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Art for dummies / by Thomas Hoving ; foreword by Andrew Wyeth.

By: Hoving, Thomas, 1931-2009Contributor(s): Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 [writer of foreword.]Material type: TextTextSeries: --For dummiesPublication details: Foster City, CA : IDG Books Worldwide, c1999. Description: xxiv, 382 p., [32] p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN: 0764551043 :Subject(s): Art appreciationGenre/Form: works of art. | Art | Art | Œuvres d'art.LOC classification: N7477 | .H685 1999
Contents:
Part 1 Appreciating Art 7 -- Chapter 1 What Is Art? 9 -- Toward a Definition of Art 9 -- Levels of art 10 -- The constant in art 10 -- How to Recognize Good Art 12 -- Chapter 2 How to Appreciate Art Without an Advanced Degree 13 -- The Key to Being a Connoisseur 13 -- Distinguishing the good from the bad 14 -- Examining the real thing 14 -- Keeping your eye in tune 16 -- Chapter 3 How to Visit a Museum the Way the Pros Do 17 -- Doing What the Pros Do 17 -- Get a postcard 17 -- Make a "wish list" 18 -- Look at what you don't like 18 -- Become a member of the museum 18 -- Listen to some music 19 -- Dress code 20 -- A final plea 20 -- Part II Art through the Ages 21 -- Chapter 4 Prehistoric Art (More Sophisticated Than You Would Believe) 23 -- Prehistoric Cave Art 23 -- Altamira 24 -- Lascaux 24 -- Chauvet 26 -- Art Leaves the Caves 26 -- Chapter 5 The Ancient World: Still the Most Exciting 29 -- The Ancient Near East 30 -- Mesopotamia (Iraq) 30 -- Anatolia (Turkey) 32 -- Persia (Iran) 32 -- Egypt, the True Grandmother of the Fine Arts 33 -- The character of Egyptian art 34 -- Where to see Egyptian art 35 -- The best of Egyptian art 35 -- The Glory That Was Greece 40 -- Portraying the figure 41 -- The Temple of Apollo at Olympia 42 -- More figures from the 5th century 43 -- The Hellenistic period 47 -- The Art of Rome 50 -- Etruscan influences 50 -- Discovering Roman art 51 -- Pompeii and Herculaneum 53 -- Roman silverworking 54 -- Christian influences 55 -- Chapter 6 Medieval Art (Definitely Not the Dark Ages) 57 -- Early Christian Art 58 -- The early Christian "look" 58 -- The rise of the mosaic as a medium 58 -- The early Christian style in Rome 59 -- The apogee of early Christian art 60 -- The "Dark Ages" 61 -- The Lindisfarne Gospels 61 -- The Book of Kells 61 -- The decline of the "Dark Ages" 62 -- The Romanesque 63 -- Gislebertus 63 -- Master Hugo 64 -- Pinpointing the greatest Romanesque works 65 -- The Gothic 65 -- The International Style 68 -- Byzantine Art 70 -- Macedonian Renaissance 72 -- Late Byzantine Art 72 -- Chapter 7 The Renaissance and Revivals 73 -- Renascences 74 -- The Italian Proto-Renaissance 74 -- Italian Early Renaissance 76 -- Brunelleschi 77 -- Masaccio 78 -- Donatello 79 -- Ghiberti 80 -- Piero della Francesca 80 -- Alberti 80 -- Andrea Mantegna 81 -- Sandro Botticelli 82 -- Italian High Renaissance 83 -- Leonardo da Vinci 83 -- Raphael 84 -- Andrea Palladio 85 -- Giorgione 86 -- Titian 87 -- Correggio 87 -- Michelangelo 88 -- Chapter 8 The Northern European "Renaissance" 91 -- The Grandeur of the Northern Renaissance 91 -- Robert Campin 92 -- Jan van Eyck 92 -- Rogier van der Weyden 94 -- Hugo van der Goes 95 -- Hieronymus Bosch 95 -- Pieter Breughel the Elder 97 -- Hans Holbein the Younger 97 -- Matthias Grunewald 98 -- Albrecht Durer 99 -- Northern Sculpture 99 -- Viet Stoss 99 -- Tilman Riemenschneider 100 -- Chapter 9 Mannerism: Sensuality and the Bizarre 101 -- The Real and the Invented Mannerism 101 -- Jacopo da Pontormo 102 -- Rosso Fiorentino 103 -- Bronzino 103 -- Parmigianino 104 -- Veronese and Tintoretto 105 -- French Mannerism 106 -- El Greco 107 -- Chapter 10 The Baroque: The True Golden Age 111 -- The Birth of Baroque 111 -- Caravaggio 111 -- Georges de la Tour 112 -- The Caravaggesque Style Elsewhere 113 -- The Flourishing of the Baroque 113 -- Gianlorenzo Bernini 114 -- Peter Paul Rubens 115 -- Jan Vermeer 117 -- Rembrandt van Rijn 118 -- Baroque Tendencies in France 120 -- Pierre Puget 120 -- Nicholas Poussin 120 -- The Best of the 17th Century: Diego Velazquez 122 -- Chapter 11 The Sparkling 18th Century 125 -- France and the Rococo Style 125 -- Jean-Antoine Watteau 126 -- Francois Boucher 127 -- Jean-Honore Fragonard 127 -- Painters of the middle class 128 -- French sculpture 129 -- French decorative art 131 -- Germany and the Rococo 131 -- The Impact of Italy 132 -- Piazzetta and Tiepolo 132 -- Caneletto, Guardi, and Belotto 132 -- English Contributions 133 -- William Hogarth 133 -- Thomas Gainsborough 133 -- English decorative arts 134 -- The Emergence of America 135 -- The End of the Rococo 136 -- Chapter 12 Neoclassicism and the Romantic Twinge 137 -- Neoclassicism 137 -- Jacques-Louis David 138 -- The reach of Neoclassicism 140 -- Antonio Canova 140 -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 140 -- Romanticism 141 -- William Blake 141 -- Joseph Mallord William Turner 142 -- Caspar David Friedrich 142 -- Eugene Delacroix 143 -- Theodore Gericault 144 -- Francisco Goya 145 -- Chapter 13 Impressionism (The Poetry of the Land and Mankind) 147 -- The Roots of Impressionism 147 -- Creative forebears 147 -- Seminal thoughts 148 -- Political influences 148 -- The advent of photography 148 -- The impact of science 148 -- The art establishment falls 149 -- The Key Role of Edouard Manet 149 -- Claude Monet 150 -- The Impressionist "Style" 152 -- Chapter 14 Post-Impressionism (Or Better, Pre-Modern) 155 -- Painting after the Impressionists 155 -- Georges Seurat 156 -- Paul Gauguin 157 -- Vincent van Gogh 159 -- Paul Cezanne 160 -- Chapter 15 Modern Art: The Bold, the Beautiful, and the Not-So-Beautiful 163 -- Pablo Picasso 164 -- ISMs and Other Styles 169 -- Fauvism 169 -- Die Brucke ("The Bridge") 169 -- Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider") 169 -- Futurism 170 -- Constructivism 171 -- Suprematism 171 -- Dadaism 171 -- Surrealism 172 -- The Bauhaus 172 -- Sezession (Secession) 172 -- Is Modern Art Something of a Joke? 173 -- Chapter 16 Contemporary Art and Its "ISMs" (Not Always So Nice, but Ever Exciting) 175 -- The Lowdown on Contemporary Art 175 -- Abstract Expressionism 176 -- Color Field Painting 177 -- Pop Art 178 -- Abstract Illusionism 179 -- Art Brut 180 -- Body Art 180 -- Minimalism 180 -- Conceptual Art 181 -- Earthworks 181 -- Hairy Whoism and Chicago Imagism 181 -- "True" Art 181 -- Neurotic Realism 182 -- Transavantgardism 182 -- Installation Art 182 -- Chapter 17 A Look at Art Beyond the Western World 185 -- China 185 -- The essence of Chinese art 185 -- Taipei treasures 188 -- Japan 190 -- Unbreakable traditions 190 -- India and Southeast Asia 192 -- Islamic Art -- Only God Remains 192 -- Beginnings -- Early Caliphs and the Umayyads (633-750) 193 -- Fatimids (909-1171) 194 -- Seljuq art (1037-1300) 194 -- Moorish Spain (719-1492) 195 -- Mamluk art (1250-1517) 195 -- Ottoman art (1299-1893) 196 -- Safavid art (1502-1736) 196 -- Mughal art (1525-1857) 197 -- Africa, Oceania, and the Americas 197 -- Africa 198 -- Oceania 199 -- The Americas 200 -- Part III Beginning Your Own Collection 203 -- Chapter 18 Getting Ready to Collect 205 -- Getting Set to Collect 205 -- 1 Record your first impression 206 -- 2 Describe the item in writing 206 -- 3 Determine the condition 208 -- 4 Figure out how the work was used 208 -- 5 Determine the style 208 -- 6 Find out where a piece came from 209 -- 7 Consult an expert 209 -- 8 Run some tests 209 -- 9 Compare your first impression with what you have found out 210 -- The Don'ts of Collecting Art 210 -- Chapter 19 How to Play the Buying Game 213 -- The Many Faces of Forgeries 213 -- Where to Go to Buy 216 -- Knowing What to Ask 216 -- Understanding Dealer-Speak 217 -- Taking Your Chances at an Auction 218 -- What to Collect and What to Avoid 219 -- What to Look Into or Avoid 219 -- Part IV The Part of Tens 221 -- Chapter 20 The Greatest Works of Western Civilization 223 -- King Tut's Golden Mask 224 -- The Sculptures of the Parthenon 224 -- The Scythian Gold Pectoral 225 -- Nicholas of Verdun's Enameled Altar 225 -- Giotto's Arena Chapel 226 -- The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck 227 -- Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" 228 -- Michelangelo's "David" 228 -- The Isenheim Altarpiece by Mathias Grunewald 229 -- El Greco's "Burial of Count Orgaz" 229 -- Diego Velazquez's "Las Meninas" 230 -- Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son" 230 -- Francisco Goya's "The Third of May, 1808" 231 -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party" 231 -- Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" 232 -- Chapter 21 The Ten Most Interesting Artists (And Why) 233 -- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) 233 -- Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) 234 -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 236 -- Francisco Goya (1746-1828) 237 -- Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) 238 -- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610) 239 -- Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) 241 -- Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) 241 -- Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) 242 -- Lysippus (Flourished 4th century B.C.) 243 -- Chapter 22 Ten Artists Worth Watching 245 -- Mark di Suvero (b. 1933) 246 -- Gary Simmons (b. 1964) 246 -- Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928) 246 -- Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917) 246 -- Frank Stella (b. 1936) 247 -- Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) 247 -- Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) 247 -- Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) 247 -- Jenny Saville (b. 1970) 248 -- Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) 248 -- Chapter 23 How to Tell if Your Child Has Artistic Genius and Then What to Do 249 -- Appendix A Artspeak Unmasked 253 -- Appendix B The Professional's Checklist on How to Buy Art 255 -- Appendix C Art Chronology 259 -- The Essential Guide to the World's Top Art Cities and Centers 263 -- The Awesome Americas 265 -- United States 265 -- Arizona 265 -- Arkansas 266 -- California 266 -- Los Angeles Area 266 -- San Diego Area 270 -- San Francisco Area 270 -- Colorado 271 -- Connecticut 271 -- District of Columbia 271.
Summary: If you've wanted to take a closer look at art, but get intimidated by the art world, you'll treasure Art for Dummies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-368) and index.

Part 1 Appreciating Art 7 -- Chapter 1 What Is Art? 9 -- Toward a Definition of Art 9 -- Levels of art 10 -- The constant in art 10 -- How to Recognize Good Art 12 -- Chapter 2 How to Appreciate Art Without an Advanced Degree 13 -- The Key to Being a Connoisseur 13 -- Distinguishing the good from the bad 14 -- Examining the real thing 14 -- Keeping your eye in tune 16 -- Chapter 3 How to Visit a Museum the Way the Pros Do 17 -- Doing What the Pros Do 17 -- Get a postcard 17 -- Make a "wish list" 18 -- Look at what you don't like 18 -- Become a member of the museum 18 -- Listen to some music 19 -- Dress code 20 -- A final plea 20 -- Part II Art through the Ages 21 -- Chapter 4 Prehistoric Art (More Sophisticated Than You Would Believe) 23 -- Prehistoric Cave Art 23 -- Altamira 24 -- Lascaux 24 -- Chauvet 26 -- Art Leaves the Caves 26 -- Chapter 5 The Ancient World: Still the Most Exciting 29 -- The Ancient Near East 30 -- Mesopotamia (Iraq) 30 -- Anatolia (Turkey) 32 -- Persia (Iran) 32 -- Egypt, the True Grandmother of the Fine Arts 33 -- The character of Egyptian art 34 -- Where to see Egyptian art 35 -- The best of Egyptian art 35 -- The Glory That Was Greece 40 -- Portraying the figure 41 -- The Temple of Apollo at Olympia 42 -- More figures from the 5th century 43 -- The Hellenistic period 47 -- The Art of Rome 50 -- Etruscan influences 50 -- Discovering Roman art 51 -- Pompeii and Herculaneum 53 -- Roman silverworking 54 -- Christian influences 55 -- Chapter 6 Medieval Art (Definitely Not the Dark Ages) 57 -- Early Christian Art 58 -- The early Christian "look" 58 -- The rise of the mosaic as a medium 58 -- The early Christian style in Rome 59 -- The apogee of early Christian art 60 -- The "Dark Ages" 61 -- The Lindisfarne Gospels 61 -- The Book of Kells 61 -- The decline of the "Dark Ages" 62 -- The Romanesque 63 -- Gislebertus 63 -- Master Hugo 64 -- Pinpointing the greatest Romanesque works 65 -- The Gothic 65 -- The International Style 68 -- Byzantine Art 70 -- Macedonian Renaissance 72 -- Late Byzantine Art 72 -- Chapter 7 The Renaissance and Revivals 73 -- Renascences 74 -- The Italian Proto-Renaissance 74 -- Italian Early Renaissance 76 -- Brunelleschi 77 -- Masaccio 78 -- Donatello 79 -- Ghiberti 80 -- Piero della Francesca 80 -- Alberti 80 -- Andrea Mantegna 81 -- Sandro Botticelli 82 -- Italian High Renaissance 83 -- Leonardo da Vinci 83 -- Raphael 84 -- Andrea Palladio 85 -- Giorgione 86 -- Titian 87 -- Correggio 87 -- Michelangelo 88 -- Chapter 8 The Northern European "Renaissance" 91 -- The Grandeur of the Northern Renaissance 91 -- Robert Campin 92 -- Jan van Eyck 92 -- Rogier van der Weyden 94 -- Hugo van der Goes 95 -- Hieronymus Bosch 95 -- Pieter Breughel the Elder 97 -- Hans Holbein the Younger 97 -- Matthias Grunewald 98 -- Albrecht Durer 99 -- Northern Sculpture 99 -- Viet Stoss 99 -- Tilman Riemenschneider 100 -- Chapter 9 Mannerism: Sensuality and the Bizarre 101 -- The Real and the Invented Mannerism 101 -- Jacopo da Pontormo 102 -- Rosso Fiorentino 103 -- Bronzino 103 -- Parmigianino 104 -- Veronese and Tintoretto 105 -- French Mannerism 106 -- El Greco 107 -- Chapter 10 The Baroque: The True Golden Age 111 -- The Birth of Baroque 111 -- Caravaggio 111 -- Georges de la Tour 112 -- The Caravaggesque Style Elsewhere 113 -- The Flourishing of the Baroque 113 -- Gianlorenzo Bernini 114 -- Peter Paul Rubens 115 -- Jan Vermeer 117 -- Rembrandt van Rijn 118 -- Baroque Tendencies in France 120 -- Pierre Puget 120 -- Nicholas Poussin 120 -- The Best of the 17th Century: Diego Velazquez 122 -- Chapter 11 The Sparkling 18th Century 125 -- France and the Rococo Style 125 -- Jean-Antoine Watteau 126 -- Francois Boucher 127 -- Jean-Honore Fragonard 127 -- Painters of the middle class 128 -- French sculpture 129 -- French decorative art 131 -- Germany and the Rococo 131 -- The Impact of Italy 132 -- Piazzetta and Tiepolo 132 -- Caneletto, Guardi, and Belotto 132 -- English Contributions 133 -- William Hogarth 133 -- Thomas Gainsborough 133 -- English decorative arts 134 -- The Emergence of America 135 -- The End of the Rococo 136 -- Chapter 12 Neoclassicism and the Romantic Twinge 137 -- Neoclassicism 137 -- Jacques-Louis David 138 -- The reach of Neoclassicism 140 -- Antonio Canova 140 -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 140 -- Romanticism 141 -- William Blake 141 -- Joseph Mallord William Turner 142 -- Caspar David Friedrich 142 -- Eugene Delacroix 143 -- Theodore Gericault 144 -- Francisco Goya 145 -- Chapter 13 Impressionism (The Poetry of the Land and Mankind) 147 -- The Roots of Impressionism 147 -- Creative forebears 147 -- Seminal thoughts 148 -- Political influences 148 -- The advent of photography 148 -- The impact of science 148 -- The art establishment falls 149 -- The Key Role of Edouard Manet 149 -- Claude Monet 150 -- The Impressionist "Style" 152 -- Chapter 14 Post-Impressionism (Or Better, Pre-Modern) 155 -- Painting after the Impressionists 155 -- Georges Seurat 156 -- Paul Gauguin 157 -- Vincent van Gogh 159 -- Paul Cezanne 160 -- Chapter 15 Modern Art: The Bold, the Beautiful, and the Not-So-Beautiful 163 -- Pablo Picasso 164 -- ISMs and Other Styles 169 -- Fauvism 169 -- Die Brucke ("The Bridge") 169 -- Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider") 169 -- Futurism 170 -- Constructivism 171 -- Suprematism 171 -- Dadaism 171 -- Surrealism 172 -- The Bauhaus 172 -- Sezession (Secession) 172 -- Is Modern Art Something of a Joke? 173 -- Chapter 16 Contemporary Art and Its "ISMs" (Not Always So Nice, but Ever Exciting) 175 -- The Lowdown on Contemporary Art 175 -- Abstract Expressionism 176 -- Color Field Painting 177 -- Pop Art 178 -- Abstract Illusionism 179 -- Art Brut 180 -- Body Art 180 -- Minimalism 180 -- Conceptual Art 181 -- Earthworks 181 -- Hairy Whoism and Chicago Imagism 181 -- "True" Art 181 -- Neurotic Realism 182 -- Transavantgardism 182 -- Installation Art 182 -- Chapter 17 A Look at Art Beyond the Western World 185 -- China 185 -- The essence of Chinese art 185 -- Taipei treasures 188 -- Japan 190 -- Unbreakable traditions 190 -- India and Southeast Asia 192 -- Islamic Art -- Only God Remains 192 -- Beginnings -- Early Caliphs and the Umayyads (633-750) 193 -- Fatimids (909-1171) 194 -- Seljuq art (1037-1300) 194 -- Moorish Spain (719-1492) 195 -- Mamluk art (1250-1517) 195 -- Ottoman art (1299-1893) 196 -- Safavid art (1502-1736) 196 -- Mughal art (1525-1857) 197 -- Africa, Oceania, and the Americas 197 -- Africa 198 -- Oceania 199 -- The Americas 200 -- Part III Beginning Your Own Collection 203 -- Chapter 18 Getting Ready to Collect 205 -- Getting Set to Collect 205 -- 1 Record your first impression 206 -- 2 Describe the item in writing 206 -- 3 Determine the condition 208 -- 4 Figure out how the work was used 208 -- 5 Determine the style 208 -- 6 Find out where a piece came from 209 -- 7 Consult an expert 209 -- 8 Run some tests 209 -- 9 Compare your first impression with what you have found out 210 -- The Don'ts of Collecting Art 210 -- Chapter 19 How to Play the Buying Game 213 -- The Many Faces of Forgeries 213 -- Where to Go to Buy 216 -- Knowing What to Ask 216 -- Understanding Dealer-Speak 217 -- Taking Your Chances at an Auction 218 -- What to Collect and What to Avoid 219 -- What to Look Into or Avoid 219 -- Part IV The Part of Tens 221 -- Chapter 20 The Greatest Works of Western Civilization 223 -- King Tut's Golden Mask 224 -- The Sculptures of the Parthenon 224 -- The Scythian Gold Pectoral 225 -- Nicholas of Verdun's Enameled Altar 225 -- Giotto's Arena Chapel 226 -- The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck 227 -- Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" 228 -- Michelangelo's "David" 228 -- The Isenheim Altarpiece by Mathias Grunewald 229 -- El Greco's "Burial of Count Orgaz" 229 -- Diego Velazquez's "Las Meninas" 230 -- Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son" 230 -- Francisco Goya's "The Third of May, 1808" 231 -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party" 231 -- Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" 232 -- Chapter 21 The Ten Most Interesting Artists (And Why) 233 -- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) 233 -- Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) 234 -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 236 -- Francisco Goya (1746-1828) 237 -- Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) 238 -- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610) 239 -- Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) 241 -- Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) 241 -- Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) 242 -- Lysippus (Flourished 4th century B.C.) 243 -- Chapter 22 Ten Artists Worth Watching 245 -- Mark di Suvero (b. 1933) 246 -- Gary Simmons (b. 1964) 246 -- Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928) 246 -- Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917) 246 -- Frank Stella (b. 1936) 247 -- Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) 247 -- Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) 247 -- Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) 247 -- Jenny Saville (b. 1970) 248 -- Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) 248 -- Chapter 23 How to Tell if Your Child Has Artistic Genius and Then What to Do 249 -- Appendix A Artspeak Unmasked 253 -- Appendix B The Professional's Checklist on How to Buy Art 255 -- Appendix C Art Chronology 259 -- The Essential Guide to the World's Top Art Cities and Centers 263 -- The Awesome Americas 265 -- United States 265 -- Arizona 265 -- Arkansas 266 -- California 266 -- Los Angeles Area 266 -- San Diego Area 270 -- San Francisco Area 270 -- Colorado 271 -- Connecticut 271 -- District of Columbia 271.

If you've wanted to take a closer look at art, but get intimidated by the art world, you'll treasure Art for Dummies.