Art across the ages
Presents a course in Western visual art that serves as both a mind-broadening survey and an essential introduction. It is designed to give anyone interested in Western art a firm familiarity with its basics, including major artists and styles in various media and providing a broad foundation for deeper exploration.
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Stamford | Available |
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Subject |
Art > History. Art > Themes, motives. Art appreciation. Art appreciation. |
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Educational films. Video recordings. |
- ISBN: 1598033565
- Physical Description 8 videodiscs (1440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2007]
- Copyright ©2007
Content descriptions
General Note: | 48 lectures (30 minutes each). "Fine arts & music"--Container. GMD: videodisc. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 1. Continuity and transformation: what is art? -- Art as the offspring of religion -- Preclassical Greek art -- Toward the classical Athenian moment -- Beyond the borders of classical Greek art -- The birth of the new: Hellenistic art -- Hellenistic, Etruscan, and early Roman art -- Roman and Judaean art -- Early Christian art and its progeny -- The beginnings of Jewish art -- Christian medieval art and architecture -- The language of Romanesque and Gothic art. pt. 2. Islamic art from abstract to figurative -- Jewish medieval art and architecture -- Early Renaissance painting in central Italy -- 15th century Italian Renaissance painting -- Renaissance painting beyond the Alps -- Renaissance sculpture: toward Florence -- High Renaissance in central Italy -- The rebirth of classical dynamism -- The light of the Veneto -- 16th century Northern European painting -- Transformation of people, objects, ideas. pt. 3. The Reformation and the Mannerist crisis -- Baroque shadows: Venice to Madrid to Rome -- Shadow and light from Rome to the lowlands -- Northern landscapes and life sweeps -- The counter-Reformation from Italy outward -- Revolutions in Spanish and English painting -- France's gold and silver ages -- Politics and romanticism -- From realism to impressionism -- From Paris to the East -- American romantic realism and its progeny -- Fin de Siècle European art movements. pt. 4. Asia and Africa in the Western mind -- They all came to Paris -- Revolutions in early 20th century painting --Figuration and abstraction: the struggle -- Developments in sculpture: Rodin to Judd -- New worlds of architecture: Wright to Hadid -- The edges of West and East -- Art, trauma, and politics -- Defining modern Jewish art -- The problem of categories in modern art -- The explosion of modernist media -- Art, politics, and religion from era to era. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Lecturer: Ori Z. Soltes, Georgetown University. |
System Details Note: | DVD. |