The visual arts
Subtitle: a history
By: Hugh Honour & John Fleming
Contributors: Fleming, John, 1919-2001, author
Edition: Revised seventh edition.
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 984
ISBN-13: 9781780671178
Subjects: Art; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 950-959) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Foundations of art; title: 1. Before history; title: 2. The early civilization; title: 3. Developments across the continents; title: The Greeks and their neighbours; title: Hellenistic and Roman art; title: Part II. Art and the world religions; title: 6. Buddhism, Hinduism and the arts of South and East Asia; title: 7. Early Christian and Byzantine art; title: 8. Early Islamic art; title: Part III. Sacred and secular art. 9. Medieval Christendom; title: 10. The fifteenth century in Europe; title: 11. The sixteenth century in Europe; title: 12. The Americas, Africa and Asia; title: 13. The seventeenth century in Europe; title: 14. Enlightenment and liberty; title: Part IV. The making of the modern world; title: 15. Romanticism to realism; title: 16. Eastern traditions; title: 17. Impressionism to post-impressionism; title: 18. Indigenous arts of Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania; title: Part V. Twentieth-century art and beyond; title: 19. Art from 1900 to 1919; title: 20. Between the two world wars; title: 21. Post-war to post-modern; title: 22. Into the third millennium.