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Table of Contents:
In this Section: 1) Brief Table of Contents 2) Full Table of Contents     BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:   PART 1: THE ANCIENT WORLD Chapter 1. Prehistoric Art Chapter 2. Ancient Near Eastern Art Chapter 3. Egyptian Art Chapter 4. Aegean Art Chapter 5. Greek Art Chapter 6. Etruscan Art Chapter 7. Roman Art   PART 2: THE MIDDLE AGES Chapter 8. Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art Chapter 9. Islamic Art Chapter 10. Early Medieval Art Chapter 11. Romanesque Art Chapter 12. Gothic Art   PART 3: THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO: EARLY MODERN EUROPE Chapter 13. Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy Chapter 14. Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe Chapter 15. The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy Chapter 16. The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495–1520 Chapter 17. The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy Chapter 18. Renaissance and Reformation throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe Chapter 19. The Baroque in Italy and Spain Chapter 20. The Baroque in the Netherlands Chapter 21. The Baroque in France and England Chapter 22. The Rococo   PART 4: THE MODERN WORLD Chapter 23. Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750–1789 Chapter 24. Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789–1848 Chapter 25. The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848–1885 Chapter 26. Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880–1905 Chapter 27. Toward Abstraction: The Modernist Revolution, 1905–1914 Chapter 28. Art Between the Wars Chapter 29. Postwar to Postmodern, 1945–1980 Chapter 30. The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980   FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:     PART 1: THE ANCIENT WORLD   Chapter 1. Prehistoric Art   Paleolithic Art   Neolithic Art   Chapter 2. Ancient Near Eastern Art   Sumerian Art   Art of Akkad   Neo-Sumerian Revival   Babylonian Art   Assyrian Art   Late Babylonian Art   Persian Art   Chapter 3. Egyptian Art   Predynastic and Early Dynastic Art   The Old Kingdom: A Golden Age   The Middle Kingdom: Reasserting Tradition   The New Kingdom: Restored Glory   Akhenaten and the Amarna Style   Chapter 4. Aegean Art   Early Cycladic Art   Minoan Art   Mycenaean Art   Chapter 5. Greek Art   The emergence of Greek Art: The Geometric Style   The Orientalizing Style: Horizons Expand   Archaic Art: Art of the City-State   The Classical Age   The Age of Alexander and the Hellenistic Period   Chapter 6. Etruscan Art   Funerary Art   Architecture   Sculpture   Chapter 7. Roman Art   Early Rome and the Republic   The Early Empire   Art and Architecture in the Provinces   Domestic Art And Architecture in the Proviences     PART 2: THE MIDDLE AGES   Chapter 8. Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art Jewish Art Early Christian Art Byzantine Art Chapter 9. Islamic Art   The formation of Islamic Art   The Development of Islamic Style   Islamic Art and the Persian Inheritance   The Ottoman Empire   Chapter 10. Early Medieval Art   Anglo-Saxon Art   Hiberno-Saxon Art   Carolingian Art   Ottonian Art   Chapter 11. Romanesque Art   First Expressions of Romanesque Style   Mature Romanesque   Regional Variants of the Romanesque Style   Chapter 12. Gothic Art   Early Gothic Art in France   High Gothic Art in France   Rayonnant or Court Style   Late Gothic Art in France   The Spread of Gothic Art     PART 3: THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO: EARLY MODERN EUROPE   Chapter 13. Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy   The Cities and the Mendicant   New Directions in Tuscan Painting   Late Fourteen-Century Crises   Chapter 14. Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe   Courtly Art: The International Gothic   Urban Centers and the New Art   Regional Responses to the Early Netherlandish Style   Printing and the Graphic Arts   Chapter 15. The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy   The inspiration of Antiquity in Florence   Italian Art During the Era of the Medici, 1434094   The Renaissance Palace and its Furnishings, CA. 1440-90   The Renaissance Style Reverberates, 1450-1500   Chapter 16. The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495–1520   Leonardo and the Florentine High Renaissance   The High Renaissance in Rome   Venice and the High Rennaissance   Chapter 17. The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy   Late Renaissance Florence   Rome Refermed   Cities and Courts in Northern Italy and Venice    Chapter 18. Renaissance and Reformation throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe   France and Spain: Catholic Courts and Italian Influence   Central Europe: The Reformation and Art   Protestant Courts and Cities and New Forms of Art   The Netherlands: World Marketplace   Chapter 19. The Baroque in Italy and Spain   Painting in Italy   Architecture in Italy   Sculpture in Italy   Painting in Spain   Chapter 20. The Baroque in the Netherlands   Flanders   The Dutch Republic   The Market: Landscape, Still Life and Genre Painting   Chapter 21. The Baroque in France and England   France: The Style of Louis XIV   Baroque Architecture in England   Chapter 22. The Rococo   France: The Rise of the Rococo   Western European Rococo outside France   The Rococo in Central Europe     PART 4: THE MODERN WORLD Chapter 23. Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750–1789   Rome Toward 1760: The Front of Neoclassicism   Rome Toward 1960: Romanticism   Neoclassicism in Britain   Early Romanticism in Britain   Neoclassicism in France   Italian Neoclassicism Towards 1785   Chapter 24. Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789–1848   Painting   Sculpture   Romantic Revivals in Architecture   Chapter 25. The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848–1885   Realism in France   British Realism   Realism in America   Photography: A Mechanical Medium for Mass-produced Art   Architecture and the Industrial Revolution   Ferroviteous Structures: Train Sheds and Exhibition Palaces   Chapter 26. Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880–1905   Post-Impressionism   Symbolism   Art Nouveau and the Search for Modern Design   American Architecture: The Chicago School   Photography   Chapter 27. Toward Abstraction: The Modernist Revolution, 1905–1914   Fauvism   Cubism   The Impact of Fauvism and Cubism   Modernist Sculpture: Constantin Brancusi   American Art    Early Modern Architecture in Europe   Chapter 28. Art Between the Wars   Dada   Surrealism   Organic Sculpture   Creating Utopias   Art in America: Modernity, Spirituality, and Regionalism   Mexican Art: Seeking National Identity   The Eve of World War II   Chapter 29. Postwar to Postmodern, 1945–1980   Existentialism in New York: Abstract Expressionism   Rejecting Abstract Expressionism: American Art of the 1950s and1960s   Formalist Abstraction of the 1950s and 1960s   The Pluralist 1970s: Post-Minimalism   Art with a Social Agenda   Late Modernist Architecture   Chapter 30. The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980   Architecture   Poster-minimalism and Pluralism: Limitless Possibilities    

About the Author :
Penelope J. E. Davies is Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a scholar of Greek and Roman art and architecture as well as a field archaeologist. She is author of Death and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, winner of the Vasari Award.   Walter B. Denny is a Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In addition to exhibition catalogues, his publications include books on Ottoman Turkish carpets, textiles, and ceramics, and articles on miniature painting, architecture and architectural decoration.   Frima Fox Hofrichter is Professor and former Chair of the History of Art and Design department at Pratt Institute. She is author of Judith Leyster, A Dutch Artist in Holland’s Golden Age, which received CAA’s Millard Meiss Publication Fund Award.   Joseph Jacobs is an independent scholar, critic, and art historian of modern art in New York City. He was the curator of modern art at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, director of the Oklahoma City Art Museum, and curator of American art at The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey.   David L. Simon is Jetté Professor of Art at Colby College, where he received the Basset Teaching Award in 2005. Among his publications is the catalogue of Spanish and southern French Romanesque sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters.   Ann M. Roberts, Professor of Art at Lake Forest College has published essays, articles and reviews on both Northern and Italian Renaissance topics. Her research focuses on women in the Renaissance, and her most recent publication is entitled Dominican Women and Renaissance Art:The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa.   H. W. Janson was a legendary name in art history. During his long career as a teacher and scholar, he helped define the discipline through his impressive books and other publications.   Anthony F. Janson forged a distinguished career as a professor, scholar, museum professional and writer. From the time of his father’s death in 1982 until 2004, he authored History of Art.

Review :
“The text presents the material in a very logical way, and the author presents material that can be difficult in a very engaging way. The illustrations are well-chosen, and the text is unlike others that are currently available.”  -  Alyson Gill, Arkansas State University   “Thorough, clear, and beautiful image quality – gold standard of survey texts.”  - Kathryn Keller, The Art Institute of New York City   “A good, affordable, overview text for a basic art history survey course.”  - Cory Peeke, Eastern Oregon University   “A strong text with great illustrations. Straight and to the point.”  - Donald Royal,Warner University   “It is well-written, comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and very accessible to community college students.”  -  Elizabeth Tebow, Northern Virginia Community College