Revel for Art History, Volume 2 -- Combo Access Card

by Stokstad, Marilyn; Cothren, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780135255032
• ISBN10: 0135255031
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2018-07-24
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Revel for Art History, Fifth Edition treats the visual arts as one component of a vibrant cultural landscape, which also includes politics, religion, economics, and more. Taking an inclusive approach that balances formal analysis with contextual art history, authors Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren help students to recognize and appreciate the central role that art and architecture have played in human history. Born of the authors’ vision that survey courses should be filled with as much enjoyment as learning, Revel for Art History fosters an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts.

Revel™ is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel offers an immersive learning experience designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn. Enlivening course content with media interactives and assessments, Revel empowers educators to increase engagement with the course, and to better connect with students.

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Author Biography

Marilyn Stokstad, teacher, art historian, and museum curator, has been a leader in her field for decades and has served as president of the College Art Association and the International Center of Medieval Art. In 2002, she was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the National Women’s Caucus for Art. In 1997, she was awarded the Governor’s Arts Award as Kansas Art Educator of the Year and an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters by Carleton College. She is Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She has also served in various leadership capacities at the University’s Spencer Museum of Art and is Consultative Curator of Medieval Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri

Michael W. Cothren is Scheuer Family Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of Art at Swarthmore College, where he has also served as Coordinator of Medieval Studies and Chair of the Humanities Division.¿ Since arriving at Swarthmore in 1978, he has taught specialized courses on Medieval, Roman, and Islamic art and architecture, as well as seminars on visual narrative and on theory and method, but he particularly enjoys teaching the survey to Swarthmore beginners.¿ His research and publications focus on French Gothic art and architecture, most recently in a book on the stained glass of Beauvais Cathedral entitled Picturing the Celestial City.¿ Michael is a consultative curator at the Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. He has served on the board of the International Center of Medieval Art and as President both of the American Committee of the International Corpus Vitrearum and of his local school board. When not teaching, writing, or pursuing art historical research, you can find him hiking in the red rocks around Sedona, Arizona.

Table of Contents

18. Fourteenth-Century Art in Europe
19. Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe
20. Renaissance Art in Fifteenth-Century Italy
21. Sixteenth-Century Art in Italy
22. Sixteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula
23. Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe
24. Art of South and Southeast Asia after 1200
25. Chinese and Korean Art after 1279
26. Japanese Art after 1333
27. Art of the Americas after 1300
28. Art of Pacific Cultures
29. Art of Africa in the Modern Era
30. Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and North America
31. Mid to Late Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States
32. Modern Art in Europe and the Americas, 1900—1950
33. The International Scene since 1950