The Story of Art - 16th Edition

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Phaidon Press, 1995 - 688 pàgines
Introduction: On Art and Artists 1 Strange Beginnings: Prehistoric and Primitive Peoples; Ancient America 2 Art for Eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete 3 The Great Awakening: Greece, Seventh to Fifth Century BC 4 The Realm of Beauty: Greece and the Greek World, Fourth Century BC to First Century AD 5 World Conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, First to Fourth Century AD 6 A Parting of Ways: Rome and Byzantium, Fifth to Thirteenth Century 7 Looking Eastwards: Islam, China, Second to Thirteenth Century 8 Western Art in the Melting Pot: Europe, Sixth to Eleventh Century 9 The Church Militant: The Twelfth Century 10 The Church Triumphant: The Thirteenth Century 11 Courtiers and Burghers: The Fourteenth Century 12 The Conquest of Reality: The Early Fifteenth Century 13 Tradition and Innovation I: The Later Fifteenth Century in Italy 14 Tradition and Innovation II: The Fifteenth Century in the North 15 Harmony Attained: Tuscany and Rome, Early Sixteenth Century 16 Light and Colour: Venice and Northern Italy, Early Sixteenth Century 17 The New Learning Spreads: Germany and the Netherlands, Early Sixteenth Century 18 A Crisis of Art: Europe, Later Sixteenth Century 19 Vision and Visions: Catholic Europe, First Half of the Seventeenth Century 20 The Mirror of Nature: Holland, Seventeenth Century 21 Power and Glory I: Italy, Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 22 Power and Glory II: France, Germany and Austria, Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries 23 The Age of Reason: England and France, Eighteenth Century 24 The Break in Tradition: England, America and France, Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 25 Permanent Revolution: The Nineteenth Century 26 In Search of New Standards: The Late Nineteenth Century 27 Experimental Art: The First Half of the Twentieth Century 28 A Story without End: The Triumph of Modernism Another Turning of the Tide The Changing Past A Note on Art Books Chronological Charts Maps List of Illustrations by Location Index and Glossary Acknowledgments.

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Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, born March 30, 1909, in Vienna, Austria, was educated at Vienna University where he earned a Ph.D. His career includes terms as Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford and Cambridge universities and as Andrew D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University. Gombrich's books on art and art history have sold as well as some works of fiction. One of his most popular titles is The Story of Art, which has been translated into 18 languages and sold more than two million copies. Other titles are; Looking for Answers: Conversations on Art and Science (with Didier Eribon), Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art, and Gombrich on Art and Psychology. His numerous awards include the Erasmus Prize in 1975, the Hegel Prize in 1976, and the International Balzan Prize in 1985. He holds honorary degrees from various universities, among them Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard, and from the Royal College of Art (London), 1981.

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