Part Ⅰ Introduction to Art and Art History

1．Art

1.1 Art and the Artist

1.2 Creativity

1.3 Originality

1.4 Exercises

2．Art History

2.1 The Bases of Art History

2.2 General Concepts

2.3 Specialized Concepts

2.4 The Problem of Representation

2.5 Exercises

Part Ⅱ The Birth of Art

3．The Old Stone Age

3.1 Cave Art

3.2 Carved and Painted Objects

4．The New Stone Age

4.1 Jericho

4.2 Catal Hüyük

4.3 Neolithic Europe

4.4 Neolithic America

4.5 Exercises

Part Ⅲ Renaissance

5．Introduction to Renaissance

5.1 Early Renaissance(European Painting in the 15th Century)

5.2 The High Renaissance

5.3 Exercises

Part Ⅵ Nineteenth-Century Impressionism

6．Introducton to Impressionism

6.1 Edouard Manet

6.2 Pierre-Auguste Renoir

6.3 EdgarDegas

6.4 Claude Monet

6.5 French Sculpture:Auguste Rodin

6.6 Exercises

Part Ⅴ Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century

7．Introduction to Post-Impressionism

7.1 Paul Cézanne

7.2 Vincent van Gogh

7.3 Paul Gauguin

7.4 Edvard Munch

7.5 Na？ve Painting

7.6 Exercises

Part Ⅵ Classical Modernism Painting in the First Half of the 20th Century

8．Introduction to Classical Modernism

8.1 Henri Matisse

8.2 Pablo Picasso

8.3 Paul Klee

8.4 Grand Wood

8.5 Exercises

Part Ⅶ The Arts of China

9．Introduction to the arts of China

9.1 Shang Dynasty

9.2 Zhou Dynasty

9.3 Qin and Han Dynasties

9.4 Three Kingdoms and Sui Dynasty

9.5 Tang Dynasty

9.6 Five Dynasties and Northern Song Dynasty

9.7 Southern Song Dynasty

9.8 Yuan Dynasty

9.9 Ming,Qing and New China

10．Architecture

Exercises

References