The story of art.
Edition: [4th ed., rev.]
Publisher: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Oxford University Press
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Art -- History.; Art -- Histoire.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : on art and artists; title: Strange beginnings : prehistoric and primitive peoples ; ancient America; title: Art for eternity : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete; title: The great awakening : Greece, seventh to fifth century B.C.; title: The realm of beauty : Greece and the Greek world, fourth century B.C. to first century A.D.; title: World conquerors : Romans, Bhuddhists, Jews, and Christians, first to fourth century A.D.; title: A parting of ways : Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century; title: Looking eastwards : Islam, China, second to thirteenth century; title: Western art in the melting pot : Europe, sixth to eleventh century; title: The church militant : the twelfth century; title: The church triumphant : the thirteenth century; title: Courtiers and burghers : the fourteenth century; title: The conquest of reality : the early fifteenth century; title: Tradition and innovation : the later fifteenth century in Italy; title: Tradition and innovation : the fifteenth century in the North; title: Harmony attained : Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century; title: Light and colour : Venice and northern Italy in the early sixteenth century; title: The new learning spreads : Germany and the Netherlands in the early sixteenth century; title: A crisis of art : Europe, later sixteenth century; title: Vision and visions : Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century; title: The mirror of nature : Holland in the seventeenth century; title: Power and glory : Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; title: Power and glory : France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; title: The age of reason : England and France, eighteenth century; title: The break in tradition : England, America, and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; title: Revolution in permanence : the nineteenth century; title: In search of new standards : the late nineteenth century; title: Experimental art : the twentieth century.