Annotated Mona Lisa, The - Strickland, Carol [0]
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
PHOTO CREDITS
Introduction
The Birth of Art: - Prehistoric Through Medieval
PREHISTORIC ART: THE BEGINNING
MESOPOTAMIA: THE ARCHITECTS
EGYPT: THE ART OF IMMORTALITY
GREECE: THEY INVENTED A LOT MORE THAN THE OLYMPICS
ROME: THE ORGANIZERS
THE COLOSSEUM
POMPEII: A CITY TURNED TO CARBON
PRE-COLUMBIAN ART OF THE AMERICAS: NEW WORLD ART WHEN IT WAS STILL AN OLD WORLD
AFRICAN ART: THE FIRST CUBISTS
THE MIDDLE AGES: THE REIGN OF RELIGION
GOLDEN AGE OF BYZANTINE ART
ROMANESQUE ART: STORIES IN STONE
GOTHIC ART: HEIGHT AND LIGHT
The Rebirth of Art: Renaissance and Baroque
THE RENAISSANCE: THE BEGINNING OF MODERN PAINTING
THE TOP FOUR BREAKTHROUGHS
THE EARLY RENAISSANCE: THE FIRST THREE HALL-OF-FAMERS
THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
THE RENAISSANCE IN THE LOW COUNTRIES
THE GERMAN RENAISSANCE
MANNERISM AND THE LATE RENAISSANCE
THE SPANISH RENAISSANCE
BAROQUE: THE ORNATE AGE
ITALIAN BAROQUE
FLEMISH BAROQUE
DUTCH BAROQUE
ENGLISH BAROQUE
SPANISH BAROQUE
FRENCH BAROQUE
ROCOCO
The Nineteenth Century: Birth of the “Isms”
NEOCLASSICISM : ROMAN FEVER
FRENCH NEOCLASSICISM
AMERICAN NEOCLASSICISM
GOYA: MAN WITHOUT AN “ISM”
ROMANTICISM: THE POWER OF PASSION
FRENCH ROMANTICISM
ENGLISH ROMANTICISM
AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
GENRE PAINTING: THE AMERICAN DREAM IN ACTION
REALISM
FRENCH REALISM
AMERICAN REALISM
ARCHITECTURE FOR THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
ART NOUVEAU
BIRTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY
IMPRESSIONISM: LET THERE BE COLOR AND LIGHT
SUPPORTING CAST
RODIN: FIRST MODERN SCULPTOR
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
THE POST-IMPRESSIONIST ROUNDUP
EARLY EXPRESSIONISM
SYMBOLISM
THE BIRTH OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
The Twentieth Century: Modern Art
FAUVISM: EXPLODING COLOR
TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCULPTURE: A NEW LOOK
TWIN TITANS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: MATISSE AND PICASSO
HARBINGER OF CUBISM: “LES DESMOISELLES D’AVIGNON.”
CUBISM
MODERNISM OUTSIDE OF FRANCE
FUTURISM
CONSTRUCTIVISM: SEEING RED.
PRECISIONISM: MODERNISM IN AMERICA.
EXPRESSIONISM: THE FINE ART OF FEELING
MONDRIAN: HARMONY OF OPPOSITES
MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE: GEOMETRY TO LIVE IN
DADA AND SURREALISM: ART BETWEEN THE WARS
PHOTOGRAPHY COMES OF AGE
AMERICAN ART: 1908-40
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
FIGURAL EXPRESSIONISM: NOT JUST A PRETTY FACE
POSTWAR SCULPTURE
COLOR FIELD
The Twentieth Century and Beyond: Contemporary Art
HARD EDGE
PRE-POP ART
POP ART
MINIMALISM: THE COOL SCHOOL
CONCEPTUAL ART: INVISIBLE VISUAL ART
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
PHOTOGRAPHY: WHAT’S NEW
PHOTO-REALISM
NEO-EXPRESSIONISM
THE NEW BREED: POST-MODERN ART
INDEX
In memory of my Mother and Father, Rebecca and John Colclough
To the families in New Orleans and Memphis, thanks for your encouragement. And to Sid, Alison, and Eliza, special gratitude for your enthusiasm when it began to seem the adage “Vita brevis est, ars longa” was all too true.
— C.S.
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The Annotated Mona Lisa copyright © 1992 by John Boswell Management, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the context of reviews. For information, write Andrews and McMeel, a Universal Press Syndicate Company, 4520 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Strickland, Carol.
The annotated Mona Lisa: a crash course in art history from prehistoric to post-modern/Carol Strickland and John Boswell.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8362-8009-1. — ISBN 0-8362-8005-9 (paperback)
1. Art — History — Outlines, syllabi, etc. I. Boswell, John, 1943-. II. Title.
N5302.S76 1992
709 dc20 92-27904
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