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AH 102, Art and Culture in the West from 1400 to the Present (Aleksandra Idzior and Jill Bain): Books by Topic

Introduction

This guide is designed to accompany Art History 102 Online (Winter 2022). The course is currently taught by Aleksandra Idzior.The resources on this guide are all available online.

For more information and tips, see also the Visual Arts and Art History LibGuide.

Writing and Citing

Writing about Art / Marjorie Munsterberg
"Explains the different approaches college students encounter in undergraduate art history classes. Each chapter outlines the characteristics of one type of visual or historical analysis..."

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Unit One: Introduction to the Course

The Art of Art History by Donald Preziosi (Editor)
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Background Information
Many more sources to give you background information on artists, eras, movements, terminology

Units Two and Three: Renaissance

Patronage, Art, and Society in Renaissance Italy by F. W. Kent; Patricia Simons; J. C. Eade
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Michelangelo's Painting: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg
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The Renaissance by Walter Pater
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A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art by Babette Bohn
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The Essential Durer by Larry Silver
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Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700 by Elizabeth Sutton (Editor)
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Renaissance Architecture by Christy Anderson
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Units Four and Five: Baroque and Rococo

Baroque Visual Rhetoric by Vernon Minor
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Social History of Art, Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism , Baroque by Arnold Hauser
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Social History of Art, Volume 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism by Arnold Hauser
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Painted Alchemists: Early Modern Artistry and Experiment in the Work of Thomas Wijck by Elisabeth Berry Drago
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Rococo by Victoria Charles
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Units Six and Seven: 18th-19th Centuries: Enlightenment to Modernism

Why the Romantics Matter by Peter Gay
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David to Delacroix: The Rise of Romantic Mythology by Dorothy Johnson
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Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History by Carmen Casaligg
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Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Melissa Hyde
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Impressionism by Nathalia Brodskaia
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Realism in the Age of Impressionism by Marnin Young
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Art in an Age of Civil Struggle, 1848-1871 by Albert Boime
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Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century by Nicoletta Leonardi
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Units Eight, Nine and Ten: The Avant-Garde, Experimentation, Abstraction

Post-Impressionism by Nathalia Brodskaia
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The Fauves by Nathalia Brodskaia
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Back to the Futurists: The Avant-Garde and its legacy by Elza Adamowicz
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Cubism by Guillaume Apollinaire; Dorothea Eimert
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Meanings of Abstract Art: Between nature and theory by Paul Crowther
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Modern Architecture by Alan Colquhoun
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Dada and Beyond. Vol. 1 Dada Discourses by Elza Adamowicz
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Dada and Beyond. Vol. 2 Dada and Its Legacies by Elza Adamowicz
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The Rise of Surrealism: Cubism, Dada, and the Pursuit of the Marvelous by Willard Bohn
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Units Eleven and Twelve: Postwar, Postmodernism and Art Now

After Modern Art, 1945-2000 by David Hopkins
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The Dinner Party: Judy Chicago and the power of popular feminism, 1970-2007 by Jane F. Gerhard
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London Art Worlds: Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks, 1960–1980 by Jo Applin
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Machine Art in the Twentieth Century by Andreas Broeckmann
Call Number: N 72 T4 B76 2016 Abb Stacks
Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism by Sylvia Harrison
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Robert Rauschenberg by Robert Rauschenberg; Branden W. Joseph
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The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism by Stuart Sim
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What is 'deconstruction'? What authors are considered 'postmodern novelists'? The Routledge Companion to Postmodernismcombines a series of fourteen in-depth background chapters with a body of A-Z entries to create an authoritative, yet readable guide to the complex world of postmodernism. Following full-length articles on postmodernism and philosophy, politics, feminism, lifestyles, television, and other postmodern essentials, readers will find a wide range of alphabetically-organized entries on the people, terms and theories connected with postmodernism, including: Peter Ackroyd; Jean Baudrillard; Chaos Theory; Death of the Auth∨ Desire; Fractals; Michel Foucau< Frankfurt School; Generation X; Minimalism; Poststructuralism; Retro; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; and Trans-avant-garde. Students interested in any aspect of postmodernist thought will find this an indispensable resource.

Twentieth Century Art

Art of the 20th Century by Dorothea Eimert
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Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art by David W. Galenson
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Twentieth-Century American Art by Erika Doss
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Guide Authorship

This guide was prepared by Patti Wilson and is maintained by Brenda Philip, liaison librarian for Art History and Visual Arts.

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