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Art of the Non-Western World: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

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Art of the Non-Western World: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas gives students the tools to better understand and appreciate the arts in a global world. It offers an in-depth, contextual exploration of the art from the larger world beyond the European tradition, including painting, sculpture, pottery, graphic arts, and architecture of Asia, the Americas, Africa, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, from the Neolithic to the Contemporary. All new print and electronic versions of Art of the Non-Western World come with access to a full suite of engaging digital learning tools.

Table of Contents:
Introduction xix CHAPTER 1. MESOAMERICA Map of Mesoamerica Brief Overview Chapter Objectives Timeline The Early or Pre-Classic Period (c. 2000 BCE-100 CE) The Olmec (c. 1500-400 BCE) Map of Olmec Heartland La Venta, Mesoamerica's First Art Center (1200-400 BCE) Monumental Architecture at La Venta Early Olmec Sculpture Late Olmec Sculpture --Visual Comparison: La Venta Altar 4 and San Lorenzo Monument The Middle or Classic Period (c. 100-900 CE) Map of Teotihuacan/Maya regions Teotihuacan (c. 400 BCE-750 CE) Monumental Architecture and City Planning --Take a Closer Look: Talud-Tablero Construction Palaces and Apartments --Take a Closer Look: The Art of Fresco Painting Teotihuacan Ceramics The Maya Realms (250-900 CE) Tikal, Guatemala (c. 800 bce-850 CE) Tikal Style Stelae Lord Jasaw Chan K'awiil and the Tikal Style of Architecture Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico Pakal the Great and the Palenque Architectural Style Maya Mural Painting --The Late or Post-Classic Period (900-1450 CE) Post-Classic Maya Map showing Aztec, Toltec, and Yucatan sites The Puuc Style in Architecture Uxmal, Yucatan (700-1100 CE) The Toltecs (c. 900-1168 CE) Tula The Mexica or "Aztecs" (1100-1521 CE) Religion and Philosophy: Aztec Gods Tenochtitlan The Sacred Precinct and Templo Mayor, 1487 CE The Colonial Period: Native Artists in Mexico (1533-1821 CE) The Christian-Indigenous Style Indigenous Artists in the Modern Era (1821-1950 CE) Chapter Quick Review Chapter Questions Key Terms and Figures CHAPTER 2. SOUTH AMERICA Map of South America and Isthmus Brief Overview Chapter Objectives Timeline The Early Cultures (2200 BCE-200 CE) Cerro Sechín (2200-1600 BCE) The Central Structure Chavín de Huántar (1200-500 BCE) Early Architecture Black and White Phase Late Chavin Sculpture Paracas (400 BCE-200 CE) Textiles and Mummy Bundles Paracas Ceramics Religion and Philosophy: Andean Pantheons The Middle Period Cultures (200-1000 CE) Nasca (200 BCE-650 CE) Nasca Architecture Geoglyphs: Nasca Desert Lines and Zoomorphs, c. 500 BCE-500 CE Nasca Ceramics Nasca Textiles Moche (c. 200-850 CE) The Huacas of Moche Moche Fineline Painted Ceramics Moche Modeled Ceramics Moche Metallurgy The First Andean Empires (200 BCE-1000 CE) Tiahuanaco (200 BCE-1000 CE) Huari (600-1000 CE) Colombia and the Isthmus (c. 100-1200 CE) --Take a Closer Look : Seeing the Form in Huari Textiles San Agustin, Colombia (100-900 CE) Costa Rica (500-1200 CE) The Late Period (1200-1550 CE) Map of Inca Empire The Inca Empire (c. 1438-1533 CE) Inca Architecture in Cuzco Machu Picchu, c. 1450 CE Inca Rock Carving Inca Ceramics Inca Textiles The Colonial Period Painting in the Colonial Andes Tapestries and Weaving in the Colonial Andes Contemporary Indigenous Artists Chapter Quick Review Chapter Questions Key Terms and Figures CHAPTER 3. NORTH AMERICA Map of North America Brief Overview Chapter Objectives Timeline The Early Period (4000-1000 BCE) Watson Brake, (c. 3500-2800 BCE) Poverty Point, (c. 1730-1100 BCE) The Middle Period Cultures (c. 1000 BCE-500 CE) Adena Culture (500 BCE-500 CE) The Hopewell Culture (c. 200 BCE-400 CE) Ancestral Puebloan (50-400 CE) The Late Period Civilizations (c. 700-1550 CE) Mississippian Cultures (800-1600 CE) Cahokia (1050-1350 CE) Spiro (950-1400 CE) Etowah, Georgia (c. 950-1550 CE) Peoples of the Southwest (500-1300 CE) Ancestral Puebloan (650-1285 CE) Hohokam (1150-1450 CE) The Mimbrenos-Mogollon People (c. 1000-1130 CE) The Colonial Period (c. 1540-1900 CE) The Southwest Diné (Navajo) Weaving California Pomo Baskets The Great Plains Buffalo Hide Paintings The Northwest Coast Cedar Plank Houses Totem Poles and Potlatches Chilkat Blankets The Inuit --Take a Closer Look: Reading Panel Design in Chilkat Blankets Yupik Winter Ceremonials: Qasgiqs and Masked Dances Eastern Woodlands Iroquoian False Face Societies --Take a Closer Look: The Santa Fe Indian School and Studio Style Chapter Quick Review Chapter Questions Key Terms and Figures CHAPTER 4. ART OF AFRICA Map of Africa Brief Overview Chapter Objectives Timeline Early Africa (100,000-1000 BCE) Paleolithic to Neolithic Art (c. 70,000-10,000 BCE) Rock Shelter Art in Africa (c. 10,000 BCE-1000 CE) Egypt (c. 7000 BCE-1070 BCE) The Early Nile Cultures (c. 5500-3100 BCE) The Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom (c. 3100-2160 BCE) Architecture in the Old Kingdom (c. 2780-2280 BCE) Sculpture in the Old Kingdom Visual Comparison: Conventions of the Ka Statue The Middle Kingdom (c. 2055-1650 BCE) The New Kingdom (c. 1570-1070 BCE) Hatshepsut: Queen and King of Egypt Akhenaten and the Amarna Revolution The Land of Kush (3100 BCE-339 CE) The First and Second Kingdoms Ancient Ethiopia (c. 500 BCE-1270 CE) The Kingdom of Aksum (c. 500 BCE-940 CE) The Zagwe Dynasty (c. 940-1270 CE) Southeastern Africa (1100-1550 CE) Great Zimbabwe, c. 1275-1550 CE The Niger River and the Cultures of West Africa, (500 BCE-1900 CE) Nok Igbo-Ukwu Sacred Ilé-Ifè The Kingdom of Benin The Arts in Colonial Africa Text Box: Islam in Africa: A Comparison of the Mosques of Kairouan and Djenné Take a Closer Look: Afro-Portuguese Ivories: The First Tourist Art The Dogon The Yoruba The Asante Modern Africa Chapter Quick Review Chapter Questions Key Terms and Figures CHAPTER 5. WEST ASIA Map of West Asia Brief Overview Chapter Objectives Timeline Neolithic West Asia (9000-1500 BCE) Rock Art of the Jubbah Plain (c. 7000-1500 BCE) Ancient Jericho (Tell es-Sultan), Palestine (c. 8500-6000 BCE) Çatal Hüyük, Turkey (c. 7500 bce-5700 BCE) Architecture in Çatal Hüyük Sculpture in Çatal Hüyük Ancient Mesopotamia (5500-500 BCE) Sumer (c. 5400-2350 BCE) Akkadian Empire (c. 2334-2154 BCE) Neo-Sumerian Empire (c. 2112-2004 BCE) Old Babylon (c. 1792-1595 BCE) Ashur and the Assyrian Empires (c. 2400-609 BCE) The Neo-Babylonian Empire (c. 626-539 BCE) Ancient Iran (4000-330 BCE) Elam (c. 1400-1100 BCE) Achaemenid Persia (c. 775-330 BCE) Cyrus II's Pasargadae Darius I's Persepolis (Takt-e Jamshid) The Sasanian Persian Empire (224-651 CE) Religion and Philosophy: Islam The Islamic Caliphates (632-1258 CE) The Umayyad Dynasty (661-750 CE) The Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258 CE) Abbasid City Design: Baghdad and Samarra Ottoman Empire (1299-1922 CE) Ottoman Architecture Koca Mimar Sinan (c. 1489/90-1588 CE) Miniature Painting under the Ottomans Visual Comparison: Mosque Layouts Safavid Persia (c. 1501-1722 CE) Contemporary Islamic Art Chapter Quick Review Chapter Questions Key Terms and Figures CHAPTER 6. INDIA Map of India Brief Overview Chapter Objectives Timeline The Indus Valley Civilization (3300-300 BCE) Indus Architecture Indus Sculpture Indus Valley Seals The Evolution of Indus Civilization The Maurya Empire (322 BCE-185 CE) Religion and Philosophy: Santana Dharma or Hinduism Religion and Philosophy: Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism The Kushan Empire (135 BCE-280 CE) The Gupta Dynasty (320-486 CE) Religion and Philosophy: Lakshana of the Buddha The Hindu Temple (600-1665 CE) Dravida or Southern Style Temples Hindu Temple Sculpture: Chola Bronzes The Nagara or Northern Style Hindu Temples Muslim India (1175-1707 CE) The Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526 CE) The Mughal Empire (1526-1707 CE) The Mughal School of Miniature Painting Mughal Architecture The British Raj (1858-1947) --Visual Comparison: Gur Emir, Tomb of Humayun, and Taj Mahal Map of British Controlled Territory in India Indian Art after Independence (1947-) Pakistani Art after Independence (1947-) Chapter Quick Review Chapter Questions Key Terms and Figures CHAPTER 7. SOUTHEAST ASIA Map of Southeast Asia Brief Overview Chapter Objectives Timeline Neolithic Southeast Asia (4,000 BCE-300 CE) Ban Chiang Culture (c. 3600 BCE-200 CE) Sa Huynh Culture (1000 BCE-200 CE) Dong Son Culture (c. 600 BCE-200 CE) Indianization and Sinification in Medieval Southeast Asia (c. 500-1500) The Khmer Empire, Cambodia (802-1431 CE) Angkor Wat, c. 1113-1145 CE Visual Comparison: Angkor Temples Kingdom of Sukhothai, Thailand (1238-1438 CE) Kingdom of Ayutthaya (1351-1767 CE) Maritime Southeast Asia: Indonesia (700-900 CE) Islam in Southeast Asia Sinification in Vietnam Vietnamese Ceramics Colonialism, Nationalism, and Modern Art in Southeast Asia (1511-1947) Independent Thailand: The Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782-1932 CE) Academies in Colonial Southeast Asia Colonial Architecture Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia Chapter Quick Review Chapter Questions Key Terms and Figures CHAPTER 8. CHINA Map of China Brief Overview Chapter Objectives Timeline Neolithic China (c. 18,000-2,000 BCE) Yangshao Culture (c. 5000-3000 BCE) The Three Dynasties Period (2070-221 BCE) --Take a Closer Look: Chinese Jade Kong and Bi The Xia Dynasty (c. 2070-1600 BCE) The Shang Dynasty (1766-1111 BCE) Shang Bronzes Text Box: Piece-mold Casting The Zhou (1100-221 BCE) Western Zhou Period (1100-771 BCE) Eastern Zhou Period (770-221 BCE) Spring and Autumn Period (771-476 BCE) The Warring States Period (476-221 BCE) Religion and Philosophy: Confucianism and later Neo-Confucianism The Qin Empire (221-207 BCE) The Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) Han Tombs The Period of Disunity (220-581 CE) The Northern Wei (396-589 CE) --Visual Comparison: Gandharan Influences on Early Chinese Buddhist Art The Six Dynasties (222-589 CE) The Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) Tang Ceramics Tang Painting Buddhist Art in the Tang Dynasty The Sung Dynasty (960-1279 CE) Northern Sung Painting (c. 960-1126 CE) Take a Closer Look: Painting Formats in East Asia Southern Sung Painting (c. 1127-1279 CE) Buddhist Art during the Southern Sung The Yuan (Mongolian) Dynasty (1279-1368) The Literati Painters The Ming or "Radiant" Dynasty (1368-1644) Painting in the Ming Dynasty The Qing Dynasty (1644 ce-1911 CE) The People's Republic of China (1949-) Art after Mao (1976-) Chapter Quick Review Chapter Questions Key Terms and Figures CHAPTER 9. KOREA AND JAPAN Map of Korea and Japan Brief Overview Chapter Objectives Timeline Neolithic Korea (8000-1500 BCE) Three Kingdoms Period (c. 57 BCE-668 CE) Kingdom of Goguryeo (37 BCE-668 CE) Baekje (18 bce-660 CE) Silla and Unified Silla Kingdoms (57 BCE-935 CE) The Unified Silla (668-935 CE) The Later Three Kingdoms and the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392 CE) Great Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) Silhak Movement Korean Art in the Modern Era Neolithic Japan (12,000-300 BCE) The Yayoi Period (900 BCE-300 CE) The Kofun Period (250-538 CE) The Asuka Period (c. 538-710) Religion and Art: Shinto, the Way of the Gods Shintoism in Japan Buddhism in Japan Visual Comparison: Korean influence on Tori Busshi's Shakya Triad The Nara Period (710-784 CE) Heian Period (794-1185 CE) Take a Closer Look: Single Block and Joined-Block Carving The Kamakura Period (1192-1333 CE) The Muromachi Period (1336-1573 CE) Zen Buddhism Take a Closer Look: Sen no Rikyu's Taian Teahouse c. 1582-1583 CE Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1573-1603 CE) The Edo Period (1603-1867) The Meiji Period (1868-1912) Post-War Japan (1926-) Chapter Quick Review Chapter Questions Key Terms and Figures Quick Pronunciation Guide CHAPTER 10. OCEANIA Map of Australia and the Pacific Islands Brief Overview Chapter Objectives Timeline Australia Early Rock Art Mimi Paintings X-Ray Style Paintings Rock Engravings Bark Paintings Modern and Contemporary Aboriginal Art (1930-) The Hermannsburg Painters (1934-1960) The Western Desert Art Movement (1972-) Utopia Settlement and Women Painters (1988-) Melanesia New Guinea The Asmat --Take a Closer Look: Anatomy of an Asmat Bis Pole The Massim Area The Sepik River Cultures Iatmul Abelam New Ireland and the Tabar Islands Malangan Contemporary Art in Melanesia Micronesia Map of Micronesia Polynesia Samoa and the Art of Barkcloth Hawaii and the Art of Featherwork Rapa Nui and the Moai Aotearoa (New Zealand) and the Art of the Maori Marae Maori Modernism Chapter Quick Review Chapter Questions Key Terms and Figures Quick Pronunciation Guide Bibliography Photo Credits Index


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  • ISBN-13: 9780190263102
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 251 mm
  • No of Pages: 624
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 1087 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0190263105
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jan 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
  • Width: 178 mm


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