Synopses & Reviews
Art across Time combines sound scholarship, lavish visuals, and a lively narrative to provide students with a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging introduction to Art History. Popular with majors and non-majors alike, the text offers readers more than a chronology of art by placing each work within the time-and-place context within which it was created. Encountering and interpreting a work of art in context offers the reader the richest possible experience of it. Large scale and high quality visual reproductions of artworks are often presented from multiple perspectives to enhance visual appeal and allow students to view details and elements of composition with greater ease. A thoughtful pedagogical approach helps students consider what they are viewing.
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
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 Chapter 22: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism Chapter 23: Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century PART VII
Chapter 24: Turn of the Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse Chapter 25: Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles Chapter 26: Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, and the United States between the Wars Chapter 27: Mid-Century Abstraction Chapter 28: Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism Chapter 29: Innovation, Continuity, and Globalization Notes Glossary Suggestions for Further Reading Literary Acknowledgments Acknowledgments Picture Credits Index