| Description |
4 parts, 8 videodiscs (2 videodisc in ea. part) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks. |
| Series |
Great courses (DVD). Fine arts and music.
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| Note |
Discs in four containers, guidebook separate. |
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48 lectures (30 minutes each). |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Continuity and transformation: what is art? -- Art as the offspring of religion -- Preclassical Greek art -- Toward the classical Athenian moment -- Beyond the borders of classical Greek art -- The birth of the new: Hellenistic art -- Hellenistic, Etruscan, and early Roman art -- Roman and Judaean art -- Early Christian art and its progeny -- The beginnings of Jewish art -- Christian medieval art and architecture -- The language of Romanesque and Gothic art. |
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Pt. 2. Islamic art from abstract to figurative -- Jewish medieval art and architecture -- Early Renaissance painting in central Italy -- 15th century Italian Renaissance painting -- Renaissance painting beyond the Alps -- Renaissance sculpture: toward Florence -- High Renaissance in central Italy -- The rebirth of classical dynamism -- The light of the Veneto -- 16th century Northern European painting -- Transformation of people, objects, ideas. |
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Pt. 3. The Reformation and the Mannerist crisis -- Baroque shadows: Venice to Madrid to Rome -- Shadow and light from Rome to the lowlands -- Northern landscapes and life sweeps -- The counter-Reformation from Italy outward -- Revolutions in Spanish and English painting -- France's gold and silver ages -- Politics and romanticism -- From realism to impressionism -- From Paris to the East -- American romantic realism and its progeny -- Fin de Siecle European art movements. |
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Pt. 4. Asia and Africa in the Western mind -- They all came to Paris -- Revolutions in early 20th century painting -- Figuration and abstraction: the struggle -- Developments in sculpture: Rodin to Judd -- New worlds of architecture: Wright to Hadid -- The edges of West and East -- Art, trauma, and politics -- Defining modern Jewish art -- The problem of categories in modern art -- The explosion of modernist media -- Art, politics, and religion from era to era. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Ori Z. Soltes, Georgetown University. |
| Summary |
Presents a course in Western visual art that serves as both a mind-broadening survey and an essential introduction. It is designed to give anyone interested in Western art a firm familiarity with its basics, including major artists and styles in various media and providing a broad foundation for deeper exploration. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Source |
NAV 11/9 PPL |
| Subject |
Art -- History.
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Art -- Themes, motives.
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Art appreciation.
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DVD-Video discs.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598033565 |
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9781598033564 |
| Music No. |
7150 Teaching Company |
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