Art History, Volume One

by Stokstad, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780131743205
• ISBN10: 0131743201
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

In tune with today's readersrich but never effetethis istheart history book of choice for a new generation. Presenting 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. 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 Historyis 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: prehistory; art of the ancients (Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, Greece, Etruscan, and Roman); early Christian, Jewish, and Byzantine art; Islamic art; India before 1100; Chinese art before 1280; Japanese art before 1392; art of the Americas before 1300; the art of ancient Africa; early Medieval European art; Romanesque art, and Gothic art.An excellent reference work and beautiful edition for any visual artist.

Table of Contents

Prehistoric Art in Europe

Art of the Ancient Near East

Art of Ancient Egypt

Aegean Art

Art of Ancient Greece

Etruscan and Roman Art

Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art

Islamic Art

Art of South and Southeast Asia before 1200

Chinese and Korean Art before 1279

Japanese Art before 1392

Art of the Americas before 1300

Art of Ancient Africa

Early Medieval Art in Europe

Romanesque Art

Gothic Art of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Fourteenth-Century Art in Europe

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