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How to Read a Painting: Lessons from the Old Masters
by Patrick De Rynck  Publisher Comments Clues to the meaning of many of the masterpieces of art history lie in a rich system of symbols, themes, and motifs that often eludes modern museum-goers. The intimate knowledge of Christian theology, Greek and Roman mythology, and folklore that was so...
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Atlas of Western Art History: Artists, Sites, and Movements from Ancient Greece to the Modern Age
by John Steer Synopsis Arranged chronologically and grouped by historical period and style, this important volume provides a thoroughly new perspective on the development of Western art and architecture, from ancient times to the twentieth century. Edited by a team of...
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Annotated Mona Lisa 2ND Edition
by Carol Strickland Publisher Comments This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital...
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Janson's History of Art: Western Tradition
by H W Janson Synopsis This four-part volume uses an exceptional art program-with sumptuous color pictures-to introduce readers to a succession of art styles from prehistoric times and ancient Egypt, to the vast world of Western painting, sculpture, architecture, photography...
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages : Western Perspective, Volume II - Study Guide (12TH 06 Edition)
by Fred S. Kleiner Publisher Comments The Study Guide will help students not only remember the information presented in each chapter, but also process it on a higher level. The Study Guide focuses on critical analysis of the subject through a workbook section and self-quizzes along with...
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50 Artists You Should Know: From Giotto to Warhol
by Thomas Koster Synopsis Attractive, useful and entertaining, this collection of great artists andgreat art is a course in art history for readers of all ages....
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Art History the Basics
by Grant Pooke Publisher Comments Art History: The Basics is a concise and accessible introduction for the undergraduate approaching the history of art for the first time at college or university, and for anyone else interested in the subject. It will give you answers to questions like...
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Art: A New History
by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments In Art: A New History, Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a world historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say...
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Story of Art 16TH Edition
by E H Gombrich Synopsis The 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art, from the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. New artists have been incorporated such as Corot, Kollwitz and Nolde, and six fold-outs present large-scale works such as Van Eyck's...
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The Story of Art
by E. H. Gombrich Synopsis - A new pocket-sized edition of the most famous and popular book on art ever written - A world-wide bestseller for over half a century - Professor Gombrich's text combines knowledge and wisdom with a unique gift for communicating his deep love of the...
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Gardners Art Through the Ages the W 12TH Edition
by Fred S Kleiner Publisher Comments As the market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. The story of art unfolds in its full...
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30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space
by Inc. (edt) Phaidon Synopsis Presenting 1,000 masterworks of art in simple chronological order, this follow-up to "The Art Book" offers a fresh perspective on the whole of art history, from 28,000 B.C. to the present day....
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Great Masterpieces of the World
by Irene Korn Synopsis These handsomely illustrated volumes offer insight into the lives and works of those few unique individuals whose extraordinary creative genius has affected suceeding generations of artists and altered the way we view the world around us. Here is a...
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The Oxford History of Western Art
by Martin Kemp Publisher Comments The Oxford History of Western Art is an innovative and challenging reappraisal of how the history of art can be presented and understood. Through a carefully devised modular structure, readers are given insights not only into how and why works of art...
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Artforms 6TH Edition
by Duane Preble Publisher Comments This bestseller introduces readers to the theory, practice, and history necessary for an expanded awareness of and enthusiasm for art in everyday life. Increased coverage of female artists and diversity in world arts is included in the Sixth Edition. A...
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Gallery Companion Understanding Western
by Marcus Lodwick Synopsis From Achilles to Zephyr, from Abraham to Ursula, "The Gallery Companion" provides a complete background to the classical and biblical knowledge necessary for a fuller appreciation of paintings....
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Look!
by Anne Dalleva Publisher Comments Written in a casual, personable, and unassuming style, this handbook introduces readers to the basic methods of art history and the visual and contextual analysis of works of art, and teaches them how to use these types of analysis in writing about art...
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Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century
by Robert Goldwater Publisher Comments Excerpts from the writings of painters and sculptors over a period of seven centuries present a highly personal and authentic history of art....
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Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, Circa 1800-1950
by Charles C Eldredge Publisher Comments A celebration of the storytelling tradition in American art. Tales from the Easel features seventy full-color reproductions that convey the expressive, allusive powers of narrative painting. Though they range widely in subject and setting, all of the...
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Perspectives on Western Art (Icon Editions)
by Linnea H Wren Publisher Comments This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson’s History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey’s Gardner’s Art Through the Ages in terms of the ideas, beliefs, and concerns of...
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