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ISBN 10: 0641731876
ISBN 13: 978-0060530754
Author: Paul Johnson
In Art: A New History, Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a world historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period of art. Taking account of changing scholarship and shifting opinions, he draws our attention to a number of neglected artists and styles, especially in Scandinavia, Germany, Russia and the Americas.
Paul Johnson puts the creative originality of the individual at the heart of his story. He pays particular attention to key periods: the emergence of the artistic personality in the Renaissance, the new realism of the early seventeenth century, the discovery of landscape painting as a separate art form, and the rise of ideological art. He notes the division of ‘fashion art’ and fine art at the beginning of the twentieth century, and how it has now widened.
Though challenging and controversial, Paul Johnson is not primarily a revisionist. He is a passionate lover of beauty who finds creativity in many places. With 300 colour illustrations, this book is vivid, evocative and immensely readable, whether the author is describing the beauty of Egyptian low-relief carving or the medieval cathedrals of Europe, the watercolours of Thomas Girtin or the utility of Roman bridges (‘the best bridges in history’), the genius of Andrew Wyeth or the tranquility of the Great Mosque at Damascus, the paintings of Ilya Repin or a carpet-page from the Lindisfarne Gospels. The warmth and enthusiasm of Paul Johnson’s descriptions will send readers hurrying off to see these wonders for themselves.
Table of contents:
1 Painted Caves and Giant Stones
Early cave and rock art The first professional artists Its mysterious purposes Megalithic art Carnac and Stonehenge The desire for a sense of order
2 Ancient Egypt and the Origins of Style
First cultures in the ancient Middle East The emergence of Egyptian civilisation Hieroglyphs and the invention of style The mastery of stone-carving Art, communication and the canonical code. Learning how to look at Egyptian art
3 Palace Art in the Ancient Near East
Mesopotamian empires of Babylonians and Assyrians Ziggurats. The great Persian kings Persepolis The palace civilisations of Mycenaean Greece and Minoan Crete
4 Greek Art: Idealism Versus Realism
The city, not the palace, the key unit The Phoenicians. Carthage. Evolution of the Greek temple Greek sculpture: archaic, classical and Hellenistic The search for realism Painted vases
5 Rome: An Art Set in Concrete
Etruscan forerunners The discovery of concrete The best bridges in history Domes and arches Sophisticated plumbing. Low status of visual artists Constantine, monotheism and artistic decline
6 Monotheism: Basilica, Mosque and Tomb
The first basilica churches St Sophia Mosaics: Ravenna, Sicily, Venice Icons and iconoclasm Armenian churches Islam
and the first mosques Koca Sinan, Islam’s greatest architect.
Alhambra: water and garden art Isfahan
The Taj Mahal
7 Dynamics of the Dark Age North
The first great manuscripts: Durrow, Lindisfarne, Kells Carolingian scripts The Church, chief patron of the arts Church furnishings, equipment and decoration Monks and monasteries Cluny Norman castles and cathedrals Engineering revolution at Durham
8 The Climax of Cathedral Art
Significance of the medieval cathedral Abbot Suger and the
abbey of St Denis Stained glass Chartres Bourges
cathedrals Spanish and German cathedrals The importance
English
of accidents: Ely and Gloucester Carcassonne Dijon.
Ghent and Bruges
9 The Rise of Creative Individualism Under Christianity
Bayeux Tapestry. The advance in realism: Naumburg figures.
Claus Closes
Gregor Erhart and Bernt Notke
Van Eyck Bosch
Gutenberg: movable type and the spread of printing Dürer
10 Rediscovery and Transformation of Graeco-Roman Culture
Why the Renaissance started in Italy Florence: Brunelleschi and
the dome
Alberti
Bramante
Building big: St Peter’s.
Michelangelo as architect
Venice: Palladio’s townscapes and villas
11 The Apotheosis of the Statue
Nicola Pisano Ghiberti’s Florence Baptistry doors Donatello. Verrocchio and his workshop The sculpture of Michelangelo Cellini
12 The Great Masters of Italian Painting
The beginnings of perspective Difficulties of fresco-painting.
Italian hostility to oil-painting
Cimabue and Giotto Masaccio
Mantegna Piero della Francesca Botticelli The end of
Florence’s Golden Age
13 The Roman Climax of Art and Its Confused Aftermath
Raphael Leonardo Michelangelo The Venetian school. Titian and the beginnings of international art Tintoretto Correggio Grünewald, Altdorfer and other northern artists Holbein Breugel. The spread of Italian art
14 The New Realism of the Seventeenth Century
Caravaggio and a new kind of realism The Carracci family Guido Reni Decoration of church and palace
Guercino
15 The First Great Landscape Paintings
16 The Golden Century of Spanish Art
17 The Dutch Attain ‘The Perfection of Professional Art’
Rubens
Van Dyck
Poussin
Claud Lorraine
Salvator Rosa
The Spanish world empire
The arts of the Aztecs and the Incas
Mayan art Spanish
architecture in Latin America
The Escorial
Ribera
Velázquez
Zurbarán and Murillo
The new realism: Jordaens and La Tour
Franz Hals
Rembrandt
Dou Vermeer
De Hooch and Jan Steen
Saenredam.
Ruisdael and Cuyp
Dutch sea-painting
18 Towns, Palaces, Churches, Gardens
Bernini: transforming Rome
Louis XIV, patron of the arts
Versailles: Le Brun and Le Nôtre
Wren and the rebuilding of
London Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh
19 Splendours and Mysteries of the Eighteenth Century
Watteau
Boucher
Chardin
Fragonard
Tiepolo
Look
and Canaletto
Austrian and Sicilian Baroque
Civic elegance:
Nancy and Bath
English country-house culture
Robert Adam’s
Edinburgh
Hogarth
Royal academies
Reynolds and Ramsay
Stubbs
Gainsborough
20 Classical and Religious Revival
21 The Western Penetration of Asia: India, China, Japan and Their Art
0
The revival of classicism: Canova, David and Ingres
Classical
revival in architecture
The first modern museums
Goya
European discovery of the East
Importing Asian artistic styles
. Chinese bronzes,
Indian temple art The
Chinese hierarchy of arts
calligraphy and porcelain
Korean art
Japanese art
Hokusai
22 The Watercolour and Its Global Spread
23 Romanticism and History
A British school emerges
Blake
I got it
Cotman and Cox.
Bonington Turner
Constable
Delacroix
Austrian
watercolourists
Americans: Whistler, Homer, Sargent and Prendergast
German romantic art
Viollet-le-Duc and Gilbert Scott
Pugin and
the revival of Gothic The Pre-Raphaelites
Rossetti, Hunt and Millais.
Morris and Burne-Jones
The Arts and Crafts movement
24 Painting the American World and Its Wonders
Cole
Durand
Church
Bierstadt
Homer
Eakins Going
European: Whistler, Cassatt and Sargent
25 The Belated Arrival and Sombre Glories of Russian Art
Surikov Aivazovsky Painting the forest: Shishkin and Levitan Repin Canadian and Australian painting
26 The Internal Conflicts of Nineteenth-Century Art
Social realism: Daumier, Millet and Courbet
Manet: the gift of
the image Degas Toulouse-Lautrec Realists of provincial
France
Pissarro, Renoir and Monet
Cézanne
Van Gogh
27 Art and the Realities of the Industrialised World
English and French realism Zorn, Menzel and Liebermann
The Newlyn school Munch and Nolde Rodin
Vuillard and
Bonnard Nudity as inspiration for Fin-de-siècle artists
28 Skyscrapers, Art Nouveau, Art Deco
Palatial homes: the exuberance of American wealth The skyscraper.
Art Nouveau, an international style Tiffany, Beardsley, Gaudí. Art Nouveau becomes Art Deco Craftsmanship in new materials
and colours
29 The Beginnings of Fashion Art
Fashion, novelty and art in 1900s Paris Picasso Cubism, the first major example of fashion art Picasso and Matisse Abstract art.
Klee, Mondrian and Moore
Surrealism and Dalí
English
Rockwell
traditionalism: Lutyens American realism Hopper
30 The Resurgence of the Primitive
Gauguin Tattooing and body art in New Zealand and Australia Body art in Africa Native American art The African mask.
Benin bronzes and ivories Modern attitudes to primitive art
31 The Rule and Ravages of Ideological Art
Gropius and Bauhaus Le Corbusier Futurism and Italian fascism
Superb railway stations The failure of Nazi arts policy Art in
Soviet Russia Architecture 1940-1970: a lamentable period
The end of the Modern movement
32 The Dangers and Opportunities of Twenty-first-Century Art
Leadership moves to the USA Pollock, Johns, Rauschenberg and
Warhol Wyeth Fitful resurgence of realism Commercial reasons for the success of fashion art Return of the skyscraper. Great roads, stations and bridges Hollywood and Disney.
Art gardening Wealth-into-art: conservation, historians,
books and museums
Looking forwards
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