This beautifully presented book puts the story of Western art within its historical and cultural context. By focusing in depth on a selection of works, this book provides readers with a richer understanding of important historical developments in art. This new edition offers even more color plates than before plus new sections on Renaissance painting in Venice, women as artists and patrons, the Harlem Renaissance, and the work of Frida Kahlo.
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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