Fleming's Arts and Ideas (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) [Paperback]

Mary Warner Marien (Author), William Fleming (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 9, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0534613713 | ISBN-13: 978-0534613716 | Edition: 10

A top-seller since it first published in 1955, FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present. New author Mary Warner Marien continues the text's tradition of combining outstanding scholarship with high quality art reproductions, while at the same time bringing a new contemporary voice to this classic text. FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS challenges students to see the links between common purposes, themes, and ideas in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy.

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"Fleming is the godfather of survey texts and is the standard by which all others are compared."

"Every page is a treasure of knowledge, filled with connections between the various fields of learning. My students are always inspired by the way Fleming can take complex subjects and make them seem real and accessible."

"Dozens of students have told me that they sold all of their books back to the bookstore at the end of the semester--except this one. They are extremely pleased that they can now understand the things that at once seemed so foreign to them."

"The illustrations for this text are sumptuous. There's no other word for Fleming's book: beautiful. And the selections of images are the ones I would want, and more."

About the Author

Mary Warner Marien teaches at Syracuse University where she worked closely with William Fleming on the previous edition of ARTS and IDEAS. She is the author of numerous articles, book reviews, and essays on these and other subjects. Her book, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ITS CRITICS: A CULTURAL HISTORY was named one of the two best books in photographic history for 1997. She recently completed PHOTOGRAPHY: A CULTURAL HISTORY (2002), a new survey of the history of photography, with special emphasis on contemporary global practice. Her current research project is an investigation of the women's movement in the late twentieth-century and its relationship to feminist art and art theory.

Product Details

• Paperback: 654 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 10 edition (July 9, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534613713
• ISBN-13: 978-0534613716
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #99,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mary Warner Marien is the author of several books and hundreds of articles on photographic history, art history, and art criticism. She has taught courses on photography and art, photography and literature, as well as photographic history.

She is delighted to live in an era when photography and its history are being discovered by new photographers using camera phones and digital cameras.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Tool for Reference, April 15, 2008

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This review is from: Fleming's Arts and Ideas (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) (Paperback)

I used this textbook for a class two years ago and I have found myself referencing it often since taking the class, I even used it to study for a humanities CLEP exam. It has good photographs of the artwork and it is well written and interesting. The CD also had interesting material, especially the portions about architecture.

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1.0 out of 5 stars i haven't got it yet, October 7, 2011

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it has been over a month now and i still have not gotten my book. its amazing how you can buy a book and not get it for no real reason at all.