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Author:   Trudy McNair
Publisher:   Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
Imprint:   Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 27.90cm
ISBN:  

9781465253224

ISBN 10:   146525322
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   21 July 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PREFACE The Pursuit of Beauty Creating a Picture of the Past Understanding the Nature of Art Discovering Our Long Lost Selves Making a Spiritual Pilgrimage to the Past CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS The Scientific Revolution Historical Overview The Scientific Revolution and the Inductive Method Sir Francis Bacon Rene Descartes Copernicus Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe Galileo Sir Isaac Newton The Legacy of the Scientific Revolution England's Industrial Revolution Historical Overview The Textile Industry The Invention of the Steam Engine Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Legacy of the Industrial Revolution Student Exercise Puzzles from the Past: The Search for Longitude The Voyages of Captain Cook Mysterious Easter Island The Satire of Jonathan Swift Historical Overview The Life of Jonathan Swift Irish History and A Modest Proposal Gulliver's Voyages of Self-discovery Think about It CHAPTER 2: THE BALANCE OF POWER AND THE AGE OF ROCOCO The Balance of Power Historical Overview The War of the Spanish Succession The Duke of Marlborough The Age of Rococo in France Historical Overview Rococo Society Portraits from the Past: Madame de Pompadour Rococo Fashions and the Decorative Arts Historical Overview Rococo Fashions Masquerades, Patches, and Wigs Snuffboxes The Porcelain Craze French Rococo Painting Historical Overview The Shimmering World of Jean-Antoine Watteau Francois Boucher Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, the French Vermeer Jean-Honore Fragonard Eighteenth-Century English Society and Art Historical Overview The Moral World of William Hogarth Hogarth's Morality Plays and Prints Sir Joshua Reynolds Thomas Gainsborough Eighteenth-Century Architecture Historical Overview Rococo Architecture in Germany English Neoclassical and Landscape Architecture English Eighteenth-Century Literature Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock The Age of Dr. Johnson Think about It CHAPTER 3: THE AGE OF REASON AND ENLIGHTENED MONARCHS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Age of Reason The Philosophes Historical Overview The English Model The Encyclopedia Portraits from the Past: Voltaire, French Cynic Candide's Journey of Self-discovery The Age of the Enlightened Monarchs Historical Overview The Rise of Prussia and Russia The Bronze Horseman Catherine the Great Maria Theresa and Joseph II Frederick the Great Frederick's Military Tactics Struggle for a Global Empire Historical Overview The War of the Austrian Succession The Seven Years War The American Revolution Historical Overview The Advent of Revolution The Declaration of Independence An Affair of the Mind The Forging of a New Nation Historical Overview The Course of War The Course of Peace A Nation Is Born The Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812 George Washington Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin Think about It CHAPTER 4: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, FRENCH NEOCLASSICAL AND AMERICAN ART, AND CLASSICAL MUSIC Historical Overview The Estates General Court Tennis Portraits from the Past: Queen Marie Antoinette The Fall of the Bastille The Jacobin Club, Robespierre, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man The Day of the Market Women The Role of the Mob The Course of Revolution Historical Overview The End of the Constitutional Monarchy From the Republic to the Terror The Death of Marat and the De-Christianization of France The Death of Marie Antoinette The End of the Terror The Neoclassical Style of Art Historical Overview Women's Voices: The Portraits of Marie Elizabet-Louise Vigee-Lebrun The Politics of Propaganda in the Art of Jacques-Louis David The Louvre Museum American Art and Architecture Historical Overview American Furniture American Architecture American Sculpture American Painting Historical Overview Edward Hicks and Benjamin West The Flourishing of American Art The Classical Period of Music Historical Overview Franz Joseph Haydn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart's Operas Think about It CHAPTER 5: THE AGE OF NAPOLEON AND THE RISE OF ROMANTICISM The Age of Napoleon Historical Overview Portraits from the Past: The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte The Downfall of Napoleon Napoleon's Legacy The Rise of Romanticism Historical Overview Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Edwin Burke David Hume, Thomas Malthus, and Immanuel Kant German Romanticism and Johann Wolfgang Goethe Romantic Painting Historical Overview The Nightmarish Vision of Francisco de Goya Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres Theodore Gericault and Eugene Delacroix English Romantic Poetry Historical Overview The Poetry of Robert Burns The Mystical Vision of William Blake Blake's Philosophy William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley Lord Byron Think about It CHAPTER 6: ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE PAINTING AND MUSIC AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL Romantic Landscape Painting Historical Overview John Constable Joseph Turner Caspar David Friedrich The Transcendentalists The Hudson River School Historical Overview Thomas Cole Frederic Church Martin Johnson Heade and Albert Bierstadt George Catlin's Portraits of Native Americans Romantic Music Historical Overview Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Fryderyk Chopin Verdi and Puccini Richard Wagner The Waltz and the Ballet The English Novel Historical Overview Women's Voices: The Novels of Jane Austen, the Brontes, and Mary Shelley Portraits from the Past: Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas Think about It INDEX

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