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A world history of art / Hugh Honour and John Fleming.

By: Honour, Hugh [author].
Contributor(s): Fleming, John, 1919-2001 [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Laurence King Publishing, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: Sixth edition.Description: 960 pages : colour illustrations ; 31 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1856693147 (hardback); 1856693155 (paperback).Subject(s): Art -- HistoryDDC classification: 709
Contents:
Introduction -- Part One: Foundations of Art -- Before History -- The early civilizations -- Developments across the continents -- The Greeks and their neighbours -- Hellenistic and Roman art -- Part Two: Art and the world religions -- Buddhism, Hinduism and Far Eastern Art -- Early christian and byzantine art -- Early Islamic art -- Part Three: Sacred and Secular Art -- Medieval Christendom -- The fifteenth century in Europe -- The sixteenth century in Europe -- The Americas, Africa and Asia -- The seventeenth century in Europe -- Enlightenment and Liberty -- Part Four: The making of the modern world -- Romanticism to realism -- Eastern Traditions -- Impressionism to post-impressionism -- Indigenous Arts of Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania -- Part Five: Twentieth-Century Art -- Art from 1900 to 1919 -- Between the two world wars -- Post-war to post-modern -- Continuity and change: The Twilight of the second millennium.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Reference MTU Bishopstown Library Reference 709 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 00095104
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 709 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00095083
Reference MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Reference 709 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference 00232700
Total holds: 0

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A World History of Art is widely regarded as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging history ever published in a single volume. This new edition has been enlarged and redesigned giving it a more contemporary, 'open' look. The coverage of art has been expanded right into the twenty-first century, with the addition of 34 new images of contemporary art. Three new urban development boxes have been added on the ancient Greek, medieval and contemporary city. The coverage of African art has been rewritten and new images added to reflect current thinking. Elegantly and fluently written, the authors present art history as an essential part of the development of humankind, beginning their account with a 30,000-year old statuette and ending with art that is concerned with contemporary society's dependence on the spectacle. The volume covers painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture and photography.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 933-941) and index.

Introduction -- Part One: Foundations of Art -- Before History -- The early civilizations -- Developments across the continents -- The Greeks and their neighbours -- Hellenistic and Roman art -- Part Two: Art and the world religions -- Buddhism, Hinduism and Far Eastern Art -- Early christian and byzantine art -- Early Islamic art -- Part Three: Sacred and Secular Art -- Medieval Christendom -- The fifteenth century in Europe -- The sixteenth century in Europe -- The Americas, Africa and Asia -- The seventeenth century in Europe -- Enlightenment and Liberty -- Part Four: The making of the modern world -- Romanticism to realism -- Eastern Traditions -- Impressionism to post-impressionism -- Indigenous Arts of Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania -- Part Five: Twentieth-Century Art -- Art from 1900 to 1919 -- Between the two world wars -- Post-war to post-modern -- Continuity and change: The Twilight of the second millennium.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Patrick Hugh Honour was born in Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom on September 26, 1927. He received a bachelor's degree in 18th-century English literature from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. In the mid-1950's, he started writing and editing with John Fleming. For Penguin Books, they edited the series Style and Civilization. They also edited two more series for Penguin: Architect and Society and Art in Context. Together they wrote The Visual Arts: A History, The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, and The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture with Nikolaus Pevsner.

Honour wrote several books on his own including Horace Walpole, Chinoiserie: A Vision of Cathay, The Companion Guide to Venice, Romanticism, The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the American Revolution to World War I, and The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler, and Sargent. Honour organized the traveling exhibition The European Vision of America for the United States Bicentennial in 1976. As a companion to the exhibition, he wrote The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time. He died on May 19, 2016 at the 88.

(Bowker Author Biography)