Synopses & Reviews
Art across Time speaks to students in a voice they will remember, combining sound scholarship with lively prose enhanced with a lavishly presented program of images. Most of the illustrations are presented in a larger format than in other art history texts to allow students to view details and elements of composition with greater ease and interest.
The new third edition offers a variety of improvements, including new visual Connections between works, increased color and architectural diagrams, an enhanced map program to reinforce geographical context, new boxed readings, and a revised art program and text design.
Art across Time offers readers more than a chronology of art; it introduces political, economic, social, and personal concerns that influence the artists and inform their work, uniquely conveying the ideas, beliefs, and circumstances that inspire creativity.
In addition, the illustration program is available to adopting instructors in digital format in 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.
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...)