Art History - Call for Authors

ABC-CLIO is completing a 21 volume World History Encyclopedia. We are
looking for qualified scholars to prepare 500-1500 word articles in the
following areas: Art History, Architecture, and Design.

All contributors will receive writing credits and free access to the online
version of the completed encyclopedia. Contributors of more than 3,000 words
will also receive credits towards purchase of ABC-CLIO books.

If you are interested in writing 1 or more of these entries, please send a
1-2 page c.v. and, if possible, a short writing sample to Fred Nadis and/or
Monique Vallance:
FNadisabc-clio.com
MVallanceabc-clio.com

WORLD HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA - LIST OF AVAILABLE ENTRIES- ART HISTORY

ERA 1: to 4000 BCE
c. violence and conflict in Australian Aboriginal art

ERA 2: 4000BCE-1000BCE
3. Artistic Conventions for Depicting the Environment
8. Symbolism of early Chinese Capitals
9. Representations of the World and Cosmos in Chinese tomb décor
2. Nuraghi
7. Ziggurats and Gardens of Mesopotamia
8. Monumental Architecture in India
9. Shang Wallled Cities
11. Mesoamerica
12. Ceremonial Architecture and the Kotosh Religious Tradition
3. Harrapan Cities
5. Jomon Houses
5. Houses in the Bronze Age Chiefdoms
7. Early Mesoamerican Houses
1. Tassili n’ Ajjer Rock Painting
5. Near Eastern Art
6. The Art of the Indus Valley
8. Shang Art
9. European Art
10. Mesoamerica and the Andes
3. Mesopotamian Accounts of Foreign Lands
4. Late Mycenaean Travel in The Odyssey
5. Travel in the Vedas
1. Royal Inscriptions
3. Literature and Kingship
4. Hymns and Prayers: Government and Religion
1. Monumental Inscriptions
2. Monumental Art
3. Narratives of Warfare
3. Greek Temples
6. Shang Temples
7. European Enclosures, Caves , and Shafts

ERA 3: 1000BCE -300CE
Hellenistic and Roman landscape painting
Hellenistic and Latin pastoral poetry
Symbolism of Early Chinese capitals
Representations of the World and Cosmos in Chinese tomb décor
Chavin images of the landscape in pottery and steles
Nazca and Paracas landscape images on pottery, textiles, and the landscape
itself (Nazca lines) and Moche pottery
Evidence of criminal punishments on Moche pottery
Early popular literature in India
Earliest domestic complexes at Teotihuacan
Evidence for elite architecture in the Andean region
Late Vedic funerary monuments
Late Jomon and Yayoi funerary sculpture
Textiles as marks of status in Central Asian burials
Olmec Burials and caches
Paracas burials and their textiles
Chinese art pre-Qin
Chinese Art Qin and Han
Olmec style horizon
The development of state sponsored architecture and art in Near East
(Palace/temple complexes of region) (300 words)
The development of the great royal burials in Warring States period
Development of polis based public art beginning with the temple buildings in
the western colonies and culminating in the building of the Parthenon
Spread of Greek culture and art as aspects of imperial administration
Spread of Roman urban forms throughout the Mediterranean as aspects of the
Empire.
Spread of talud-tablero style of building
Olmec ruler images in association with altars
Possible Moche ruler portraits
Mounds used to mark territory in Mid-west
Development of elite craft art among the people of MesoAmerica
Development of elite craft art among the people of Andean region
Assyrian battle reliefs
Greek celebration of victory over Persia
West Mexican images of war
Jewish Temple images
Development of Greek and Roman religious art and architecture
Early Christian art

ERA 4: 300-1000 CE
6. Religious and Mundane Architecture in India 300 – 1000
8. Mosques and Cathedrals
3. Painting and Sculpture: The Chinese Tradition
2. Religious Art in Early Medieval Africa South of the Sahara
3. Early Medieval Islamic religious art
4. early Medieval Hindu Religious Art
Buddhist Art on the Silk Road

ERA 5: 1000-1500 CE
Sub-Saharan Art of Nature
The Natural World in the Art of High Medieval India
Animal Art of Inner Asia
The Artists of Sub-Saharan Africa
From Song through Early Ming: From Delicate Ceramics to Massive Imperial
Structures
Japan: An Indigenous Aesthetic
Western Europe: Cathedrals and Ivories, Tapestries and Reliquaries
Was There a Pacific Rim Style?
Art for the Gods in Mesoamerica
Petrographs and Petroglyphs in North America
Hindu and Muslim Cross-Fertilization in India
Japan: The Empire of Sensibility
China: The Marriage of Foreign Influences and Native Genius: Plays and
Novels
The Literature of War: From Japan to Western Europe
War through Artistic Eyes: From Japan to Western Europe
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: The Literature of Peace across the
Afro-Eurasian World

ERA 6: 1450-1770
The Aesthetics of Diplomacy: Representations of Diplomatic Encounters

ERA 7: 1750-1914
Climate and the Painter’s Eye
European Influences on Indian Painting: 1700s and 1800s 600
Symbolist Literature
Music
The Beginnings of Modern Architecture

ERA 8: 1900-45
Expressionism - Lit, Theater, Art

Era 9: 1945-present
Modernism in Architecture
Theater of the Absurd
anti-war in art, literature, film