Record details

• ISBN: 0717273563
• ISBN: 9780717273560
• Physical Description: 10 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
• Edition: Rev. ed.
• Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Grolier Incorporated, 1994, ©1965.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

All volumes include selected bibliographical references, volume 10 includes general glossary, and general index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Volume 1. Origins of Western art ; Imperial Roman art / Donald E. Strong -- Early Christian art / Giuseppe Bovini -- The eastern Roman empire / David Talbot Rice -- Western Europe to the eleventh century / Peter Lasko -- Romanesque art / G. Zarnecki -- Gothic art / George Henderson -- Volume 2. Italian art to 1850 / edited by M. Monteverdi ; Introduction -- Biographies -- Color plates -- Drawings -- Sculpture -- Influences and development -- Volume 3. Flemish and Dutch art / edited by A.M. Hammacher and R. Hammacher Vandenbrande ; Introduction -- Biographies -- Color plates -- Drawings -- Sculpture -- Influences and development -- Volume 4. German and Spanish art to 1900 / edited by Horst Vey and Xavier de Salas ; German art ; Introduction -- Biographies -- Color plates -- Drawings -- Sculpture -- Influences and development -- Spanish art ; Introduction -- Biographies -- Color plates -- Drawings -- Sculpture -- Influences and development -- Volume 5. French art from 1350 to 1850 / edited by Michel Laclotte ; Introduction -- Biographies -- Color plates -- Drawings -- Sculpture -- Influences and development -- Volume 6. British and North American art to 1900 / edited by Kenneth Garlick ; Introduction -- Biographies -- Color plates -- Drawings -- Sculpture -- Influences and development -- Volume 7. Impressionists and post-impressionists / edited by Alan Bowness ; Introduction -- Biographies -- Color plates -- Drawings -- Sculpture -- Influences and development --

Volume 8. Modern art : from Fauvism to abstract expressionism / edited by David Sylvester ; Introduction -- Biographies -- Color plates -- Drawings -- Sculpture -- Influences and development -- Volume 9. Chinese and Japanese art / by Michael Sullivan ; Chinese art ; The beginning of Chinese art -- Buddhist painting -- Courtly figure painting : T'ang, five dynasties, and northern Sung periods -- Landscape painting reaches maturity -- The southern Sung academy -- Zen painting -- The Yüan dynasty : reaction and withdrawal -- Trends in Ming painting -- The Ch'ing dynasty -- Japanese art ; The beginning of Japanese art -- Yamato-e -- Painting in monochrome ink -- Momoyama, 1573-1615 : the age of the great decorators -- Art under the Tokugawa -- Color plates -- Monochrome plates -- Influences and developments -- Volume 10. How to look at art / Bernard Myers ; Introduction -- Art is found everywhere -- The artist in a primitive society -- The artist as philosopher -- The artist as critic and moralist -- The painter as dreamer and prophet -- The artist as recorder of his time -- The artist as entertainer -- Art and emotion -- Art and style -- Art and beauty -- Art and realism -- Renaissance time and perspective -- Renaissance painting and light -- Impressionism and post-impressionism -- Cézanne and the cubists -- The mass production of works of art -- Fine arts and graphic design -- Abstract art -- Expression and abstraction -- Art and us.

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