Art History, Volume II: 1400—Present

Introduction to Art History is a college-level, introductory textbook that provides an overview of the culturally rich subject of Art History. Volume II covers art from 1400 through the present day. Boundless works with subject matter experts to select the best open educational resources available on the web, review the content for quality, and create introductory, college-level textbooks designed to meet the study needs of university students.


Northern Europe from 1400-1500 -- The Northern Renaissance, Burgandy and Flanders, Flemish Painting, Germany and Switzerland, France, Art on Paper, Holy Roman Empire

 

Italy's Renaissance in the 1400's -- Introduction, Humanism, Florence, The Second Half of the 1400s

 

Art in Commercial and Market Contexts -- Artists, Support for Art Making, Consumption of Art, Non-Preservation of Art

 

Italy in the 1500s -- Sixteenth Century Europe, The High Renaissance, Mannerism, The Counter-Reformation, The Late 1500s in Venice and the Veneto

 

Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula in the 1500's -- The Reformation, The Holy Roman Empire in Germany, France, Spain and Portugal, The Netherlands, England

 

Europe in the 1600's -- The Baroque Period, Italy, Spain, Flanders, The Dutch Republic, France, England

 

South and Southeast Asia After 1200 -- India, Southeast Asia, Mughal Period, India and the West

 

China and Korea After 1279 -- The Mongols, China, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, The Modern Period, Korea

 

Japan After 1333 -- Muromachi Period, Momoyama Period, Edo Period, Modern Period

 

The Americas After 1300 -- Mesoamerica, The Aztecs, South America, The Incas, North America

 

Oceania -- The Rise of Pacific Cultures, Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Modern Oceanic Art

 

Africa in the Modern Period -- Traditional and Contemporary African Culture: A Comparison, The 1800s, The 1900s, Contemporary Art

 

Europe and America in the 1700s and Early 1800s -- Revolution, Rococo, Neoclassicism in Italy, Neoclassicism in Britain, France in the Late 1700s, Spainish Art, Neoclassicism and Romanticism, The Enlightenment

 

Europe and America in the 1800s -- Napoleon, Europe and America in the Second Half of the 1800s, Academic Art in France, Photography, Realism, Impressionism, Rise of Modernism, The Beginning of Modern Architecture, Sculpture

 

Europe and America, 1900-1950 -- Europe, 1900-1920, European Art, Moderism in America, Modern Architecture, America, 1900 to 1930, Europe, 1920-1945, America, 1930-1945, Postwar Art, Abstract Expressionism

 

Global Art Since 1950 -- The World Since 1950, Painting and Sculpture, 1945-1970, The Art World Grows, Painting and Sculpture Since 1970, Dematerialization, Architecture, Postmodernism, The Nineties, New Venues and Forms of Art, Performance Art, Conceptual Art, and New Media