Greek literature, body of writings in the greek language, with a continuous history extending from the 1st millennium bc to the present day. A sound and concise overview of the history of art of western europe not the world as the title proclaims with a tad bit of us, but no latin, african or eastern european. We are using it for the second time for usf university of south florida senior programs for students in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. The topic of art in the western world spans millenniums, from as early as the ancient egyptians, throughout the middle ages and the renaissance, and all the way to the modern. From ancient greece to post modernism cole, bruce on.
Art of the western world book by bruce cole official. From the beginning its writers were greeks living not only in greece proper but also in asia minor, the aegean islands. Art of the ancient world east and west, held at the metropolitan museum of art, new york, from october 3, 2000, to january 14, 2001. We know were meant to think that ancient greece was a cradle of civilisation. Along the way experts bruce cole and adelheid gealt carefully. From ancient greece to postmodernism, paperback by cole, bruce. The art of the western world video series is excellent up to 1945. Since then, greek culture has helped to define, for better or for worse, a western canon. Following the battle of jena, the prussian minister of. Many have sought to retrieve this ideal image of a beautiful greece by studying and trying to imitate the ancient greeks and their culture.
Gealt, adelheid, isbn 0671747282, isbn 9780671747282, brand new, free shipping in the us traces the history of western art from its classical roots up to the present day, and integrates the works of each period with the history, values, and ideals that gave birth to them. Very quick chapters with representative photos, but no listing of where to view the art. Art of the western world the companion volume to the ninepart pbs television series traces the history of western art from its classical roots in ancient greece up to the present day and the international postmodernism of artists as diverse as christo, hockney, and kiefer. Boardmans subject is not so much what greek art meant to the greeks and to foreigners but how it moved through the world. The catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition the year one. Publication date 1989 topics art, art publisher new york. Even after 3,000 years, were still using ancient greek ideas in maths, science and art. Any reader who thinks of the modern era as the transportation age will be.