Main entry:

Gealt, Adelheid M.

Title & Author:

Looking at art : a visitor's guide to museum collections / Adelheid M. Gealt.

Publication:

New York : R.R. Bowker, 1983.

Description:

xviii, 609 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-565) and index.
The history of collecting and growth of art museums -- How museums build collections -- The functions and organization of art museum -- Art of the ancient world: Egyptian art ; Aegean art ; Greek art ; Etruscan art ; Roman art ; Art of the ancient world: major collections. -- Early Christian and Byzantine art ; Early Christian and Byzantine art, major collections. -- Medieval art, 1250-1400: Italian art ; Northern European art ; Medieval artists, 1250-1400 ; Medieval art: major collections. -- Renaissance art, 1400-1600: The fifteenth century ; Fifteenth-century Italian art ; Fifteenth-century Flemish and Dutch art ; Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German art ; The sixteenth century ; Sixteenth-century Italian art ; Sixteenth-century Flemish and Dutch art ; Sixteenth-century French art ; Renaissance artists, 1400-1600 ; Renaissance art: major collections. -- Seventeenth-century art: Italian art ; Dutch art ; Flemish art ; French art ; Spanish art ; Seventeenth-century artists ; Seventeenth-century art: major collections. -- Eighteenth-century art: Italian art ; French art ; English art ; Eighteenth-century art ; Eighteen-century art: major collections. -- Nineteenth century art: Painting (neoclassicism, academic art, romanticism, realism and naturalism, painters of contemporary society, impressionism, symbolism, art nouveau) ; Drawing ; Printmaking ; Sculpture ; Photography ; Nineteenth-century artists ; Nineteenth-century art: major collections. -- Twentieth-century art: Cubism ; Synchromism ; Orphism ; Rayonism ; Fauvism ; Expressionism ; Futurism ; Vorticism ; Suprematism ; Dada ; Surrealism ; Constructivism ; The Bauhaus ; De Stijl ; Purism ; School of Paris ; Photo secession gallery "291" ; Abstract expressionism ; American realism ; Pop art ; Minimal art ; Op art ; Twentieth-century artists ; Twentieth-century art: major collections. -- Asian art: Indian art ; Chinese art ; Japanese art ; Asian art: major collections. -- Pre-Columbian art: Central America; South America ; Pre-Columbian art: major collections. -- Tribal arts: The arts of Africa and Oceania ; Tribal arts: major collections.

Summary:

This handbook of art will give you brief overviews of art movements and periods, and the artists associated with each.

ISBN:

0835217302
9780835217309
0835217310 (pbk.)
9780835217316 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art Collectors and collecting History.
Art museums History.
Art History.
Art appreciation History.
Art Museums History.
Art Collectionneurs et collections Histoire.
Art Musées Histoire.
Art Histoire.
Art Appréciation Histoire.
art history.
Art.
Art appreciation.
Art Collectors and collecting.
Art museums.
Art Appréciation.
Art Musées.
Art Collectionneurs et collections.
Visual arts, to 1982

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 129799
Call No.: PO140 N5200 REF; ID:86-B6959
Status: Available