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The story of art / E.H. Gombrich.

By: Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Phaidon, 1978Edition: 13th ed.Description: [6],506p : ill(some col), ports(some col), facsims(chiefly col) ; 26cm.ISBN: 0714818410; 0714818208 (v).Subject(s): Art -- HistoryDDC classification: 709
Contents:
Introduction: on art and artists -- Strange beginnings: prehistoric and primitive peoples; ancient America -- Art for eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete -- The great awakening: Greece, seventh to fifth century B.C. -- The realm of beauty: Greece and the Greek world, fourth century B.C. to first century A.D. -- World conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century A.D. -- A parting of ways: Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century -- Looking eastwards: Islam, China, second to thirteenth century -- Western art in the melting pot: Europe, sixth to eleventh century -- The Church militant: the twelfth century -- The Church triumphant: the thirteenth century -- Courtiers and burglars: the fourteenth century -- The conquest of reality: the early fifteenth century -- Tradition and innovation: the later fifteenth century in Italy -- Tradition and innovation: the fifteenth century in the North -- Harmony attained: Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century -- Light and colour: Venice and northern Italy in the early sixteenth century -- The new learning spreads: Germany and the Netherlands in the early sixteenth century -- A crisis of art: Europe, later sixteenth century -- Vision and visions: Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century -- The mirror of nature: Holland in the seventeenth century -- Power and glory: Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Power and glory: France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- The age of reason: England and France, eighteenth century -- The break in tradition: England, America and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Permanent revolution: the nineteenth century -- In search of new standards: the late nineteenth century -- Experimental art: the first half of the twentieth century.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item 709 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00026588
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General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 709 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00117067
General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store Item 709 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00057600
General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 709 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00059471
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 498-502) and index.

Introduction: on art and artists -- Strange beginnings: prehistoric and primitive peoples; ancient America -- Art for eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete -- The great awakening: Greece, seventh to fifth century B.C. -- The realm of beauty: Greece and the Greek world, fourth century B.C. to first century A.D. -- World conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century A.D. -- A parting of ways: Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century -- Looking eastwards: Islam, China, second to thirteenth century -- Western art in the melting pot: Europe, sixth to eleventh century -- The Church militant: the twelfth century -- The Church triumphant: the thirteenth century -- Courtiers and burglars: the fourteenth century -- The conquest of reality: the early fifteenth century -- Tradition and innovation: the later fifteenth century in Italy -- Tradition and innovation: the fifteenth century in the North -- Harmony attained: Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century -- Light and colour: Venice and northern Italy in the early sixteenth century -- The new learning spreads: Germany and the Netherlands in the early sixteenth century -- A crisis of art: Europe, later sixteenth century -- Vision and visions: Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century -- The mirror of nature: Holland in the seventeenth century -- Power and glory: Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Power and glory: France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- The age of reason: England and France, eighteenth century -- The break in tradition: England, America and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Permanent revolution: the nineteenth century -- In search of new standards: the late nineteenth century -- Experimental art: the first half of the twentieth century.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Library Journal Review

Phaidon Press has produced a much-improved edition of Sir Ernst Gombrich's classic narrative study of art history, which was first published in 1950. Among the many competing introductory texts‘the central monuments of which are H.W. Janson's History of Art (Prentice, 1986. 4th. ed.) and Helen Gardner's Art Through the Ages (4th ed. o.p.)‘Gombrich's venerable work has inhabited a unique niche, having been created specifically for newcomers to art. As his title indicates, he presents the whole of art history as a chronological narrative. Gombrich's voice is lively, opinionated, and almost conversational, yet his erudition shines through to make a book that is both accessible and informative. His premise, that the love of art, not the love of history, is the appropriate basis for its study is communicated directly with his irrepressible enthusiasm for certain masters and his passionate exasperation with 20th century nonobjective artists. While much of the text is unchanged, the format has been completely redesigned with vastly expanded illustrations, improved captions, better charts and an excellent index. This book belongs on every art-lover's bedside table, and even those libraries owning an earlier edition would not regret adding this refinement of an already first-rate work.‘Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., Cal. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gombrich's The Story of Art has been a treasured standard in the field, selling more than 4 million copies since its first edition in 1950. Now in its 16th edition and available for the first time in paperback, this comprehensive look at Western art from prehistoric times on up to the present has been completely redesigned and extensively revised and updated. In addition, the illustrations have all been enhanced, and a total of 443 are now in color. Gombrich is more than an authority, he's an advocate, and his love and deep respect for art infuse his invigorating text. In his discussion of twentieth-century art, for instance, Gombrich explains how even the most experimental contemporary art is connected in some way to what has gone before. Gombrich tells the story of art "as the story of a continuous weaving and changing of traditions in which each work refers to the past and points to the future." Gombrich's invaluable history is a veritable celebration of this "living chain." --Donna Seaman

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, born March 30, 1909, in Vienna, Austria, was educated at Vienna University where he earned a Ph.D. His career includes terms as Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford and Cambridge universities and as Andrew D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University.

Gombrich's books on art and art history have sold as well as some works of fiction. One of his most popular titles is The Story of Art, which has been translated into 18 languages and sold more than two million copies. Other titles are; Looking for Answers: Conversations on Art and Science (with Didier Eribon), Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art, and Gombrich on Art and Psychology. His numerous awards include the Erasmus Prize in 1975, the Hegel Prize in 1976, and the International Balzan Prize in 1985. He holds honorary degrees from various universities, among them Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard, and from the Royal College of Art (London), 1981.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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