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Art Past, Art Present (Trade Version) (3rd Edition) [Hardcover]

David G. Wilkins (Author), Bernard Schultz (Author), Katheryn M. Linduff (Author)
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September 1, 1997
A global, chronological approach to art history, which presents each world culture in its order of appearance, reintroducing it when it enters a new phase or merges with other traditions.


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An odd amalgam, this album is intended as an introductory text in art history or art appreciation. Although not especially successful in its stated aim of achieving a global, comparative, chronological overview of world art, it makes provocative juxtapositions. Thus, a Hopi pueblo is set alongside a Frank Lloyd Wright house; an American romantic landscape painting faces an example of Gustave Courbet's realism; a Christian cemetery fresco is counterpoised by paintings from a third-century Jewish synagogue in Mesopotamia. But it is left largely to the reader to supply the connections. Commentaries are sometimes blandly didactic, at other times aptly insightful. In Velazquez's The Water Carrier , we are told, "the simple act of offering, accepting and consuming a glass of water gains dignity and import." Moments like this make the volume worthwhile. Wilkins is director of the University Art Gallery at the University of Pittsburgh; Schultz, an associate arts professor at West Virginia University.
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Featuring an easy-to-use format -- with general period/style introductions followed by self-contained sections on a limited number of specific representative artistic works -- this introduction to art history emphasizes the historical and cultural contexts which help explain the works. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 628 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (September 1, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0810919818
  • ISBN-13: 978-0810919815
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,034,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly good read!, August 24, 2011
I bought this book for my Art History Survey I & II courses, and was surprised at how well I read it. Usually I say, "I'm gonna do my readings and do great in class!" but in all actuality I attempt to read and get bored then start to do something else. This book reads almost like Spark Notes to other Art History books, leaving you with a lot of important information about the subject and little tedious details that you won't need in class. I even substituted this book for the one required for my contemporary art history course and did very well in it, I would recommend this book to any Art/Art History major. It's really well written, laid out, and interesting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Text, February 3, 2011
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I bought this book for school, but continued reading it even after the course was over - great art history book!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Whole New Dimension, October 2, 2009
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I bought this book for my art history class and I absolutely love it! The book taught me many great things about the art pieces all around the world. It is like a whole new dimension of life that I have never experienced before! I wish one day I can see some art pieces in person to actually get a better sense of the art itself. I recommend this book to those who love art and who wants a better understanding from art of the past!
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blue oil glaze, diagonal recession, analyzing art, loose brushstrokes, printmaking process, calyx krater, tunnel vaults, imperial forums, nave arcade, architectural diagram, hand scroll
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New York, United States, Italian Renaissance, Nineteenth-Century Art, Middle Ages, Sixteenth-Century Art, Roman Empire, Early Christian, High Renaissance, Jan van Eyck, Last Supper, Saint Peter, Old Kingdom, New Kingdom, People's Republic of China, Eighteenth-Century Art, Virgin Mary, Last Judgment, Leonardo da Vinci, Hagia Sophia, Middle East, Royal Academy, Sistine Chapel, Indus Valley, The Tale of Genji
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