The Handy Art History Answer Book covers everything from Paleolithic images dating back to 35000 B.C.E. to the post-modern techniques of today. It leads you on a tour from the basics and beginnings of art to the various directions that art is heading today.

Table of Contents

• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• TIMELINE
• INTRODUCTION
• ART PRINCIPLES AND HISTORY
• Art Fundamentals
• Basics of Architecture
• Form and Style
• Finding Meaning in Art
• Prehistoric Art
• ART OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, 5000 B.C.E.–400 C.E.
• Art of the Ancient Near East
• Art of India and Southeast Asia
• Art of Ancient Africa
• Ancient Egyptian Art
• Art of Ancient China
• Early Japan and Korea
• Art of the Ancient Americas
• Aegean Art
• Ancient Greek Art
• Etruscan Art
• Roman Art
• THE MEDIEVAL WORLD, C. 400–1300
• Early Jewish and Christian Art
• Byzantine Art
• Islamic Art
• Early Medieval Art from Northern Europe
• Carolingian and Ottonian Art
• India and Southeast Asia
• Chinese Art from the Sui to the Yuan Dynasties, c. 589–1368
• Korean Art until c. 1400
• Japanese Art until c. 1400
• Art of Medieval Africa
• Pre-Columbian America
• North America
• Romanesque Europe
• Gothic Europe
• THE EARLY MODERN WORLD, C. 1300–1600
• Proto-Renaissance
• Early Renaissance in Italy
• Northern European Renaissance
• High Renaissance in Italy
• Renaissance Venice
• Sixteenth-Century European Art and Architecture
• Islamic Art and the Ottoman Empire
• African Art
• Art and Zen Buddhism
• Art in the New World
• BAROQUE AND BEYOND, C. 1600–1850
• Baroque Italy and France
• Dutch and Flemish Painting
• The Golden Age of Spain
• Asian Art
• Rococo and the Eighteenth Century
• Mughal Art in India
• Neoclassical Art
• Romanticism
• Art of the Americas
• FROM THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR I, C. 1850–1914
• Late Nineteenth-Century Painting
• Early Photography
• Japanese Art
• Impressionism
• Post-Impressionism
• Architecture
• African Art
• Early Twentieth-Century Art
• THE MODERN WORLD DURING AND AFTER THE WORLD WARS, C. 1914–1960
• Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde
• Architecture and Design
• Dada and Surrealism
• Photography
• Modern Art until c. 1960
• American Art and the Influence of Europe
• Modern Art in Latin America
• European Art after World War II
• Native American Art
• Pacific Art
• CONTEMPORARY ART, 1960s–PRESENT
• Pop Art
• Conceptual Art and Other Modern Art Movements
• Art, Culture, and Politics
• Figurative Art
• Postmodernism and Art
• Contemporary Art and Technology
• Emerging Forms of Art
• Contemporary Art and Globalization
• Exploring Art on Your Own
• GLOSSARY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY