Contents: Preface. Symbolic Borders and Color Plates. Introduction. Principles and Elements of Art Structure Discovered in Nature. Arts in the Hunting Age. The Arts of Agricultural Man. The Religious Art of Egypt. The Art of Power in Western Asia. The Formative Influence in Greek Art. Greek Art--Social, Political, and Philosophical Backgrounds. The Triumph of the Attic Style I & II. The Art of the Romans. Early Christian and Byzantine Art. The Art of Crusading Peoples. The Gothic Style in North and South. The Arts of Asia--East and West. The Renaissance. The Baroque Styles and the Rise of the Classical Academies. Romanticism in the Ninteenth Century. The Art of the Twentieth Century. The Art of the Americans. Conclusion. Chart of Independence of Cultural Styles. Index.
