Part Ⅰ Introduction to Art and Art History 1
1．Art 1
1.1 Art and the Artist 1
1.2 Creativity 2
1.3 Originality 3
1.4 Exercises 7
2．Art History 7
2.1 The Bases of Art History 7
2.2 General Concepts 12
2.3 Specialized Concepts 22
2.4 The Problem of Representation 31
2.5 Exercises 39
Part Ⅱ The Birth of Art 40
3．The Old Stone Age 40
3.1 Cave Art 40
3.2 Carved and Painted Objects 43
4．The New Stone Age 44
4.1 Jericho 44
4.2 Catal Hüyük 46
4.3 Neolithic Europe 47
4.4 Neolithic America 48
4.5 Exercises 54
Part Ⅲ Renaissance 55
5．Introduction to Renaissance 55
5.1 Early Renaissance(European Painting in the 15th Century) 55
5.2 The High Renaissance 69
5.3 Exercises 93
Part Ⅵ Nineteenth-Century Impressionism 94
6．Introducton to Impressionism 94
6.1 Edouard Manet 94
6.2 Pierre-Auguste Renoir 98
6.3 EdgarDegas 101
6.4 Claude Monet 105
6.5 French Sculpture:Auguste Rodin 113
6.6 Exercises 122
Part Ⅴ Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century 123
7．Introduction to Post-Impressionism 123
7.1 Paul Cézanne 123
7.2 Vincent van Gogh 128
7.3 Paul Gauguin 133
7.4 Edvard Munch 137
7.5 Na？ve Painting 141
7.6 Exercises 148
Part Ⅵ Classical Modernism Painting in the First Half of the 20th Century 150
8．Introduction to Classical Modernism 150
8.1 Henri Matisse 150
8.2 Pablo Picasso 153
8.3 Paul Klee 156
8.4 Grand Wood 158
8.5 Exercises 166
Part Ⅶ The Arts of China 167
9．Introduction to the arts of China 167
9.1 Shang Dynasty 168
9.2 Zhou Dynasty 169
9.3 Qin and Han Dynasties 170
9.4 Three Kingdoms and Sui Dynasty 173
9.5 Tang Dynasty 177
9.6 Five Dynasties and Northern Song Dynasty 181
9.7 Southern Song Dynasty 183
9.8 Yuan Dynasty 185
9.9 Ming,Qing and New China 186
10．Architecture 190
Exercises 194
References 195