SmartHistory of Art

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Smarthistory
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Humanities, Art
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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Prehistoric
  7. 1.1: Paleolithic
  8. 1.1.1: Paleolithic art, an introduction
  9. 1.1.2: Our earliest technology?
  10. 1.1.3: Apollo 11 Cave Stones
  11. 1.1.4: Venus of Willendorf
  12. 1.1.5: Hall of Bulls, Lascaux
  13. 1.2: Neolithic
  14. 1.2.1: The Neolithic revolution
  15. 1.2.2: Jericho
  16. 1.2.3: Bushel with ibex motifs
  17. 1.2.4: Çatalhöyük
  18. 1.2.5: Stonehenge
  19. 1.2.6: Nuragic architecture at Su Nuraxi Barumini, Sardinia
  20. 1.2.7: Anthropomorphic stele
  21. 1.2.8: Jade Cong
  22. 1.2.9: Running Horned Woman, Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria
  23. 1.2.10: Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus (Libya)
  24. 1.2.11: Rock Art in the Green Sahara (Neolithic)
  25. 2: Ancient Mediterranean
  26. 2.1: Palmyra
  27. 2.2: Ancient Near East
  28. 2.3: Ancient Egypt
  29. 2.4: Ancient Aegean
  30. 2.5: Ancient Greece
  31. 2.6: Nabataean
  32. 2.7: Etruscan
  33. 2.8: Ancient Rome I
  34. 2.9: Ancient Rome II
  35. 2.10: Ancient Rome III
  36. 3: The Islamic World
  37. 3.1: A beginner's guide
  38. 3.2: Early period
  39. 3.3: Medieval period
  40. 3.4: Later period
  41. 4: Africa
  42. 4.1: A beginner's guide
  43. 4.2: East Africa and the Horn of Africa
  44. 4.3: West Africa
  45. 4.4: Central Africa
  46. 4.5: North Africa
  47. 4.6: Southern Africa
  48. 5: Asia
  49. 5.1: A brief history of the cultures of Asia
  50. 5.2: Hinduism + Buddhism
  51. 5.3: China
  52. 5.4: Japan
  53. 5.5: Korea
  54. 5.6: Afghanistan
  55. 5.7: South Asia (I)
  56. 5.8: South Asia (II)
  57. 5.9: Southeast Asia
  58. 5.10: The Himalayas
  59. 6: Medieval Europe + Byzantine
  60. 6.1: A beginner's guide
  61. 6.2: Christianity and art
  62. 6.3: Judaism and art
  63. 6.4: Books in Medieval Europe
  64. 6.5: Early Christian
  65. 6.6: Byzantine
  66. 6.7: Early Medieval
  67. 6.8: Carolingian
  68. 6.9: Ottonian
  69. 6.10: Viking Age
  70. 6.11: Romanesque
  71. 6.12: Gothic
  72. 6.13: The Crusades
  73. 7: Europe 1300 - 1800
  74. 7.1: A beginner's guide to the Renaissance
  75. 7.2: Italy and Spain in the 14th century- Late Gothic
  76. 7.3: Printmaking in Europe, c. 1400−1800
  77. 7.4: Italy in the 15th century- Early Renaissance (I)
  78. 7.5: Italy in the 15th century- Early Renaissance (II)
  79. 7.6: Italy in the 16th century- High Renaissance and Mannerism (I)
  80. 7.7: Italy in the 16th century- High Renaissance and Mannerism (II)
  81. 7.8: Northern Europe in the 15th century- Northern Renaissance
  82. 7.9: Northern Europe in the 16th century- Renaissance and Mannerism
  83. 7.10: Spain in the 15th and 16th centuries- Renaissance
  84. 7.11: Reformation and Counter-Reformation
  85. 7.12: 17th century- Baroque (I)
  86. 7.13: 17th century- Baroque (II)
  87. 7.14: c. 1700 - 1775- Rococo
  88. 7.15: Late 18th century- Neoclassicism
  89. 7.16: Britain in the 18th century
  90. 8: Europe 1800 - 1900
  91. 8.1: Becoming Modern, an introduction
  92. 8.2: Romanticism
  93. 8.3: Early photography
  94. 8.4: Victorian art
  95. 8.5: Realism
  96. 8.6: Second Empire
  97. 8.7: Impressionism
  98. 8.8: Post-Impressionism
  99. 8.9: Sculpture
  100. 8.10: Symbolism / Art Nouveau
  101. 8.11: Peredvizhniki
  102. 9: Oceania
  103. 9.1: Terracotta fragments, Lapita people
  104. 9.2: What is the impact and legacy of Cook’s voyages?
  105. 9.3: Polynesia
  106. 9.4: Melanesia
  107. 9.5: Micronesia
  108. 9.6: Australia
  109. 10: Modernisms 1900 – 1980
  110. 10.1: A beginner's guide
  111. 10.2: Key concepts
  112. 10.3: Fauvism + Expressionism
  113. 10.4: Cubism + early abstraction (I)
  114. 10.5: Cubism + early abstraction (II)
  115. 10.6: Dada and Surrealism (I)
  116. 10.7: Dada and Surrealism (II)
  117. 10.8: German art between the wars
  118. 10.9: Latin American Modernism
  119. 10.10: American art to World War II
  120. 10.11: Postwar American art (I)
  121. 10.12: Postwar American art (II)
  122. 10.13: Postwar European art
  123. 10.14: Conceptual + Performance Art
  124. 10.15: Post-Minimalism
  125. 10.16: Global vanguards
  126. 10.17: Architecture and design
  127. 11: The Americas to 1900
  128. 11.1: A beginner's guide
  129. 11.2: North America before c. 1500
  130. 11.3: North America c. 1500 - 1900 (I)
  131. 11.4: North America c. 1500 - 1900 (II)
  132. 11.5: South America before c. 1500
  133. 11.6: South America c. 1500 - 1900
  134. 12: Global cultures 1980 - now
  135. 12.1: A beginner's guide
  136. 12.2: Appropriation and ideological critique
  137. 12.3: Identity and the body
  138. 12.4: Banality and Kitsch
  139. 12.5: Ritual, spirituality, and transcendence
  140. 12.6: Histories, real and imagined
  141. 13: Art that brings U.S. history to life
  142. 13.1: American and National identity
  143. 13.2: Work, exchange, and technology
  144. 13.3: Geography and the environment
  145. 13.4: Migration and settlement
  146. 13.5: Politics and power
  147. 13.6: American and regional culture
  148. 13.7: Social structures
  149. 13.8: America in the World
  150. 14: At-risk Cultural Heritage Education Series (ARCHES)
  151. 14.1: A beginner's guide
  152. 14.2: Whose art? Museums and repatriation
  153. 14.3: Ruins, reconstruction, and renewal
  154. 14.4: Place and identity
  155. 14.5: The many forms of iconoclasm
  156. 14.6: Destruction, looting, and trafficking
  157. 14.7: Documenting and protecting cultural heritage
  158. 14.8: The role of archaeology
  159. 14.9: Cultural heritage endangered round the world
  160. 14.10: What you can do now
  161. 14.11: ARCHES advisors
  162. Back Matter
  163. Index
  164. Glossary
  165. Glossary
  166. Detailed Licensing