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Arts & ideas / Mary Warner Marien, William Fleming.

By: Marien, Mary Warner.
Contributor(s): Fleming, William, 1909-2001. Arts & ideas.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Belmont, CA, USA : Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005Edition: 10th ed.Description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), col. maps, music ; 28 cm.ISBN: 0534613713 ; 0534613810 .Other title: Arts and ideas | Fleming's arts & ideas [Cover title].Subject(s): Arts -- HistoryDDC classification: 700.9
Contents:
Origins of western art -- Part One: Classical period: Athens in the fifth century BCE -- Hellenistic style -- Roman style -- Part Two: After Rome: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval styles -- Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic styles -- Romanesque style -- Gothic style -- International styles in the late Medieval period -- Part Three: Renaissance and Reformation -- Florentine Renaissance style -- Roman Renaissance style -- Northern Renaissance and Reformation styles -- The Venetian Renaissance and the rise of international mannerism -- Part Four: Counter-Reformation, Baroque, and seventeenth-century styles -- From counter-Reformation to Baroque -- Aristocratic Baroque style in France and England -- Bourgeois Baroque style -- The Enlightenment -- Part Five: Revolutionary period -- Neoclassicism: Style and reaction -- Romantic style -- Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism -- Twentieth-century Modernism, Part I: Art prior to World War I -- Twentieth-century Modernism, Part II: Art between the World Wars -- Midtwentieth-century styles -- Into a new millennium.
Summary: A top-seller since it first published in 1955, Fleming's Arts and Ideas chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present. New author Mary Warner Marien continues the text's tradition of combining outstanding scholarship with high quality art reproductions, while at the same time bringing a new contemporary voice to this classic text. Fleming's Arts and Ideas challenges students to see the links between common purposes, themes, and ideas in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy.
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A top-seller since it first published in 1955, FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present. New author Mary Warner Marien continues the text's tradition of combining outstanding scholarship with high quality art reproductions, while at the same time bringing a new contemporary voice to this classic text. FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS challenges students to see the links between common purposes, themes, and ideas in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy.

Rev. ed. of: Arts & ideas / William Fleming. 9th ed. 1995.

Includes index.

Origins of western art -- Part One: Classical period: Athens in the fifth century BCE -- Hellenistic style -- Roman style -- Part Two: After Rome: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval styles -- Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic styles -- Romanesque style -- Gothic style -- International styles in the late Medieval period -- Part Three: Renaissance and Reformation -- Florentine Renaissance style -- Roman Renaissance style -- Northern Renaissance and Reformation styles -- The Venetian Renaissance and the rise of international mannerism -- Part Four: Counter-Reformation, Baroque, and seventeenth-century styles -- From counter-Reformation to Baroque -- Aristocratic Baroque style in France and England -- Bourgeois Baroque style -- The Enlightenment -- Part Five: Revolutionary period -- Neoclassicism: Style and reaction -- Romantic style -- Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism -- Twentieth-century Modernism, Part I: Art prior to World War I -- Twentieth-century Modernism, Part II: Art between the World Wars -- Midtwentieth-century styles -- Into a new millennium.

A top-seller since it first published in 1955, Fleming's Arts and Ideas chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present. New author Mary Warner Marien continues the text's tradition of combining outstanding scholarship with high quality art reproductions, while at the same time bringing a new contemporary voice to this classic text. Fleming's Arts and Ideas challenges students to see the links between common purposes, themes, and ideas in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy.

CIT Module ARCH 6047- Supplementary reading

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 Onward into the Past
  • Part 1 The Ancient World
  • 2 Athens in the Fifth Century B.C.E
  • 3 Hellenistic Style
  • 4 Roman Style
  • Part 2 Early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval Styles
  • 5 Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Styles
  • 6 Romanesque Style
  • 7 Gothic Style
  • 8 International Styles in the Late Medieval Period
  • Part 3 Renaissance and Reformation
  • 9 Florentine Renaissance Style
  • 10 Roman Renaissance Style
  • 11 Northern Renaissance and Reformation Style
  • 12 The Venetian Renaissance and the Rise of International Mannerism
  • Part 4 Counter-Reformation, Baroque, and the Seventeenth Century Styles
  • 13 Counter-Reformation to Baroque
  • 14 Aristocracy Baroque Style in France and England
  • 15 Bourgeois Baroque Style
  • 16 The Enlightenment
  • Part 5 The Revolutionary Period
  • 17 Neoclassicism: Style and Reaction
  • 18 Romantic Style
  • 19 Realism, Impressionism, Post-impressionism, and Symbolism
  • 20 Twentieth-Century Modernism,
  • Part I Art Prior to World War I
  • 21 Twentieth-Century Modernism,
  • Part II Art Between the World Wars
  • 22 Mid-Twentieth-Century Styles
  • 23 Into a New Millennium.