| Edition |
Library edition. |
| Description |
8 videodiscs (1440 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks (22 cm.). |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts.
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Note |
Four parts in four containers. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Ori Z. Soltes, Georgetown University. |
| Summary |
Presents a 48-lecture course in Western visual art that serves as both a mind-broadening survey and an essential introduction. It is designed to give anyone interested in Western art a firm familiarity with its basics, including major artists and styles in various media and providing a broad foundation for deeper exploration. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. 1. Continuity and transformation: what is art? -- 2. Art as the offspring of religion -- 3. Preclassical Greek art -- 4. Toward the classical Athenian moment -- 5. Beyond the borders of classical Greek art -- 6. The birth of the new: Hellenistic art -- 7. Hellenistic, Etruscan, and early Roman art -- 8. Roman and Judaean art -- 9. Early Christian art and its progeny -- 10. The beginnings of Jewish art -- 11. Christian medieval art and architecture -- 12. The language of Romanesque and Gothic art. |
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Pt. 2. 13. Islamic art from abstract to figurative -- 14. Jewish medieval art and architecture -- 15. Early Renaissance painting in central Italy -- 16. 15th century Italian Renaissance painting -- 17. Renaissance painting beyond the Alps -- 18. Renaissance sculpture: toward Florence -- 19. Toward high Renaissance in central Italy -- 20. High Renaissance in central Italy -- 21. The rebirth of classical dynamism -- 22. The light of the Veneto -- 23. 16th century Northern European painting -- 24. Transformation of people, objects, ideas. |
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Pt. 3. 25. The Reformation and the Mannerist crisis -- 26. Baroque shadows: Venice to Madrid to Rome -- 27. Shadow and light from Rome to the lowlands -- 28. Northern landscapes and life sweeps -- 29. The counter-Reformation from Italy outward -- 30. Revolutions in Spanish and English painting -- 31. France's gold and silver ages -- 32. Politics and romanticism -- 33. From realism to impressionism -- 34. From Paris to the East -- 35. American romantic realism and its progeny -- 36. Fin de Siècle European art movements. |
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Pt. 4. 37. Asia and Africa in the Western mind -- 38. They all came to Paris -- 39. Revolutions in early 20th century painting -- 40. Figuration and abstraction: the struggle -- 41. Developments in sculpture: Rodin to Judd -- 42. New worlds of architecture: Wright to Hadid -- 43. The edges of West and East -- 44. Art, trauma, and politics -- 45. Defining modern Jewish art -- 46. The problem of categories in modern art -- 47. The explosion of modernist media -- 48. Art, politics, and religion from era to era. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Art -- History.
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Art -- Themes, motives.
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Art appreciation.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
9781598033564 |
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1598033565 |
| Music No. |
7150 Teaching Company |
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