15
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Early Construction Methods 16
TECHNIQUE
Prehistoric Wall Painting 10
Pottery and Ceramics 22
RECOVERING THE PAST
How Early Art is Dated 12
CHAPTER 2 ART OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST 27
THE FERTILE CRESCENT AND MESOPOTAMIA 28
Sumer 28
Akkad 33
Ur and Lagash 36
Babylon 37
THE HITTITES OF ANATOLIA 37
ASSYRIA 39
Kalhu (Nimrud) 39
Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad) 41
Nineveh (Kuyunjik) 43
NEO-BABYLONIA 43
PERSIA 44
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ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Art as Spoils of War—Protection or Theft? 32
The Code of Hammurabi 38
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
A Lyre from a Royal Tomb in Ur 34
A CLOSER LOOK
Enemies Crossing the Euphrates to Escape Assyrian Archers 41
TECHNIQUE
Cuneiform Writing 30
Textiles 43
CHAPTER 3 ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT 49
THE GIFT OF THE NILE 50
EARLY DYNASTIC EGYPT, C. 2950–2575 BCE 50
The God-Kings 50
Artistic Conventions 51
Funerary Architecture 53
THE OLD KINGDOM, C. 2575–2150 BCE 55
The Great Pyramids at Giza 55
Sculpture 59
Pictorial Relief in Tombs 61
THE MIDDLE KINGDOM, C. 1975–C. 1640 BCE 62
Portraits of Senusret III 62
Rock-Cut Tombs 62
Funerary Stelae 63
Town Planning 64
THE NEW KINGDOM, C. 1539–1075 BCE 64
The Great Temple Complexes 65
Hatshepsut 67
The Tomb of Ramose 69
Akhenaten and the Art of the Amarna Period 70
The Return to Tradition: Tutankhamun and Ramses II 72
The Books of the Dead 76
THE THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, C. 1075–715 BCE 78
LATE EGYPTIAN ART, C. 715–332 BCE 79
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ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Egyptian Symbols 51
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel 74
A CLOSER LOOK
The Palette of Narmer 52
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Mastaba to Pyramid 55
TECHNIQUE
Preserving The Dead 56
Egyptian Pictorial Relief 65
Glassmaking 73
RECOVERING THE PAST
The Rosetta Stone 77
CHAPTER 4 ART OF THE ANCIENT AEGEAN 81
THE BRONZE AGE IN THE AEGEAN 82
THE CYCLADIC ISLANDS 82
THE MINOAN CIVILIZATION ON CRETE 84
The “Old Palace” Period, c. 1900–1700 BCE 84
The “New Palace” Period, c. 1700–1450 BCE 86
THE MYCENAEAN (HELLADIC) CULTURE 92
Helladic Architecture 92
Mycenaean Tombs 95
Ceramic Arts 99
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THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Lion Gate 96
A CLOSER LOOK
The “Flotilla Fresco” from Akrotiri 92
TECHNIQUE
Aegean Metalwork 87
RECOVERING THE PAST
Pioneers of Aegean Archaeology 91
The “Mask of Agamemnon” 95
CHAPTER 5 ART OF ANCIENT GREECE 101
THE EMERGENCE OF GREEK CIVILIZATION 102
Historical Background 102
Religious Beliefs and Sacred Places 102
GREEK ART C. 900–C. 600 BCE 102
The Geometric Period 102
The Orientalizing Period 105
THE ARCHAIC PERIOD, C. 600–480 BCE 107
The Sanctuary at Delphi 107
Temples 108
Free-standing Sculpture 114
Painted Pots 117
THE EARLY CLASSICAL PERIOD, C. 480–450 BCE 120
Marble Sculpture 121
Bronze Sculpture 124
Ceramic Painting 127
THE HIGH CLASSICAL PERIOD, C. 450–400 BCE 128
The Acropolis 129
The Parthenon 130
The Propylaia and the Erechtheion 136
The Temple of Athena Nike 137
The Athenian Agora 138
City Plans 138
Stele Sculpture 140
Painting 141
THE LATE CLASSICAL PERIOD, C. 400–323 BCE 142
Sculpture 143
The Art of the Goldsmith 146
Painting and Mosaics 146
THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD, 323–31/30 BCE 149
The Corinthian Order in Hellenistic Architecture 149
Sculpture 151
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ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Greek and Roman Deities 104
Classic and Classical 124
Who Owns the Art? The ElginMarbles and the Euphronios Krater 135
Women at a Fountain House 139
Women Artists in Ancient Greece 148
Greek Theaters 150
The Celts 152
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Tomb of the Diver 122
A CLOSER LOOK
The Euphronios Krater 119
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
The Greek Orders 110
TECHNIQUE
Color in Greek Sculpture 113
Black-Figure and Red-Figure 120
The Canon of Polykleitos 134
RECOVERING THE PAST
The Riace Warriors 127
CHAPTER 6 ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN ART 159
THE ETRUSCANS 160
Etruscan Architecture 160
Etruscan Temples 160
Tomb Chambers 162
Works in Bronze 166
THE ROMANS 168
Origins of Rome 168
Roman Religion 169
THE REPUBLIC, 509–27 BCE 169
Portrait Sculpture 169
ROMAN TEMPLES 173
THE EARLY EMPIRE, 27 BCE–96 CE 174
Art in the Age of Augustus 174
The Julio-Claudians 178
Roman Cities and the Roman Home 178
Wall Painting 181
The Flavians 187
THE HIGH IMPERIAL ART OF TRAJAN AND HADRIAN 190
Imperial Architecture 191
Imperial Portraits 201
THE LATE EMPIRE, THIRD AND FOURTH CENTURIES 203
The Severan Dynasty 204
The Soldier Emperors 204
Constantine the Great 208
Roman Art after Constantine 213
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ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Roman Writers on Art 169
Roman Portraiture 170
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Ara Pacis Augustae 176
A CLOSER LOOK
Sarcophagus with the Indian Triumph of Dionysus 206
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Roman Architectural Orders 163
The Roman Arch 172
Roman Vaulting 188
Concrete 196
TECHNIQUE
Roman Mosaics 202
RECOVERING THE PAST
The Mildenhall Treasure 214
CHAPTER 7 JEWISH, EARLY CHRISTIAN, AND BYZANTINE ART 217
JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND MUSLIMS 218
Early Jewish Art 218
Early Christian Art 222
IMPERIAL CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE AND ART 226
Architecture 226
Sculpture 229
Ravenna 230
EARLY BYZANTINE ART 233
The Golden Age of Justinian 233
Objects of Veneration and Devotion 242
Icons and Iconoclasm 244
MIDDLE BYZANTINE ART 246
Architecture and Mosaics 247
Objects of Veneration and Devotion 252
LATE BYZANTINE ART 254
Constantinople: The Chora Church 254
Moscow: Rublyov 259
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ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Narrative and Iconic 224
The Life of Jesus 231
Naming Christian Churches: Designation + Dedication + Location 239
Scroll and Codex 243
Iconoclasm 246
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Funerary Chapel of Theodore Metochites 256
A CLOSER LOOK
The Mosaic Floor of the Beth Alpha Synagogue 221
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Longitudinal-Plan and Central-Plan Churches 228
Pendentives and Squinches 236
RECOVERING THE PAST
Dura-Europos 223
CHAPTER 8 ISLAMIC ART 261
ISLAM AND EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY 262
ART AND ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 265
Early Architecture 265
THE LATER PERIOD 270
Architecture of the Mediterranean 271
Architecture of the East 275
Portable Arts 276
The Arts of the Book 279
Manuscript Painting 280
ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE THREE EMPIRES 282
The Ottoman Empire 282
The Safavid Dynasty 285
Mughal Dynasty 288
THE MODERN ERA 289
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ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Five Pillars of Islam 267
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Great Mosque of Cordoba 268
A CLOSER LOOK
A Mamluk Glass Oil Lamp 273
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Arches 271
TECHNIQUE
Ornament 264
Carpet Making 286
CHAPTER 9 ART OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA BEFORE 1200 291
THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT 292
INDUS CIVILIZATION 292
THE VEDIC PERIOD 295
THE MAURYA PERIOD 295
THE PERIOD OF THE SHUNGAS AND EARLY ANDHRAS 298
Stupas 298
Buddhist Rock-Cut Halls 302
THE KUSHAN AND LATER ANDHRA PERIODS 302
The Gandhara Style 303
The Mathura Style 303
The Southeast Indian Style 305
THE FOURTH THROUGH SEVENTH CENTURIES 306
Buddhist Sculpture 306
Painting 306
The Early Northern Temple 308
Monumental Narrative Reliefs 309
The Early Southern Temple 312
THE EIGHTH THROUGH THE FOURTEENTH CENTURIES 312
The Monumental Northern Temple 313
The Monumental Southern Temple 317
The Bhakti Movement in Art 318
ART OF SOUTHEAST ASIA 319
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ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Buddhism 297
Hinduism 298
Mudras 304
Meaning and Ritual in Hindu Temples and Images 310
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Shiva Nataraja of the Chola Dynasty 314
A CLOSER LOOK
Descent of the Ganges Relief, Mamallapuram 313
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Stupas and Temples 301
CHAPTER 10 CHINESE AND KOREAN ART BEFORE 1279 325
THE MIDDLE KINGDOM 326
NEOLITHIC CULTURES 326
Painted Pottery Cultures 326
Liangzhu Culture 326
BRONZE AGE CHINA 328
Shang Dynasty 328
Zhou Dynasty 329
THE CHINESE EMPIRE: QIN DYNASTY 332
HAN DYNASTY 332
Philosophy and Art 333
Architecture 335
SIX DYNASTIES 335
Painting 336
Calligraphy 337
Buddhist Art and Architecture 338
SUI AND TANG DYNASTIES 338
Buddhist Art and Architecture 339
Figure Painting 343
SONG DYNASTY 344
Philosophy: Neo-Confucianism 345
Northern Song Painting 345
Southern Song Painting and Ceramics 348
THE ARTS OF KOREA 350
The Three Kingdoms Period 350
The Unified Silla Period 352
Goryeo Dynasty 352
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ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Chinese Characters 331
Daoism 334
Confucius and Confucianism 337
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Silk Road during the Tang Period 342
A CLOSER LOOK
Rubbing of a stone relief 335
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Pagodas 345
TECHNIQUE
Piece-Mold Casting 329
CHAPTER 11 JAPANESE ART BEFORE 1333 355
PREHISTORIC JAPAN 356
Jomon Period 356
Yayoi Period 356
Kofun Period 356
ASUKA PERIOD 359
Horyuji 360
NARA PERIOD 361
HEIAN PERIOD 363
Esoteric Buddhist Art 363
Pure Land Buddhist Art 365
Secular Painting and Calligraphy 367
KAMAKURA PERIOD 370
Pure Land Buddhist Art 371
Zen Buddhist Art 375
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Writing, Language, and Culture 357
Buddhist Symbols 362
Arms and Armor 371
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Daruma, Founder of Zen 374
A CLOSER LOOK
The Tale of Genji 368
TECHNIQUE
Joined-Block Wood Sculpture 366
RECOVERING THE PAST
The Great Buddha Hall 364
CHAPTER 12 ART OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE 1300 377
THE NEW WORLD 378
MESOAMERICA 378
The Olmec 378
Teotihuacan 381
The Maya 384
CENTRAL AMERICA 390
SOUTH AMERICA: THE CENTRAL ANDES 391
Chavin de Huantar 391
The Paracas and Nazca Cultures 392
The Moche Culture 393
NORTH AMERICA 395
The East 395
The North American Southwest 397
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Maya Writing 385
The Cosmic Ballgame 389
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Rock Art 400
A CLOSER LOOK
Maya Stela 387
TECHNIQUE
Andean Textiles 394
CHAPTER 13 EARLY AFRICAN ART 403
THE LURE OF ANCIENT AFRICA 404
AFRICA—THE CRADLE OF ART AND CIVILIZATION 404
AFRICAN ROCK ART 404
Saharan Rock Art 405
SUB-SAHARAN CIVILIZATIONS 406
Nok 407
Igbo-Ukwu 408
Ife 409
Benin 410
OTHER URBAN CENTERS 416
Jenné 416
Great Zimbabwe 417
Aksum and Lalibela 419
Kongo Kingdom 419
EXPORTING TO THE WEST 421
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Myth of “Primitive” Art 406
Southern African Rock Art 408
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
A Warrior Chief Pledging Loyalty 414
A CLOSER LOOK
Igbo-Ukwu 413
TECHNIQUE
Lost-Wax Casting 415
CHAPTER 14 EARLY MEDIEVAL ART IN EUROPE 423
THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES 424
THE ART OF THE “BARBARIANS” IN EUROPE 425
The Merovingians 425
The Norse 427
The Celts and Anglo-Saxons in Britain 427
THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ART OF THE BRITISH ISLES 428
Illustrated Books 429
MOZARABIC ART IN SPAIN 433
Beatus Manuscripts 433
THE VIKING ERA 435
The Oseberg Ship 435
Picture Stones at Jelling 436
Timber Architecture 436
THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE 438
Carolingian Architecture 438
Illustrated Books 442
Carolingian Metalwork 445
OTTONIAN EUROPE 446
Ottonian Architecture 446
Ottonian Sculpture 448
Illustrated Books 450
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ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Defining the Middle Ages 425
The Medieval Scriptorium 432
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Lindisfarne Gospels 430
A CLOSER LOOK
Psalm 23 in the Utrecht Psalter 445
RECOVERING THE PAST
Sutton Hoo 429
CHAPTER 15 ROMANESQUE ART 453
EUROPE IN THE ROMANESQUE PERIOD 454
Political and Economic Life 454
The Church 454
ROMANESQUE ART 455
ARCHITECTURE 456
“First Romanesque” 457
“Pilgrimage Churches” 457
Cluny 460
The Cistercians 463
Regional Styles in Romanesque Architecture 464
Secular Architecture: Dover Castle, England 472
ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTURE 473
Wiligelmo at the Cathedral of Modena 474
The Priory Church of Saint-Pierre at Moissac 474
The Church of Saint-Lazare at Autun 477
SCULPTURE IN WOOD AND BRONZE 480
Christ on the Cross (Majestat Batlló) 480
Mary as the Throne of Wisdom 480
Tomb of Rudolf of Swabia 481
Reiner of Huy 482
TEXTILES AND BOOKS 482
Chronicling History 483
Sacred Books 486
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Pilgrim’s Journey 458
Relics and Reliquaries 462
St. Bernard and Theophilus: The Monastic Controversy over the Visual Arts 464
The Paintings of San Climent in Taull: Mozarabic Meets Byzantine 468
Hildegard of Bingen 487
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Bayeux Embroidery 484
A CLOSER LOOK
The Last Judgment Tympanum at Autun 478
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
The Romanesque Church Portal 473
CHAPTER 16 GOTHIC ART OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES 491
THE EMERGENCE OF THE GOTHIC STYLE 492
The Rise of Urban and Intellectual Life 492
The Age of Cathedrals 493
GOTHIC ART IN FRANCE 493
The Birth of Gothic at the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis 494
Gothic Cathedrals 496
Art in the Age of St. Louis 507
GOTHIC ART IN ENGLAND 512
Manuscript Illumination 512
Architecture 515
GOTHIC ART IN GERMANY AND THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE 517
Architecture 518
Sculpture 520
GOTHIC ART IN ITALY 522
Sculpture: The Pisano Family 522
Painting 525
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Abbot Suger on the Value of Art in Monasteries 493
Master Builders 502
Villard de Honnecourt 508
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris 510
A CLOSER LOOK
The Opening of Psalm 1 in the Windmill Psalter 514
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Rib Vaulting 497
The Gothic Church 499
TECHNIQUE
Stained-Glass Windows 496
RECOVERING THE PAST
The Church of St. Francis at Assisi 523
CHAPTER 17 FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE 529
FOURTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE 530
ITALY 531
Florentine Architecture and Metalwork 532
Florentine Painting 532
Sienese Painting 539
FRANCE 547
Manuscript Illumination 547
Metalwork and Ivory 549
ENGLAND 552
Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum 552
Architecture 554
THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE 554
Mysticism and Suffering 554
The Supremacy of Prague 555
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
A New Spirit in Fourteenth-Century Literature 531
The Black Death 546
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
An Ivory Chest with Scenes of Romance 550
A CLOSER LOOK
The Hours of Jeanne d’Évreux 548
TECHNIQUE
Buon Fresco 537
Cennino Cennini on Panel Painting 542
CHAPTER 18 FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE 561
THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE 562
ART FOR THE FRENCH DUCAL COURTS 562
Painting and Sculpture for the Chartreuse de Champmol 562
Manuscript Illumination 566
Textiles 568
PAINTING IN FLANDERS 571
The Founders of the Flemish School 571
Painting at Mid Century: The Second Generation 580
EUROPE BEYOND FLANDERS 583
France 584
Germany and Switzerland 586
THE GRAPHIC ARTS 589
Single Sheets 589
Printed Books 589
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Altars and Altarpieces 564
Women Artists in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 566
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Ghent Altarpiece 576
A CLOSER LOOK
A Goldsmith in his Shop 581
TECHNIQUE
Oil Painting 571
Woodcuts and Engravings on Metal 590
CHAPTER 19 RENAISSANCE ART IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY 593
HUMANISM AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE 594
FLORENCE 594
Architecture 595
Sculpture 602
Painting 609
Painting in Florence after Masaccio 612
ITALIAN ART IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY 615
Urbino 615
Mantua 620
Rome 621
The Later Fifteenth Century in Florence 623
Venice 627
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Competition Reliefs 601
The Morelli–Nerli Wedding Chests 616
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Foundling Hospital 598
A CLOSER LOOK
Primavera 626
TECHNIQUE
Renaissance Perspective 608
CHAPTER 20 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN ITALY 631
EUROPE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 632
ITALY IN THE EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY: THE HIGH RENAISSANCE 632
Three Great Artists of the Early Sixteenth Century 633
Architecture in Rome and the Vatican 650
Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture in Northern Italy 650
Venice and the Veneto 654
MANNERISM 659
Painting 660
Sculpture 665
ART AND THE COUNTER-REFORMATION 666
Art and Architecture in Rome and the Vatican 666
LATER SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN VENICE AND THE VENETO 670
Oil Painting 670
Architecture: Palladio 672
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Vitruvian Man 637
St. Peter’s Basilica 651
Women Patrons of the Arts 658
Veronese is Called before the Inquisition 671
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Raphael’s Cartoons for Tapestries in the Sistine Chapel 646
A CLOSER LOOK
The School of Athens 640
CHAPTER 21 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE IBERIAN PENINSULA 677
THE REFORMATION AND THE ARTS 678
GERMANY 679
Sculpture 679
Painting 680
FRANCE 689
A French Renaissance under Francis I 689
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 692
Architecture 694
Painting 694
THE NETHERLANDS 696
Art for Aristocratic and Noble Patrons 696
Antwerp 701
ENGLAND 705
Artists in the Tudor Court 705
Architecture 708
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Castle of the Ladies 690
Sculpture for the Knights of Christ at Tomar 693
Armor for Royal Games 707
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Breugel’s Cycle of the Months 702
A CLOSER LOOK
The French Ambassadors 704
TECHNIQUE
German Metalwork: A Collaborative Venture 684
CHAPTER 22 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE 711
“BAROQUE” 712
ITALY 712
Architecture and Sculpture in Rome 712
Painting 718
SPAIN 729
Painting in Spain’s Golden Age 729
Architecture in Spain 734
FLANDERS AND THE NETHERLANDS 735
Flanders 735
The Dutch Republic 742
France 755
Architecture and its Decoration at Versailles 758
Painting 759
ENGLAND 765
Architecture 765
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Science and the Changing Worldview 756
Grading the Old Masters 764
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Caravaggio in the Contarelli Chapel 722
A CLOSER LOOK
Brueghel and Rubens’s Allegory of Sight 740
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Seventeenth-Century French Garden Design 760
TECHNIQUE
Etchings and Drypoint 748
CHAPTER 23 ART OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA AFTER 1200 771
INDIA AFTER 1200 772
Buddhist Art 772
Jain Art 773
Hindu Art 774
THE BUDDHIST AND HINDU INHERITANCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA 775
Theravada Buddhism in Burma and Thailand 775
Vietnamese Ceramics 777
Indonesian Traditions 778
MUGHAL PERIOD 778
Mughal Architecture 779
Mughal Painting 781
Rajput Painting 784
INDIA’S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WEST 786
British Colonial Period 786
The Modern Period 787
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Tantric Influence in the Art of Nepal and Tibet 776
Foundations of Indian Culture 778
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Luxury Arts 782
A CLOSER LOOK
Private Audience Hall, Fatehpur Sikri 780
TECHNIQUE
Indian Painting on Paper 783
CHAPTER 24 CHINESE AND KOREAN ART AFTER 1279 791
THE MONGOL INVASIONS 792
YUAN DYNASTY 792
MING DYNASTY 795
Court and Professional Painting 796
Decorative Arts 798
Architecture and City Planning 799
The Literati Aesthetic 800
QING DYNASTY 804
Orthodox Painting 805
Individualist Painting 805
THE MODERN PERIOD 806
ARTS OF KOREA: THE JOSEON DYNASTY TO THE MODERN ERA 807
Joseon Ceramics 807
Joseon Painting 808
Modern Korea 810
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Foundations of Chinese Culture 793
Marco Polo 794
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Poet on a Mountaintop 802
A CLOSER LOOK
Spring Dawn in the Han Palace 798
TECHNIQUE
Formats of Chinese Painting 797
The Secret of Porcelain 800
CHAPTER 25 JAPANESE ART AFTER 1333 813
MUROMACHI PERIOD 814
Zen Ink Painting 814
The Zen Dry Garden 816
MOMOYAMA PERIOD 817
Architecture 818
Decorative Paintings for Shoin Rooms 818
The Tea Ceremony 820
EDO PERIOD 821
Rinpa School Painting 821
Naturalistic Painting 824
Literati Painting 825
Ukiyo-e: Pictures of the Floating World 826
Zen Painting: Buddhist Art for Rural Commoners 827
Crafts 828
THE MODERN PERIOD 829
Meiji Period Nationalist Painting 829
Japan After World War II 830
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Foundations of Japanese Culture 817
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Lacquer Box for Writing Implements 822
A CLOSER LOOK
Kosode with Design of Waves and Floral Bouquets 830
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Shoin Design 819
TECHNIQUE
Inside a Writing Box 824
Japanese Woodblock Prints 828
RECOVERING THE PAST
Craftmakers as Living National Treasures 832
CHAPTER 26 ART OF THE AMERICAS: AFTER 1300 835
THE AZTEC EMPIRE 836
Tenochtitlan 836
Sculpture 837
Featherwork 838
Manuscripts 839
THE INCA EMPIRE IN SOUTH AMERICA 840
Cuzco 841
Textiles 842
Metalwork 843
The Aftermath of the Spanish Conquest 843
NORTH AMERICA 843
The Eastern Woodlands 844
The Great Plains 846
The Northwest Coast 849
The Southwest 852
A NEW BEGINNING 855
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Navajo Night Chant 854
Craft or Art? 856
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Hamatsa Masks 850
A CLOSER LOOK
Calendar Stone 839
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Inca Masonry 842
TECHNIQUE
Basketry 845
CHAPTER 27 ART OF PACIFIC CULTURES 859
THE PEOPLING OF THE PACIFIC 860
AUSTRALIA 861
MELANESIA 862
New Guinea 863
New Ireland 865
New Britain 866
MICRONESIA 866
POLYNESIA 868
Marquesas Islands 869
Hawai’i 872
Monumental Moai on Rapa Nui 873
Samoa 874
RECENT ART IN OCEANIA 874
Pacific Arts Festival 974
BOXES
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Te-Hau-ki-Turanga 870
A CLOSER LOOK
Man’s Love Story 876
CHAPTER 28 ART OF AFRICA IN THE MODERN ERA 879
TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY AFRICA 880
Domestic Architecture 882
Children and the Continuity of Life 883
Initiation 885
The Spirit World 889
Leadership 891
Death and Ancestors 895
CONTEMPORARY ART 899
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Foundations of African Cultures 883
Divination among the Chokwe 892
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Kuba Funerary Rites 896
A CLOSER LOOK
Kongo Nkisi Nkonde 890
CHAPTER 29 EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 903
INDUSTRIAL, INTELLECTUAL, AND POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS 904
THE ROCOCO STYLE 904
Rococo Salons 905
Rococo Painting and Sculpture 906
Rococo Church Decoration 910
ITALY: THE GRAND TOUR AND NEOCLASSICISM 911
Grand Tour Portraits and Views 911
Neoclassicism in Rome 913
NEOCLASSICISM AND EARLY ROMANTICISM
IN BRITAIN 915
The Classical Revival in Architecture and Design 916
The Gothic Revival in Architecture and Design 919
Trends in British Painting 920
LATER EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN FRANCE 930
Architecture 930
Painting and Sculpture 932
ART IN SPAIN AND SPANISH AMERICA 938
Portraiture and Protest in Spain: Goya 938
The Art of the Americas under Spain 941
EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART: NEOCLASSICISM
AND ROMANTICISM 943
Neoclassicism and Romanticism in France 944
Romantic Landscape Painting 953
Gothic and Neoclassical Styles in Architecture 956
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Academies and Academy Exhibitions 924
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Raft of the “Medusa” 946
A CLOSER LOOK
Georgian Silver 919
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Iron as a Building Material 926
TECHNIQUE
Lithography 952
CHAPTER 30 MID TO LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY ART IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES 961
EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE MID TO LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY 962
FRENCH ACADEMIC ARCHITECTURE AND ART 962
Academic Architecture 963
Academic Painting and Sculpture 964
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES 967
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE AVANT GARDE: REALISM AND BEYOND 971
Realism and Revolution 971
The Painter of Modern Life: Manet 976
Responses to Realism Beyond France 979
IMPRESSIONISM 984
The Landscape 984
The Figure 987
Modern Life 989
LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART AND THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERNISM 991
Post-Impressionism 992
Late Nineteenth-Century Art in Britain 997
Symbolism 1001
Late Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture 1003
Art Nouveau 1004
Cézanne and the Beginnings of Modernism 1007
THE ORIGINS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE 1009
Technology and Structure 1009
The Chicago School of Architecture 1011
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Snake Charmer 966
The Mass Dissemination of Art 974
Art on Trial in 1877 999
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Modern Artists and World Cultures 994
A CLOSER LOOK
Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère 980
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
The City Park 1014
TECHNIQUE
The Photographic Process 970
CHAPTER 31 MODERN ART IN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS, 1900–1950 1017
EUROPE AND AMERICA IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 1018
EARLY MODERN ART IN EUROPE 1019
The Fauves: Wild Beasts of Color 1019
Picasso, Primitivism, and the Coming of Cubism 1021
The Bridge and Primitivism 1026
Independent Expressionists 1028
Spiritualism of the Blue Rider 1029
Extensions of Cubism 1031
Toward Abstraction in Sculpture 1035
Dada: Questioning Art Itself 1036
MODERNIST TENDENCIES IN AMERICA 1040
The Ashcan School 1040
Stieglitz and the “291” Gallery 1041
The Armory Show and Home-Grown Modernism 1042
EARLY MODERN ARCHITECTURE 1043
European Modernism 1045
American Modern Architecture 1046
ART BETWEEN THE WARS IN EUROPE 1048
Utilitarian Art Forms in Russia 1048
Rationalism in the Netherlands 1052
Bauhaus Art in Germany 1054
Surrealists Rearrange Our Minds 1056
Unit One in England 1060
MODERN ART IN THE AMERICAS BETWEEN THE WARS 1061
The Harlem Renaissance 1061
Rural America 1065
Canada 1067
Mexico 1068
Brazil 1070
Cuba 1071
POSTWAR ART IN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS 1071
Figural Responses and Art Informel in Europe
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM 1073
The Center Shifts: Postwar Art in New York 1073
The Formative Phase 1074
Jackson Pollock and Action Painting 1075
Color Field Painting 1079
Sculpture of the New York School 1081
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Suppression of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany 1055
Federal Patronage for American Art During the Depression 1066
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Guernica 1062
A CLOSER LOOK
Portrait of a German Officer 1044
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
The Skyscraper 1050
The International Style 1057
CHAPTER 32 THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE SINCE 1950 1083
THE WORLD SINCE THE 1950S 1084
The Art World Since the 1950s 1084
THE EXPANDING ART WORLD 1084
Assemblage 1084
Happenings and Performance Art 1085
Photography 1089
Pop Art 1090
THE DEMATERIALIZATION OF THE ART OBJECT 1094
Minimalism 1094
Conceptual and Performance Art 1095
Process Art 1097
Feminism and Art 1099
Earthworks and Site-Specific Sculpture 1102
ARCHITECTURE: MIDCENTURY MODERNISM TO POSTMODERNISM 1104
Midcentury Modernist Architecture 1104
Postmodern Architecture 1105
POSTMODERNISM 1106
Painting 1106
Postmodernism and Gender 1109
Postmodernism, Race and Ethnicity 1111
Sculpture 1112
ART, ACTIVISM, AND CONTROVERSY: THE NINETIES 1114
The Culture Wars 1115
Activist Art 1117
Postcolonial Discourse 1121
High Tech and Deconstructive Architecture 1123
Video and Film 1125
GLOBALISM: INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM 1126
Art and Technology 1127
Art and Ambiguous Identities 1128
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Guerrilla Girls 1108
Controversies Over Public Funding for the Arts 1120
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Dinner Party 1100
A CLOSER LOOK
Martin Puryear, Plenty’s Boast, 1994–1995 1098
CONTEMPORARY WORLD MAP 1136
GLOSSARY 1137
BIBLIOGRAPHY 1146
CREDITS 1158
INDEX 1163
This fourth edition of Art History is the essential guide to art from prehistory to the present day. Lavishly illustrated with numerous student-friendly features Stokstad and Cothrens book provides a complete and vibrant picture of art and its historical impact on the world.
Marilyn Stokstad, teacher, art historian, and museum curator, has been a leader in her field for decades and has served as president of the College Art Association and the International Center of Medieval Art. In 2002, she was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the National Women’s Caucus for Art. In 1997, she was awarded the Governor’s Arts Award as Kansas Art Educator of the Year and an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters by Carleton College. She is Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She has also served in various leadership capacities at the University’s Spencer Museum of Art and is Consultative Curator of Medieval Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri
Michael W. Cothren is Scheuer Family Professor of Humanities at Swarthmore College, where he has also served as Art Department Chair, Coordinator of Medieval Studies, and Divisional Chair of the Humanities. Since arriving at Swarthmore in 1978, he has taught specialized courses on Medieval, Roman, and Islamic art and architecture, as well as seminars on visual narrative and on theory and method, but he particularly enjoys teaching the survey to Swarthmore beginners. His research and publications focus on French Gothic art and architecture, most recently in a book on the stained glass of Beauvais Cathedral entitled Picturing the Celestial City. Michael is a consultative curator at the Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. He has served on the board of the International Center of Medieval Art and as President both of the American Committee of the International Corpus Vitrearum and of his local school board. When not teaching, writing, or pursuing art historical research, you can finding him hiking in the red rocks around Sedona, Arizona.
A new eight-pound entry in the one-volume history-of-art battle of the titans, this title competes directly with Gardner's Art Through the Ages (1926; 10th ed., 1996), Janson's History of Art (1962; 5th ed., 1995), Hartt's Art: A History (1976; 4th ed. 1993), and Honour and Fleming's The Visual Arts: A History (1982; 4th ed., 1995). Each comes with hundreds of illustrations of wildly varying quality-Stokstad's are mostly color, mostly adequate-and each attempts to combine the factual density requirements of a survey course textbook with attractive writing and narrative. In addition, at least in the recent editions, each aims to be "inclusive," discussing women and minority artists to some degree. Distinguished art historian Stokstad (Univ. of Kansas) and her coauthors, mostly colleagues, have done a creditable job. Acknowledging straight off that students today lack a deep knowledge of cultural history, Stokstad aims to be "user-friendly," and her book comes replete with a computer-like "starter kit" of definitions, explanatory text boxes on techniques, and some very good explicatory line drawings, usually architectural. Of the five competitors, four are published by Abrams and all are priced within five dollars of one another. Gardner is much more column after column of text, with little relief. Hartt, a Renaissance scholar, and Honour and Fleming, specialists in the Baroque, write with personal voices; Stokstad, a medievalist, also has a pleasant style. This reviewer recommends that libraries stock Honour and Fleming for their excellent writing and clear art historical point of view and Stockstad's work, which is well written, achieves a good balance of narrative and facts, and is the most inclusive. One caveat: The review copy of Stokstad had broken from its casing before arrival.-Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.
Destined to establish itself as a modern classic, this hugely informative, wholly enjoyable global history of art from prehistoric times to the present views art as a fundamental, inextricable vehicle for the human spirit. Although Western visual art and architecture receive the most attention, there is also extensive coverage of India, China, Japan, Africa, Islamic art and Pacific cultures. Few texts so wide-rangingly connect the artistic output of each period to the artists' lives, sources of funding and historical, social and political context. The 1625 stunning illustrations (761 in color) are unrivaled in their adventurous selection and quality by any book of this type. Time lines chart parallel developments across cultures and civilizations; inserts spotlight literary and intellectual trends and artists' techniques. Stokstad, art history professor at the University of Kansas, has produced both a college text and a layperson's guide that is more fun than H.W. Janson's standard History of Art, and more multicultural. (Feb.)
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