Synopses & Reviews
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.
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
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