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Cole, Bruce, 1938-2018, author.

Art of the western world : from ancient Greece to post-modernism / by Bruce Cole, Adelheid Gealt ; with an introduction by Michael Wood.

New York : Summit Books, ©1989.

xx, 345 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

This companion volume to the PBS television series "integrates the works of each period with the history, values, and ideals that gave birth to Western art ... [and] offers fresh insights into what the great works meant at the time they were created."--Jacket.

Art -- History.

Gealt, Adelheid M., author.

Wood, Michael, writer of introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (page #x1E) and index.

The art of Greece -- The Roman world -- The triumph of faith : western art to 1100 -- The age of cathedrals -- The dawn of a new era : Italian art, c. 1250-1400 -- The early renaissance in Italy -- The north in the fifteen century -- The age of titans : Italian art of the sixteenth century -- Art for popes and princes -- A golden age : Dutch art of the seventeenth century -- From fantasy to revolution : the art of the eighteenth century -- From fantasy to revolution : the art of the eighteenth century -- Art as emotion : the first half of the nineteenth century -- Toward a new reality : 1850-1900 -- A break with the past : the art of the early twentieth century -- Art between the world wars : 1918-1941 -- The triumph of modernism 1945-1970 -- Art in the post-modern era.

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