From the Book - Second edition.
Getting started with Art History. Art tour through the ages
Why people make art and what it all means
The major artistic movements
From caves to the Colosseum : Ancient art. Magical hunters and psychedelic cave artists
Fickle gods, warrior art, and the birth of writing: Mesopotamian Art
One foot in the tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art
Greek Art, the Olympian ego, and the inventors of the Modern World
Etruscan and Roman Art: It's all Greek to me!
Art after the fall of Rome : a.d. 500-a.d. 1760. The graven image: early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic art
Mystics, marauders, and manuscripts: Medieval art
Born-again culture: The early and high Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North
Art that'll Stretch your neck: Mannerism
When the Renaissance went Baroque
The Industrial Revolution and artistic devolution : 1760-1900. All roads lead back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical art
Romanticism: Reaching within and acting out
What you see is what you get: Realism
First impressions: Impressionism
Making their own impression: The Post-Impressionists
Twentieth-century art and beyond. From Fauvism to Expressionism
Cubist puzzles and finding the fast lane with the futurists
Nonobjective Art: Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism
Anything-goes art: Fab fifties and psychedelic sixties
Photography: From a science to an art
The New World: Postmodern art.
The part of tens. Ten must see art museums
Ten great books by ten great artists.
Mankind in the looking glass : Art history 101
From caves to the Colosseum : Ancient art
Art after the fall of Rome : a.d. 500-a.d. 1760
The Industrial Revolution and artistic devolution : 1760-1900
Twentieth-century art and beyond