Includes bibliographical references and index.

Getting started with Art History. Art tour through the ages -- Why people make art and what it all means -- The major artistic movements -- From caves to the Colosseum : Ancient art. Magical hunters and psychedelic cave artists -- Fickle gods, warrior art, and the birth of writing: Mesopotamian Art -- One foot in the tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art -- Greek Art, the Olympian ego, and the inventors of the Modern World -- Etruscan and Roman Art: It's all Greek to me! -- Art after the fall of Rome : a.d. 500-a.d. 1760. The graven image: early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic art -- Mystics, marauders, and manuscripts: Medieval art -- Born-again culture: The early and high Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North -- Art that'll Stretch your neck: Mannerism -- When the Renaissance went Baroque -- Going loco with Rococo -- The Industrial Revolution and artistic devolution : 1760-1900. All roads lead back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical art -- Romanticism: Reaching within and acting out -- What you see is what you get: Realism -- First impressions: Impressionism -- Making their own impression: The Post-Impressionists -- Twentieth-century art and beyond. From Fauvism to Expressionism -- Cubist puzzles and finding the fast lane with the futurists -- Nonobjective Art: Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism -- Anything-goes art: Fab fifties and psychedelic sixties -- Photography: From a science to an art -- The New World: Postmodern art. -- The part of tens. Ten must see art museums -- Ten great books by ten great artists.