As fascinating as a real visit to the world's famous museums and architectural sites, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE gives you a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated tour of the world's great artistic traditions--plus all the study tools you need to excel in your art history course! Easy to read and understand, this 13th Edition of the most widely read history of art book in the English language is the only textbook that includes a unique "scale" feature (accompanying the book's photographs of paintings and other artworks) that will help you better visualize the actual size of the artworks shown in the book. Three levels of review including extended image captions, "The Big Picture" overviews at the end of every chapter, and a special global timeline will help you study for your exams. You'll also find materials that will help you master the key topics quickly in the ArtStudy Online (a free interactive study guide that includes flash cards of images and quizzes).
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"Gardner's presents a narrative that runs like a thread of unity through the text."
"I examined the options, and found Gardner's to be the best in giving the students the best images and the clearest discussion of both style and historical context."
"What I particularly like about the Gardner is its flexibility for a variety of pedagogical/methodological/thematic approaches, which is due to the depth of its coverage of certain very pivotal figures/moments/issues in western art history."
"I examined the options, and found Gardner's to be the best in giving the students the best images and the clearest discussion of both style and historical context."
"What I particularly like about the Gardner is its flexibility for a variety of pedagogical/methodological/thematic approaches, which is due to the depth of its coverage of certain very pivotal figures/moments/issues in western art history."
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Helen Gardner (1878-1946) was an American art historian and educator. Her Art Through the Ages remains a standard text for American art history classes.
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Great information.,
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This review is from: Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume I (with Art Study & Timeline Printed Access Card) (Paperback)
A well written textbook that keeps my interest. The information is not dumbed down only explained better. The images and time lines are very helpful and really make the text come alive. Would recommend this to anyone with an interest in history as well as art.
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disappointed by missing pages,
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This review is from: Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume I (with Art Study & Timeline Printed Access Card) (Paperback)
I just bought the hardback edition also, and it, too, has pages omitted in the introduction, although the page numbering is in sequence. Figures I-2, 3, & 4 are missing along with the text that goes with them, which is the beginning of the Introduction essay Art History in the 21st Century. Bad show for an expensive hardbound reference book. Amazon customer service was terrific about it, happily, so I am hoping to eventually end up with a correctly printed and bound copy, if the publisher actually has such a thing. I now doubt that this is the case since the second copy of the book, which Amazon shipped to me, has exactly the same defect. While in Portland, OR over the weekend I looked at a copy in Powells Books, and it also is defective. I think the publisher is ignoring the fact that they are marketing shoddy goods. I'm rather disappointed in them.
In addition, it is not helpful that when one tries to examine the paperback volume I on the Amazon site, they always substitute volume 2.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Just what I needed for my class,
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Thanks! Arrived in good shape and in time for my Art History class. Awesome!
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