Art Across Time [Box set] [Paperback]

Laurie Schneider Adams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1998 | ISBN-10: 0697274780 | ISBN-13: 978-0697274786

Broadening the scope of the author's "History of Western Art", this text integrates "Windows on the World" sections throughout to address the art, artists, and cultures of societies the world over. It provides an understanding of the ideas, beliefs and circumstances that inspire creativity.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1024 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0697274780
• ISBN-13: 978-0697274786
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,417,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Laurie Schneider Adams received her Phd in art history from Columbia University. She is professor emerita at John jay College, CUNY, where she taught art history for 45 years. At the CUNY graduate center she taught Italian Renaissance art, art and psychoanalysis, methodologies of art, and artists' biographies. She is also a psychoanalyst in private practice. With Allison Coudert she coauthored five children's books about girls at a private school in New York. With Maria Grazia Pernis, she coauthored a book on Lucrezia Tornabuoni, the mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and the Medici family as well as a study of the lives and of Federico da Montefeltro of Urbino and Sigismondo Malatesta of Rimini. With Jacques Szaluta she co-edited Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, a collection of essays on art, literature, history, and psychoanalysis.
Adams has published widely in the field of art history, including introductory text books and books on methods of artistic analysis, art and psychoanalysis, and the Italian Renaissance.
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