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Arts & ideas / William Fleming.

By: Fleming, William, 1909-2001.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Australia : Wadsworth Thomas Learning, 1995Edition: 9th edition.Description: xii, 722 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, music ; 29 cm.ISBN: 0155011049.Subject(s): Arts -- HistoryDDC classification: 700.9
Contents:
Onward into the past -- Part 1: Classical Period -- Hellenic style -- Hellenistic style -- Roman style -- Part 2: Medieval Period -- Early Christian, Byzantine, Islamic styles -- Romanesque style -- Gothic style -- Late medieval styles -- Florentine Renaissance style -- Part 3: Renaissance -- Roman Renaissance style -- Northern Renaissance styles -- Venetian Renaissance, International Mannerism -- Part 4: Baroque Period -- Counter Reformation Baroque Styles -- Aristocratic Baroque Style: France, England -- Bourgeois Baroque style -- 18th-century styles -- Part 5: Revolutionary Period -- Neoclassical style -- Romantic style -- Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism -- Early 20th-century styles, Part I -- Early 20th-century styles, Part II -- Mid-20th-century styles -- Late 20th-century styles.

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Intended for courses in Western Humanities, this best-selling text chronologically explores the major styles as they appear in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy from antiquity to present. Using lively anecdotes, Fleming shows how the styles are linked together by common purposes, themes, and ideas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Onward into the past -- Part 1: Classical Period -- Hellenic style -- Hellenistic style -- Roman style -- Part 2: Medieval Period -- Early Christian, Byzantine, Islamic styles -- Romanesque style -- Gothic style -- Late medieval styles -- Florentine Renaissance style -- Part 3: Renaissance -- Roman Renaissance style -- Northern Renaissance styles -- Venetian Renaissance, International Mannerism -- Part 4: Baroque Period -- Counter Reformation Baroque Styles -- Aristocratic Baroque Style: France, England -- Bourgeois Baroque style -- 18th-century styles -- Part 5: Revolutionary Period -- Neoclassical style -- Romantic style -- Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism -- Early 20th-century styles, Part I -- Early 20th-century styles, Part II -- Mid-20th-century styles -- Late 20th-century styles.

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