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100 1 $aJohnson, Paul,$d1928-
245 10 $aArt :$ba new history /$cPaul Johnson.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$cc2003.
300 $ax, 777 p. :$bill. (chiefly col.), ports. ;$c26 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aPainted caves and giant stones -- Ancient Egypt and the origins of style -- Palace art in the ancient Near East -- Greek art: idealism versus realism -- Rome: an art set in concrete -- Monotheism: basilica, mosque and tomb -- Dynamics of the Dark Age North -- The climax of cathedral art -- The rise of creative individualism under Christianity -- Rediscovery and transformation of Graeco-Roman culture -- The apotheosis of the statue -- The great masters of Italian painting -- The Roman climax of art and its confused aftermath -- The new realism of the seventeenth century -- The first great landscape paintings -- The golden century of Spanish art -- The Dutch attain 'the perfection of professional art' -- Towns, palaces, churches, gardens -- Splendours and mysteries of the eighteenth century -- Classical and religious revival -- The Western penetration of Asia: India, China, Japan and their art -- The watercolour and its global spread -- Romanticism and history -- Painting the American world and its wonders -- The belated arrival and sombre glories of Russian art -- The internal conflicts of nineteenth-century art -- Art and the realities of the industrialised world -- Skyscrapers, Art Nouveau, Art Deco -- The beginnings of fashion art -- The resurgence of the primitive -- The rule and ravages of ideological art -- The dangers and opportunities of twenty-first-century art.
650 0 $aArt$xHistory.
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906 $0OCLC