Art across the ages [videorecording] /
Ori Z. Soltes.
- Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2007.
- 8 videodiscs (1440 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (347 p. ; 19 cm.) + 4 Lecture Transcript and Course Guidebooks ( Part 1 283 p., Part 2 283 p., Part 3 290 p., Part 4 287 p.)
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- Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts. .
Discs in four containers, guidebook separate (4). 48 lectures (30 minutes each). "Fine arts & music"--Container.
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. 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. 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 Si�ecle European art movements. 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.
Lecturer: Ori Z. Soltes, Georgetown University.
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.
DVD.
1598033565 9781598033564
Art--History. Art--Themes, motives. Art appreciation.