Synopses & Reviews
Art across Time seeks to inspire students in their study of art through a combination of large-scale reproductions, extensive use of color photographs, and effective incorporation of contextual material.
Large format illustrations, 80% in color, allow students to appreciate delicacies of technique and detail that are lost in smaller or black and white representations. Similarly, the writing emphasizes the motivations and environment of the artists to give students a sense of the intent or purpose of the work.
The arts of cultures beyond the West are presented thematically and at points of cross-cultural contact—Japan and the Impressionists and Africa and the European Avant-Garde—in Windows on the World sections.
In all, Art across Time, presents the history of art as a dynamic narrative grounded in scholarship, a narrative that is a dialogue between modern viewers and the past.
Synopsis
From prehistoric art to pop art, Art Across Time presents the history of art as a dynamic dialogue between modern viewers and the past. Large-format illustrations -- 80 percent printed in vivid color -- reveal the delicacies of technique, and lively text emphasizes the motivations of the artists.
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
Introduction Why Do We Study the History of Art?
Part I
Chapter 1 The Art of Prehistory
Window on the World: Rock Paintings
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
Chapter 8 Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Window on the World: Developments in Buddhist Art
Part III
Chapter 9 The Early Middle Ages
Window on the World: Mesoamerica (1500 B.C. -A.D. 1500)
Chapter 10 Romanesque Art
Chapter 11 Gothic Art
Window on the World: Buddhist and Hindu Developments in East Asia (6th-13th Century)
Chapter 12 Precursors of the Renaissance
Part IV
Chapter 13 The Early Renaissance
Window on the World: Perspective in Asian Painting
Chapter 14 The High Renaissance in Italy
Chapter 15 Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy
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