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Art Across Time 3/E Combined

by Laurie Schneider Adams

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Art across Time combines sound scholarship and lively prose, engaging students with both its narrative and its lavish visual program. Popular with majors and non-majors alike, Art across Time offers readers more than a chronology of art; it discusses political, economic, social, and personal concerns that influence the artists and inform their work, uniquely conveying the ideas, beliefs, and circumstances that inspire creativity. Visual reproductions in the text are larger in scale and higher in quality than those in other art history texts, enhancing visual appeal and allowing students to view details and elements of composition with greater ease.

The new third edition is enhanced by new visual connections between works, more use of color and architectural diagrams, an enhanced map program, new boxed readings, and more. In addition, the text's illustration program is now available to adopting instructors in digital format via The Image Vault--McGraw-Hill's new Web-based presentation manager. Instructors can incorporate images from The Image Vault in digital presentations that can be used in class offline, burned to CD-ROM, or embedded in course Web pages. See www.mhhe.com/theimagevault for more details!

Book News Annotation:

The size of a hefty phone book, Schneider's 3d ed. is notable for the wealth of good quality color plates of the art works discussed, including multiple views of a single object. Many inset boxes containing definitions and discussion of concepts and terminology are included. The text is focused on art of the west but includes occasional 2-page discussions, with images, of the artistic approaches employed elsewhere in the world during the same time period. Another feature is the addition to the text of images of comparative works of art, identified as "connections". Unusual for being written by a single author, rather than the more common method of a team, this is a solid, coherent introduction to a vast field, ranging from prehistory to art made at the end of the 20th century.
Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book News Annotation:

The size of a hefty phone book, Schneider's 3d ed. is notable for the wealth of good quality color plates of the art works discussed, including multiple views of a single object. Many inset boxes containing definitions and discussion of concepts and terminology are included. The text is focused on art of the west but includes occasional 2-page discussions, with images, of the artistic approaches employed elsewhere in the world during the same time period. Another feature is the addition to the text of images of comparative works of art, identified as "connections". Unusual for being written by a single author, rather than the more common method of a team, this is a solid, coherent introduction to a vast field, ranging from prehistory to art made at the end of the 20th century. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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).

Table of Contents

Brief Contents

Preface

Introduction: Why Do We Study the History of Art?

PART I

Chapter 1: The Art of Prehistory

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

Chapter 7: Ancient Rome

Chapter 8: Early Christian and Byzantine Art

PART III

Chapter 9: The Early Middle Ages

Chapter 10: Romanesque Art

Chapter 11: Gothic Art

Chapter 12: Precursors of the Renaissance

PART IV

Chapter 13: The Early Renaissance

Chapter 14: The High Renaissance in Italy

Chapter 15: Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy

Chapter 16: Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe

PART V

Chapter 17: The Baroque Style in Western Europe

Chapter 18: Rococo and the Eighteenth Century

PART VI

Chapter 19: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 20: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 21: Nineteenth-Century Realism

(and more...)

Product Details

ISBN:
9780072965254
Author:
Adams, Laurie Schneider
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
Author:
Adams, Laurie
Author:
Adams Laurie
Subject:
General
Subject:
History - General
Subject:
History
Subject:
Art
Subject:
History : General
Subject:
Art history
Subject:
Art-History and Criticism
Copyright:
Edition Number:
3
Publication Date:
March 2006
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
1080
Dimensions:
10.88x8.52x2.02 in. 7.50 lbs.

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