| Description |
xx, 345 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
This companion volume to the PBS television series "integrates the works of each period with the history, values, and ideals that gave birth to Western art ... [and] offers fresh insights into what the great works meant at the time they were created."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
The art of Greece -- The Roman world -- The triumph of faith : western art to 1100 -- The age of cathedrals -- The dawn of a new era : Italian art, c. 1250-1400 -- The early renaissance in Italy -- The north in the fifteen century -- The age of titans : Italian art of the sixteenth century -- Art for popes and princes -- A golden age : Dutch art of the seventeenth century -- From fantasy to revolution : the art of the eighteenth century -- From fantasy to revolution : the art of the eighteenth century -- Art as emotion : the first half of the nineteenth century -- Toward a new reality : 1850-1900 -- A break with the past : the art of the early twentieth century -- Art between the world wars : 1918-1941 -- The triumph of modernism 1945-1970 -- Art in the post-modern era. |
| Local Note |
Gift of Emmalou and Otto Kirchmeier. |
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Gift of Emmalou and Otto Kirchmeier. |
| Subject |
Art -- History.
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| Added Author |
Gealt, Adelheid M.
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| ISBN |
0671670077 |
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9780671670078 |
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