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Author(s): Whitfield, Peter
Reader(s): Comberti, Sebastian
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0055
Barcode: 9781843795063
Release Date: 01/2011
WHITFIELD, P.: History of Western Art (The) (Unabridged)
What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities in eras utterly remote from our own? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age—religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece to the revolutionary years of the 19th and 20th centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind. He has always started with reality, but has selected and reshaped that reality to create a parallel world: a world of the imagination.
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Disc 1
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1 | Part One – Art in the Ancient and Classical World | 04:42 |
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2 | Whatever the answer, it is clear these pictures were part… | 04:19 |
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3 | The Civilisations of the Ancient Near East | 06:02 |
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4 | Mesopotamian religion centred on a pantheon of gods… | 06:50 |
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5 | The Art of the Greek World | 06:21 |
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6 | By the 7th century BCE… | 03:42 |
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7 | Vase painting was an intimate, domestic art… | 06:19 |
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8 | The third great manifestation of Greek art… | 04:16 |
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9 | Roman Art | 05:43 |
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10 | It was in architecture that the Romans showed… | 05:50 |
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11 | Christian Art from the Catacombs to the Gothic Cathedrals | 06:13 |
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12 | The most famous of the earlier mosaic churches… | 06:07 |
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13 | In northern Europe, on the eve of Christianisation… | 07:23 |
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14 | Retrospect | 02:44 |
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1 | Part Two: Renaissance and Baroque – Italian Renaissance | 06:33 |
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2 | On the intellectual level… | 04:58 |
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3 | Architecture | 07:12 |
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4 | A Revolution in Painting | 07:25 |
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5 | The High Renaissance | 05:08 |
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6 | The Northern Renaissance | 07:25 |
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7 | Mannerism | 02:25 |
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8 | The Baroque Age | 04:51 |
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9 | The Baroque churches aimed at a fusion of the arts… | 04:22 |
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10 | But what of painting in this age? | 05:58 |
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11 | Painting in the Netherlands | 06:07 |
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12 | The Rococo | 06:47 |
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13 | English Neoclassicism | 04:54 |
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14 | Retrospect | 05:20 |
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1 | The 19th Century – The Age of Revolutions | 06:03 |
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2 | The Forerunners of Romanticism in England | 05:37 |
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3 | France: Classicism and Romanticism | 06:59 |
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4 | Goya – Psychological Realism | 04:48 |
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5 | International Romanticism | 06:19 |
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6 | For Romanticism was international… | 04:48 |
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7 | The Impact of Photography – America | 05:55 |
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8 | In the post-War years American painting came to maturity… | 03:41 |
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9 | French Impressionism | 04:41 |
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10 | The question about reality and truth in art… | 04:07 |
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11 | The Post-Impressionists | 07:44 |
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12 | Symbolist Art | 05:47 |
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13 | Architecture | 05:06 |
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14 | But perhaps the most radical building of the century… | 06:47 |
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1 | The 20th Century | 07:32 |
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2 | The First Two Decades: One Revolution or Many? | 03:18 |
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3 | The second revolutionary surge also came in France… | 04:45 |
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4 | The artistic centres of Germany pushed forward… | 06:31 |
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5 | Futurism was indebted to Cubism… | 05:52 |
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6 | Post-War in Europe | 05:47 |
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7 | De Chirico exemplified an important feature… | 05:39 |
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8 | American Realism | 04:40 |
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9 | American Avant-Garde | 05:49 |
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10 | The culminations of abstract Expressionism came… | 06:09 |
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11 | Art Back in the Real World | 04:32 |
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12 | Photorealism sometimes took a single photograph… | 04:53 |
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13 | As far as the smaller installation is concerned… | 05:50 |
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14 | Modern Architecture | 03:59 |
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15 | Retrospect | 04:12 |
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Total Playing Time: 05:13:46