The annotated Mona Lisa : a crash course in art history from prehistoric to the present / Carol Strickland and John Boswell. [print]

Introduction: How to look at a painting -- The Birth of Art : Prehistoric Through Medieval. Prehistoric art : the beginning ; Mesopotamia : the architects ; Egypt : the art of immortality ; Greece : they invented a lot more than the Olympics ; Rome : the organizers ; Pre-Columbian art of the Americas : new world art when it was still an old war ; African art : the first Cubists ; The Middle Ages : the reign of religion -- The Rebirth of Art : Renaissance and Baroque. The Renaissance : the beginning of modern painting ; Baroque : the ornate age -- The Nineteenth Century : Birth of the "isms". Neoclassicism : Roman fever ; Goya : man without an "ism" ; Romanticism : the power of passion ; Realism ; Architecture for the industrial age ; Art nouveau ; Birth of photography ; Impressionism : let there be color and light ; Rodin : first modern sculptor ; Post-impressionism ; Early expressionism ; Symbolism ; The birth of modern architecture -- The Twentieth Century : Modern Art. Fauvism : exploding color ; Twentieth-century sculpture : a new look ; Twin titans of the twentieth century : Matisse and Picasso ; Cubism ; Modernism outside of France ; Mondarian : harmony of opposites ; Modernist architecture : geometry to live in ; Dada and Surrealism : art between the wars ; Photography comes of age ; American art : 1908-40 ; Abstract expressionism ; Figural expressionism : not just a pretty face ; Post-war sculpture ; Color field -- The Twentieth Century : Contemporary Art. Hard edge ; Pre-pop art ; Pop art ; Minimalism : the cool school ; Conceptual art : invisible visual art ; Contemporary architecture ; Photography : what's new ; Photo-realism ; Neo-expressionism ; The new breed : post-modern art ; Contemporary art -- The Twenty-First Century : State of the Art. Outsider art comes inside the canon ; Neo-pop ; California culture ; Performance and participatory art ; Installation art ; Asian art takes the stage ; Photography shines : from abstract to exact ; Big ideas : new sculpture ; Figure and form : painting makes a point ; Abstract painting : Scully's windows on the world ; New media art : high-tech trump's high-touch ; Eco-art : it's not easy being green.

An illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to contemporary world art, from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media in an easy-to-understand format.

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