Art across Time Combined / Edition 4

by Laurie Schneider Adams

Overview

Art across Time combines sound scholarship, lavish visuals, and a lively narrative to provide students with a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging introduction to Art History. Popular with majors and non-majors alike, the text offers readers more than a chronology of art by placing each work within the time-and-place context within which it was created. Encountering and interpreting a work of art in context offers the reader the richest possible experience of it. Large scale and high quality visual reproductions of artworks are often presented from multiple perspectives to enhance visual appeal and allow students to view details and elements of composition with greater ease. A thoughtful pedagogical approach helps students consider what they are viewing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780073379234
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	02/12/2010
Edition description:	List
Pages:	1072
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Laurie Schneider Adams received a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University. She is Professor of Art History at John Jay College, City University of New York, where she teaches art survey, and at the Graduate Center, where she teaches courses on the Italian Renaissance and on Art and Psychoanalysis. She has published articles on iconography and on art and psychology. She is the editor of Giotto in Perspectiveand of the journal Source: Notes in the History of Art; the author of A History of Western Art, The Methodologies of Art, Art and Psychoanalysis, and Art on Trial; and co-author (with Maria Grazia Pernis) of Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Malatesta: The Eagle and the Elephant and of 5 children's books (with Allison Coudert).

Table of Contents

Brief Contents
Preface

Introduction: Why Do We Study the History of Art?

PART I
Chapter 1: The Art of Prehistory

Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East

Chapter 3: Ancient Egypt

Chapter 4: The Aegean

PART II

Chapter 5: The Art of Ancient Greece

Chapter 6: The Art of the Etruscans

Chapter 7: Ancient Rome

Chapter 8: Early Christian and Byzantine Art


PART III

Chapter 9: The Early Middle Ages

Chapter 10: Romanesque Art

Chapter 11: Gothic Art

Chapter 12: Precursors of the Renaissance

PART IV

Chapter 13: The Early Renaissance


Chapter 14: The High Renaissance in Italy

Chapter 15: Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy

Chapter 16: Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe

PART V

Chapter 17: The Baroque Style in Western Europe

Chapter 18: Rococo and the Eighteenth Century

PART VI

Chapter 19: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 20: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 21: Nineteenth-Century Realism

Chapter 22: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism

Chapter 23: Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century


PART VII

Chapter 24: Turn of the Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse

Chapter 25: Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles

Chapter 26: Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, and theUnited States between the Wars

Chapter 27: Abstract Expressionism

Chapter 28: Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism

Chapter 29: Innovation, Continuity, and Globalization


Notes
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Literary Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Index