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Art and civilization / Edward Lucie-Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : H.N. Abrams, 1995.Description: 560 p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 185669027X
  • 9781856690270
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709 LUC 20 3335
LOC classification:
  • NX440 .L8 1993
Contents:
pt. 1. Beginnings : European prehistory ; Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (focus: The tomb of Tutankhamun) pt. 2. Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, & Byzantium : Ancient Greece ; Ancient Rome (focus: The Laocoon) ; Judaism and Christianity ; Byzantium pt. 3. The Middle Ages : The early Middle Ages (focus: An Anglo-Saxon chieftain's regalia ; The Emperor Charlemagne ; Monastic life : life at Cluny) ; The late Middle Ages (focus: The Black Death) ; Transition to the modern world : Northern Europe pt. 4. The Renaissance : Humanism in Italy (focus: The early Medici) ; The Italian High Renaissance ; The Reformation ; Mannerism (focus: The royal icon) pt. 5. The Baroque : The Baroque in Italy ; Spain and Flanders (focus: The conquest of Mexico) ; French classicism (focus: Louis XIV and absolutism) ; Protestant Baroque (focus: Rembrandt's self-portraits). pt. 6. The eighteenth century : The rococo (focus: Madame de Pompadour) ; The middle class ; The Enlightenment (focus: Catherine the Great) ; The cult of nature and the cult of feeling pt. 7. Romanticism & the nineteenth century : The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire (focus: The British in India) ; Romanticism (focus: The legend of Paganini) ; Realism ; Symbolism (focus: The arts and crafts movement) pt. 8. The modern age : The birth of modernism (focus: African art and cubism) ; Armageddon and the interwar culture in Europe ; The rise of America (focus: The cinema) ; Europe 1940-70 ; 1970-90 (focus: The new Russian avant-garde)
Summary: Survey of the arts and ideas of Western Civilization from Paleolithic times to the present
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [550]-553) and index.


pt. 1. Beginnings : European prehistory ; Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (focus: The tomb of Tutankhamun)
pt. 2. Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, & Byzantium : Ancient Greece ; Ancient Rome (focus: The Laocoon) ; Judaism and Christianity ; Byzantium
pt. 3. The Middle Ages : The early Middle Ages (focus: An Anglo-Saxon chieftain's regalia ; The Emperor Charlemagne ; Monastic life : life at Cluny) ; The late Middle Ages (focus: The Black Death) ; Transition to the modern world : Northern Europe
pt. 4. The Renaissance : Humanism in Italy (focus: The early Medici) ; The Italian High Renaissance ; The Reformation ; Mannerism (focus: The royal icon)
pt. 5. The Baroque : The Baroque in Italy ; Spain and Flanders (focus: The conquest of Mexico) ; French classicism (focus: Louis XIV and absolutism) ; Protestant Baroque (focus: Rembrandt's self-portraits). pt. 6. The eighteenth century : The rococo (focus: Madame de Pompadour) ; The middle class ; The Enlightenment (focus: Catherine the Great) ; The cult of nature and the cult of feeling
pt. 7. Romanticism & the nineteenth century : The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire (focus: The British in India) ; Romanticism (focus: The legend of Paganini) ; Realism ; Symbolism (focus: The arts and crafts movement)
pt. 8. The modern age : The birth of modernism (focus: African art and cubism) ; Armageddon and the interwar culture in Europe ; The rise of America (focus: The cinema) ; Europe 1940-70 ; 1970-90 (focus: The new Russian avant-garde)

Survey of the arts and ideas of Western Civilization from Paleolithic times to the present

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