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Mp Art Across Time V1/CD 2.0

by Laurie Schneider Adams

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From prehistory through the Fourteenth Century, volume one of Art across Time presents the most accessible survey of art history available. Unencumbered by global flashbacks and confusing concurrent narratives, Art across Time presents a manageable survey that emphasizes art in its cultural and social context.
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About the Author

Laurie Schneider Adams received a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University. She is Professor of Art History at John Jay College, City University of New York, where she teaches art survey, and at the Graduate Center, where she teaches courses on the Italian Renaissance and on Art and Psychoanalysis. She has published articles on iconography and on art and psychology. She is the editor of Giotto in Perspectiveand of the journal Source: Notes in the History of Art; the author of A History of Western Art, The Methodologies of Art, Art and Psychoanalysis, and Art on Trial; and co-author (with Maria Grazia Pernis) of Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Malatesta: The Eagle and the Elephant and of 5 children's books (with Allison Coudert).
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Table of Contents

Art across Time, Volume One

Preface

Introduction: Why Do We Study the History of Art?

Part I

Chapter 1: The Art of Prehistory

Window on the World:Rock Paintings of Australia

Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East

Chapter 3: Ancient Egypt

Chapter 4: The Aegean

Part II

Chapter 5: The Art of Ancient Greece

Chapter 6: The Art of the Etruscans

Window on the World: China: Neolithic to First Empire

Chapter 7: Ancient Rome

Window on the World: Developments in South Asia: The Indus Valley Civilization (to the 3rd century AD)

Chapter 8: Early Christian and Byzantine Art

Part III

Chapter 9: The Early Middle Ages

Chapter 10:Romanesque Art

Chapter 11: Gothic Art

Window on the World:Buddhist and Hindu Developments in East Asia (6th-13th centuries)

Chapter 12: Precursors of the Renaissance

Glossary

Suggestions for Further Reading

Notes

Literary Acknowledgments

Photo Credits

Index

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780073111926
Author:
Adams, Laurie Schneider
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
Author:
Adams, Laurie
Subject:
General
Subject:
History - General
Subject:
History : General
Copyright:
2002
Edition Number:
2
Series Volume:
1
Publication Date:
November 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Dimensions:
10.80x8.64x1.08 in. 4.00 lbs.
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