03283cam a2200385 i 4500 559419040 TxAuBib 20220526120000.0 u 220207s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022932309 9781119868668 paperback $34.99 1119868661 paperback $34.99 TxAuBib rda Wilder, Jesse B,. Art History For Dummies / Jesse Bryant Wilder, MA, MAT. Art History. Second edition. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2022. xv, 429 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent z rdamedia zu rdacarrier For dummies Includes index. Getting started with art history -- Art tour through the ages -- Why people make art and what it all means -- The major artistic movements -- From caves to colosseum: ancient art -- Magical hunters and psychedelic cave artists -- Fickle gods, warrior art, and the birth of writing: Mesopotamian art -- One foot in the tomb: Ancient Egyptian art -- Greek art, the Olympian ego, and the inventors of the modern world -- Etruscan and Roman art: it's all Greek to me! -- Art after the fall of Rome: AD 500-AD 1760 -- The graven image: early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic art -- Mystics, marauders, and manuscripts: medieval art -- Born-again culture: the early and high renaissance -- Venetian renaissance, late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the north -- Art that'll stretch your neck: mannerism -- When the renaissance went Baroque -- Going loco with Rococo -- The industrial revolution revs up art's evolution: 1760-1900 -- All roads lead back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical art -- Romanticism: reaching within and acting out -- What you see is what you get: realism -- First impressions: Impressionism -- Making their own impression: the Post-Impressionists -- Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art -- Fromm Fauvism to Expressionism -- Cubist puzzles and finding the fast lane with the Futurists -- Nonobjective art: Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism -- Anything-goes art: fab fifties and psychedelic sixties -- Photography: from science to art -- The new world: Postmodern art -- The part of tens -- ten must-see art museums -- Ten great books by ten great artists. Art History For Dummies is a time machine that guides you through the most beautiful, shocking, and influential moments in the history of human creativity. You'll learn your Picasso from your Warhol, your Realism from your Rococo - and we'll help you figure out why it all matters, anyway. In this new edition, you'll discover more female artists, the Harlem Renaissance, and additional prominent art movements. Take a deep dive into art history with this full-color book, and impress your friends with how knowledgeable you've become. 20220529. Art History. Art. For dummies.