Art History : A View of the West: Volume Two

by Stokstad, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780131565777
• ISBN10: 013156577X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Art Historypresents a broad view of art from prehistory through the Gothic Age, 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

Fourteenth-Century Art in Europe

Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula

Renaissance Art in Fifteenth Century Italy

Sixteenth-Century Art in Italy

Sixteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula

Baroque Art

Eighteenth-Century Art in Europe and the Americas

Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States

Modern Art in Europe and the Americas, 1900-1945

The International Scene Since 1945

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