Synopses & Reviews
In tune with today's readers–rich but never effete–this is the art history book of choice for a new generation. Presenting a broad view of art from the early Renaissance in Europe through the Avant Garde since 1945, it sympathetically and positively introduces the works of all artists. This includes women, artists of color, and the arts of other continents and regions, as well as those of Western Europe and the United States. The new edition contains even more full-color reproductions, larger images, redrawn maps and timelines, and new photographs and higher quality images. Balancing both the traditions of art history and new trends of the present, Art History is the most comprehensive, accessible, and magnificently illustrated work of its kind. Broad in scope and depth, this beautifully illustrated work features art from the following time periods and places: Renaissance art; Baroque art; art of the Pacific cultures; the rise of modern art; and the international Avant-Garde since 1945. An excellent reference work and beautiful edition for any visual artist.
Synopsis
Art History: A View of the West presents a broad view of art from Gothic Age through to present day, it sympathetically and positively introduces the works of all artists. This includes women, artists of color, and the arts of other continents and regions, as well as those of Western Europe and the United States. Broad in scope and depth, this beautifully illustrated work features art from the following time periods and places: Renaissance art; Baroque art; the rise of modern art; and the international Avant-Garde since 1945.
Marilyn Stokstad has been introducing the history of art to students and to the public for more than forty years, nurturing an educated, enthusiastic audience for the arts. She firmly believes that everyone can and should enjoy their introduction to art history. Only then will they learn to appreciate art as the most tangible creation of the human imagination.
Table of Contents
Chapter 17 - Fourteenth-Century Art in Europe
Chapter 18 - Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula
Chapter 19 - Renaissance Art in Fifteenth Century Italy
Chapter 20 - Sixteenth-Century Art in Italy
Chapter 21 - Sixteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula
Chapter 22 - Baroque Art
Chapter 23 - Art of South and Southeast Asia after 1200
Chapter 24 - Chinese and Korean Art after 1279
Chapter 25 - Japanese Art after 1392
Chapter 26 - Art of the Americas after 1300
Chapter 27 - Art of Pacific Cultures
Chapter 28 - Art of Africa in the Modern Era
Chapter 29 - Eighteenth-Century Art in Europe and the Americas
Chapter 30 - Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States
Chapter 31 - Modern Art in Europe and the Americas, 1900–1945
Chapter 32- The International Scene Since 1945