Part I Introduction toArt and Art History
1. Art
1.1 Art and the Artist
1.2 Creativity
1.3 Originality
1.4 Exercises
2. Art History
2.1 The Bases of Art History
2.2 General Concepts
2.3 Specialized Concepts
2.4 The Problem of Representation
2.5 Exercises
Part II The Birth of Art
3. The Old Stone Age
3.1 Cave Art
3.2 Carved and Painted Objects
4. The New Stone Age
4.1 Jericho
4.2 Catal Hfiyuk
4.3 Neolithic Europe
4.4 Neolithic America
4.5 Exercises
Part III Renaissance
5. Introduction to Renaissance
5.1 Early Renaissance (European Painting in the 15th Century)
5.2 The High Renaissance
5.3 Exercises
Part VI Nineteenth-Century Impressionism
6. Introducton to Impressionism
6.1 Edouard Manet
6.2 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
6.3 Edgar Degas
6.4 Claude Monet
6.5 French Sculpture: Auguste Rodin
6.6 Exercises
Part V Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century
7. Introduction to Post-Impressionism
7.1 Paul C6zanne
7.2 Vincent van Gogh
7.3 Paul Gauguin
7.4 Edvard Munch
7.5 Naive Painting
7.6 Exercises
Part VI Classical Modernism Painting in the First Half of the 20th Century
8. Introduction to Classical Modernism
8.1 Henri Matisse
8.2 Pablo Picasso
8.3 Paul Klee
8.4 Grand Wood
8.5 Exercises
Part VII The Arts of China
9. Introduction to the arts of China
9.1 Shang Dynasty
9.2 Zhou Dynasty
9.3 Qin and Han Dynasties
9.4 Three Kingdoms and Sui Dynasty
9.5 Tang Dynasty
9.6 Five Dynasties and Northern Song Dynasty
9.7 Southern Song Dynasty
9.8 Yuan Dynasty
9.9 Ming, Qing and New China
10. Architecture
Exercises
References