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The story of painting / Wendy Beckett. Sister Wendy's story of painting / Wendy Beckett.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Dorling Kindersley, 1994.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 400 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 1564586154 :
  • 0751301337
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709 BEC
Contents:
Introduction: painting before Giotto -- Gothic painting -- The Italian Renaissance -- The Northern Renaissance -- Baroque and Rococo -- Neoclassicism and Romanticism -- The Age of Impressionism -- Post-Impressionism -- The 20th Century.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 709 BEC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000198706

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Not since Gombrich's Story of Art has a popular guide to painting been so accessible and influential. This stunning guide to 800 years of Western art moves effortlessly from Byzantium to Bauhaus via 750 full-color photographs and illustrations, and Sister Wendy's benchmark style: informative, conversational, engaging. Movements are highlighted, as are individual artists, and the various techniques they use as masters are brilliantly exposed.

Introduction: painting before Giotto -- Gothic painting -- The Italian Renaissance -- The Northern Renaissance -- Baroque and Rococo -- Neoclassicism and Romanticism -- The Age of Impressionism -- Post-Impressionism -- The 20th Century.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: Painting Before Giotto (p. 8)
  • The First Paintings (p. 10)
  • The Ancient World (p. 12)
  • Early Christian and Medieval Art (p. 24)
  • Gothic Painting (p. 36)
  • Early Gothic Art (p. 40)
  • International Gothic Style (p. 54)
  • Innovation in the North (p. 60)
  • Late Gothic Painting (p. 71)
  • The Italian Renaissance (p. 78)
  • The Early Renaissance (p. 82)
  • Renaissance Venice (p. 106)
  • The High Renaissance (p. 116)
  • The Italian Mannerist Period (p. 139)
  • The Northern Renaissance (p. 148)
  • Durer and German Portraiture (p. 152)
  • Northern Mannerism (p. 163)
  • Northern Landscape Tradition (p. 166)
  • Baroque and Rococo (p. 172)
  • Italy: A Catholic Vision (p. 176)
  • Flemish Baroque (p. 186)
  • Spanish Baroque (p. 193)
  • A Dutch Protestant Vision (p. 200)
  • France: A Return to Classicism (p. 216)
  • Rococo (p. 224)
  • Neoclassicism and Romanticism (p. 236)
  • The British School (p. 240)
  • Goya (p. 248)
  • The Neoclassical School (p. 253)
  • The Great French Romantics (p. 259)
  • Romantic Landscapes (p. 264)
  • The Age of Impressionism (p. 272)
  • The Pre-Raphaelites (p. 276)
  • Realism in France (p. 279)
  • The Influence of Manet and Degas (p. 284)
  • The Great Impressionists (p. 294)
  • American Vision (p. 302)
  • Post-Impressionism (p. 306)
  • Post-Impressionist Artists (p. 310)
  • The Influence of Symbolism (p. 321)
  • The Nabis (p. 326)
  • The 20th Century (p. 330)
  • Fauvism (p. 334)
  • Matisse, Master of Color (p. 336)
  • Expressionism (p. 340)
  • Artistic Emigres (p. 344)
  • Picasso and Cubism (p. 346)
  • The Age of Machinery (p. 351)
  • Toward Abstraction (p. 353)
  • Paul Klee (p. 356)
  • Pure Abstraction (p. 359)
  • Art of the Fantastic (p. 361)
  • Pre-War American Painting (p. 366)
  • Abstract Expressionism (p. 368)
  • American Colorists (p. 375)
  • Minimalism (p. 377)
  • Pop Art (p. 380)
  • European Figurative Painting (p. 383)
  • Epilogue (p. 388)
  • Glossary (p. 390)
  • Index (p. 391)
  • Picture Credits (p. 398)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Wendy Mary Beckett was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on February 25, 1930. At the age of 16, she joined the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, a teaching order, as Sister Michael of St. Peter. She became Sister Wendy after Vatican reforms relaxed formalities. She studied literature at Oxford University in the early 1950s. After returning to South Africa, she taught for 15 years at a Cape Town convent and later lectured at Johannesburg's University of Witwatersrand. After suffering three grand mal seizures and learning that she had a form of epilepsy, she received Vatican consent to give up teaching for a life of solitude. In 1970, she returned to England and moved into the trailer at the Carmelite Monastery.

She wrote approximately 25 books art and religion including Contemporary Women Artists and Sister Wendy on Prayer. In 1991, a BBC producer persuaded her to do a documentary about Britain's National Gallery, talking about its paintings. She went on to star in several more BBC documentaries including Sister Wendy's Odyssey, Sister Wendy's Grand Tour, and Sister Wendy's Story of Painting. She assigned all her earnings to the Carmelite order that sheltered her. She died on December 26, 2018 at the age of 88.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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