shopping cart
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Original Essays | June 22, 2009

Bethany Moreton: IMG Culture War on Aisle 5? Wal-Mart, Evangelicals, and "Extreme Capitalism"



"In the 'culture wars' narrative of the Republican ascendancy, this slippage represents the greatest con in recent history: while you rush to defend marriage or protect the unborn, please pay no attention to the financier behind the curtain." Continue »
  1. $19.56 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

On Order

$53.75
List price: $63.75
COMPACT DISC, NEW
Currently out of stock.
Add to Wishlist
available for shipping or prepaid pickup only
Qty Store Section
- Local Warehouse Audio Books- Art


Frames of Reference's Core Concepts in Art CD-ROM

by Janet T. Marquardt

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Driven by the authors' conviction that education ought to be a process of inquiry rather than submission to received wisdom, Frames of Reference develops students critical understanding and appreciation of art by focusing on interesting intersections among the viewpoints of patrons, artists, viewers, and critics. Thematically organized with a chronological underpinning, the text includes thought-provoking chapter topics such as "The Earth as Art," "Representations of the Gods," "Patrons and the Role of the Artist," "Utopia and Dystopia," and "Identity in Contemporary Art."

Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Pedagogy

Ancillaries

Timeline

1. The Earth as Art

Mounds and Henges

Neolithic Britain

Japan

North America

Celestial Orientation in Mesoamerica
The Ziggurat

Modern Earthworks

Excerpt from Washington Irvings The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1819

Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics

2. Representations of the Gods

Antiquity

Gods and Myths

Greece

Herodotus and the Ideal Citizen
Marble versus Bronze

Christian Europe

Fresco versus Mosaic

Hindu India

Siva and Ganesha

Buddhist India and East Asia

The Buddha

Aztec Mexico

Under the Great Temple in Mexico City

Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics

3. The Art of Rulers

The Middle East

Mesopotamia
Persia

Africa

Ancient Egypt

The Most Famous Tomb in the World

Sub-Saharan Africa

Benin
Asante
Kuba

The West

Roman and Byzantine Empires

Arches
Equestrian Statues
Ottoman Tributes to Justinians Achievement
Divine Approval

Western Europe in the Middle Ages

Southeast Asia

Hawaii

Monuments to Power

Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics

4. Pilgrimage

Greek Shrines of Antiquity

The Persian War

Christian Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages

The Holy Land

Taking Ship

Europe

Pagan Origins for Christian Symbols
Romanesque Churches
Canterbury
The Gothic Style
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Modern Versions of Medieval Piety

Islamic Pilgrimage

Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics

5. Patrons and the Role of the Artist

Benin

Chinese Painting

Confucius

Northern Song

Chinese Painting Formats
Writing on Art (Literally)

Southern Song

The Ming Dynasty: Revival and Breakdown of Tradition

The Italian Renaissance

The Greco-Roman Classical Tradition

Renaissance Florence

Intellectual Trends: Humanism and Neo-Platonism
Vitruvius
Alberti and Fifteenth-Century Painting
Florences Two Davids
Leonardo da Vinci
Disputes over the Restoration of Leonardos Last Supper

Rome: Julius II and Leo X

Titian in Venice

Giorgio Vasari and Grand Duke Cosimo I

New Ireland

Two Patrons: Akbar and Louis XIV

Akbar
Louis XIV

Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics

6. Art and Collecting

Commissioning Illuminated Manuscripts

Netherlandish Collections

The Grand Tour

Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

The American Nouveau-Riche

American Loot and the Invention of the Ethnographic Museum

Spoils of War

The First National Museum
Hiding the Louvre
African Artifacts and Souvenirs

Cross-influences in collecting: Japan and France

Emile Zola

Modern Collections

Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics

7. Art and Revolution in the Modern World (1760–1960)

The French Revolution

The Social Contract
Spain: Francisco de Goya
England and the Grand Manner

The American Revolution

Ongoing Revolution: France in the Nineteenth Century

Political Strife in the 1830s
The Fall of the French Monarchy, 1848
Renewal and Destruction, 1851-74
The Industrial Revolution in France and the Rise of the Poster

Mexico

Russia

China

Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics

8. Utopia and Dystopia

French Art after Impressionism

Two Visionary Thinkers: Charles Darwin and Karl Marx

Paris in the Early Twentieth Century

Paris: Capital of the Art World
The Universal Exposition (1900) and the Trocadéro Museum in Paris

German Expressionism

Le Corbusier and the Classical Future

Italian Futurism

The United States: Color and the Future

Abstraction

Dystopian Visions in Germany after World War I

Fritz Lang

Counterpoint: Utopian Visions in Germany After World War I

Women at the Bauhaus

Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics

9. Art, the Spirit World and the Inner Mind

Aboriginal Art

Yoruban Art

Frobenius and the Ife Heads

Native American Art

Sigmund Freud and Expressionism

World War I and Dada

Surrealism

Shell Shock
Breton and Surrealism in Mexico

Degenerate Art

Postwar Abstraction

The Irascibles

European Postwar Art and the Mind

Pop Art: Rejecting the Inner Mind

Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics

10. Identity in Contemporary Art

Early Feminism

Sex versus Gender
Performance Art
Feminist Art History

The Second Wave of Feminist Art

Conceptual Art
Male Superstars of the 1980s

Black Identity

African-American Quilts
African-American Art History

Postcolonial Identity in Asian, Africa and the West Indies

Indian and Pakistani Artists
Nigerian and South African Artists
West Indian Artists

Multicultural Art in the United States

1990: Culture Wars in the USA
Native American Artifacts

Further Reading, Source References, Discussion Topics

Elements and Approaches to Art History

Maps

Glossary

Bibliography

Picture Credits

Index

Product Details

ISBN:
9780072829501
Author:
Marquardt, Janet T.
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
Author:
Marquardt, Janet
Author:
Marquardt Janet
Author:
Eskilson, Stephen
Author:
Eskilson, Stephen J.
Subject:
Non-Classifiable
Subject:
General
Subject:
General Art
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1
Publication Date:
January 2004
Binding:
Compact Disc
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Dimensions:
5.00x5.00x.5 in. .60 lbs.

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.