Appropriate for one-semester art history surveys or historically-focused art appreciation classes, A History of Western Art, Fifth Edition, combines sound scholarship, lavish visuals, and a lively narrative to provide students with an accessible and engaging introduction to art history. Focusing on the Western canon, the text presents a compelling chronological narrative from prehistory to the present. A non-Western supplement, World Views: Topics in Non-Western Art, addresses specific areas of non-Western art and augments the Western chronology by illustrating moments of thematic relationships and cross-cultural contact.
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It's difficult for any author trying to produce a beginning-level art history textbook to come up with something that is truly exemplary because the very nature of the task requires skimming or excluding so much of what is vital to understanding the subject. Adams ( Art and Psychoanalysis , LJ 9/15/93) has produced a work like many others in that it provides an enticing but fuzzy snapshot of each artistic period as it races from the Venus of Willendorf to Jean-Michel Basquiat in 500 pages. One of Adams's most valuable innovations over such standard texts as H.W. Janson's History of Art or Helen Gardner's Art Through the Ages is the beginning chapter, which covers the language of the visual artist--a brief but straightforward discussion of form, line, and value relating directly to later chapters. She has also included a much higher proportion of color images than do other titles in this price range and has added sidebars to enhance her main text. Ultimately, this book will be useful to students in first-year Western art history classes, but it need only be purchased by college libraries where such courses are common.
- Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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An introductory chapter "Why Do We Study Art?" explains many of the interpretive methodologies used to describe and understand works of art.
Drawing studies for major works of art provide a glimpse of the artistic process.
Large-format illustrations, often with multiple views (for sculpture) and details (for painting), enhance appreciation and understanding of art.
Context essays and technique commentaries help students interpret artworks by offering cultural and historical background, and by explaining media and techniques.
"Connections" features show how a particular work of art was influenced by or otherwise relates to an earlier work of art.
Beyond the West essays introduce world art out side the Western canon. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Drawing studies for major works of art provide a glimpse of the artistic process.
Large-format illustrations, often with multiple views (for sculpture) and details (for painting), enhance appreciation and understanding of art.
Context essays and technique commentaries help students interpret artworks by offering cultural and historical background, and by explaining media and techniques.
"Connections" features show how a particular work of art was influenced by or otherwise relates to an earlier work of art.
Beyond the West essays introduce world art out side the Western canon. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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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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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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