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by: Stokstad, Marilyn; Cothren, Michael

ISBN: 9780205790937 | 0205790933

ART HISTORYprovides the reader with the most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey on the market. These hallmarks makeART HISTORYthe choice for reader who seeks to actively engage in the study of art. This new edition of ART HISTORY is the result of a happy and productive collaboration between two scholar-teachers (Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren) who share a common vision that survey courses on the history of art should be filled with as much enjoyment as erudition, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as ... MOREwell as an educated, public for the visual arts. Like its predecessors, this new edition seeks to balance formal and iconographic analysis with contextual art history in order to craft interpretations that will engage a diverse student population. Throughout the text, the visual arts are treated as part of a larger world, in which geography, politics, religion, economics, philosophy, social life, and the other fine arts are related components of a vibrant and cultural landscape. Art History Portable Editionoffers exactly the same content asArt History, Fourth Editionbut in smaller individual booklets for maximum portability. The combined six segment set consists of four booklets that correspond to major periods in Western art and two that cover global art. Each book is available individually, making them ideal for courses focused on individual periods.

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ART HISTORY provides students with the most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey text on the market. These hallmarks make ART HISTORY the choice for instructors who seek to actively engage their students in the study of art. This new edition of ART HISTORY is the result of a happy and productive collaboration between two scholar-teachers (Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren) who share a common vision that survey courses on the history of art should be filled with as much enjoyment as erudition, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts. Like its predecessors, this new edition seeks to balance formal and iconographic analysis with contextual art history in order to craft interpretations that will engage a diverse student population. Throughout the text, the visual arts are treated as part of a larger world, in which geography, politics, religion, economics, philosophy, social life, and the other fine arts are related components of a vibrant and cultural landscape. Art History Portable Edition offers exactly the same content as Art History, Fourth Edition but in smaller individual booklets for maximum student portability. The combined six segment set consists of four booklets that correspond to major periods in Western art and two that cover global art. Each book is available individually, making them ideal for courses focused on individual periods.

BRIEF CONTENTS

 

CONTENTS vii

 

Chapter 8 ISLAMIC ART 261

Chapter 9 ART OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA BEFORE 1200 291

Chapter 10 CHINESE AND KOREAN ART BEFORE 1279 325

Chapter 11 JAPANESE ART BEFORE 1333 355 ... MORE

Chapter 12 ART OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE 1300 377

Chapter 13 EARLY AFRICAN ART 403

 

CONTEMPORARY WORLD MAP

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CREDITS

INDEX

 

DETAILED CONTENTS

 

CONTENTS vii

 

CHAPTER 8 ISLAMIC ART 261

ISLAM AND EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY 262

ART AND ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 265

Early Architecture 265

THE LATER PERIOD 270

Architecture of the Mediterranean 271

Architecture of the East 275

Portable Arts 276

The Arts of the Book 279

Manuscript Painting 280

ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE THREE EMPIRES 282

The Ottoman Empire 282

The Safavid Dynasty 285

Mughal Dynasty 288

THE MODERN ERA 289

BOXES

ART AND ITS CONTEXTS

The Five Pillars of Islam 267

THE OBJECT SPEAKS

The Great Mosque of Cordoba 268

A CLOSER LOOK

A Mamluk Glass Oil Lamp 273

ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE

Arches 271

TECHNIQUE

Ornament 264

Carpet Making 286

 

CHAPTER 9 ART OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA BEFORE 1200     291

THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT 292

INDUS CIVILIZATION 292

THE VEDIC PERIOD 295

THE MAURYA PERIOD 295

THE PERIOD OF THE SHUNGAS AND EARLY ANDHRAS 298

Stupas 298

Buddhist Rock-Cut Halls 302

THE KUSHAN AND LATER ANDHRA PERIODS 302

The Gandhara Style 303

The Mathura Style 303

The Southeast Indian Style 305

THE FOURTH THROUGH SEVENTH CENTURIES 306

Buddhist Sculpture 306

Painting 306

The Early Northern Temple 308

Monumental Narrative Reliefs 309

The Early Southern Temple 312

THE EIGHTH THROUGH THE FOURTEENTH CENTURIES 312

The Monumental Northern Temple 313

The Monumental Southern Temple 317

The Bhakti Movement in Art 318

ART OF SOUTHEAST ASIA 319

BOXES

ART AND ITS CONTEXTS

Buddhism 297

Hinduism 298

Mudras 304

Meaning and Ritual in Hindu Temples and Images 310

THE OBJECT SPEAKS

Shiva Nataraja of the Chola Dynasty 314

A CLOSER LOOK

Descent of the Ganges Relief, Mamallapuram 313

ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE

Stupas and Temples 301

 

CHAPTER 10 CHINESE AND KOREAN ART BEFORE 1279 325

THE MIDDLE KINGDOM 326

NEOLITHIC CULTURES 326

Painted Pottery Cultures 326

Liangzhu Culture 326

BRONZE AGE CHINA 328

Shang Dynasty 328

Zhou Dynasty 329

THE CHINESE EMPIRE: QIN DYNASTY 332

HAN DYNASTY 332

Philosophy and Art 333

Architecture 335

SIX DYNASTIES 335

Painting 336

Calligraphy 337

Buddhist Art and Architecture 338

SUI AND TANG DYNASTIES 338

Buddhist Art and Architecture 339

Figure Painting 343

SONG DYNASTY 344

Philosophy: Neo-Confucianism 345

Northern Song Painting 345

Southern Song Painting and Ceramics 348

THE ARTS OF KOREA 350

The Three Kingdoms Period 350

The Unified Silla Period 352

Goryeo Dynasty 352

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ART AND ITS CONTEXTS

Chinese Characters 331

Daoism 334

Confucius and Confucianism 337

THE OBJECT SPEAKS

The Silk Road during the Tang Period 342

A CLOSER LOOK

Rubbing of a stone relief 335

ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE

Pagodas 345

TECHNIQUE

Piece-Mold Casting 329

 

CHAPTER 11 JAPANESE ART BEFORE 1333  355

PREHISTORIC JAPAN 356

Jomon Period 356

Yayoi Period 356

Kofun Period 356

ASUKA PERIOD 359

Horyuji 360

NARA PERIOD 361

HEIAN PERIOD 363

Esoteric Buddhist Art 363

Pure Land Buddhist Art 365

Secular Painting and Calligraphy 367

KAMAKURA PERIOD 370

Pure Land Buddhist Art 371

Zen Buddhist Art 375

BOXES

ART AND ITS CONTEXTS

Writing, Language, and Culture 357

Buddhist Symbols 362

Arms and Armor 371

THE OBJECT SPEAKS

Daruma, Founder of Zen 374

A CLOSER LOOK

The Tale of Genji 368

TECHNIQUE

Joined-Block Wood Sculpture 366

RECOVERING THE PAST

The Great Buddha Hall 364

 

CHAPTER 12 ART OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE 1300 377

THE NEW WORLD 378

MESOAMERICA 378

The Olmec 378

Teotihuacan 381

The Maya 384

CENTRAL AMERICA 390

SOUTH AMERICA: THE CENTRAL ANDES 391

Chavin de Huantar 391

The Paracas and Nazca Cultures 392

The Moche Culture 393

NORTH AMERICA 395

The East 395

The North American Southwest 397

BOXES

ART AND ITS CONTEXTS

Maya Writing 385

The Cosmic Ballgame 389

THE OBJECT SPEAKS

Rock Art 400

A CLOSER LOOK

Maya Stela 387

TECHNIQUE

Andean Textiles 394

 

CHAPTER 13 EARLY AFRICAN ART 403

THE LURE OF ANCIENT AFRICA 404

AFRICA–THE CRADLE OF ART AND CIVILIZATION 404

AFRICAN ROCK ART 404

Saharan Rock Art 405

SUB-SAHARAN CIVILIZATIONS 406

Nok 407

Igbo-Ukwu 408

Ife 409

Benin 410

OTHER URBAN CENTERS 416

Jenné 416

Great Zimbabwe 417

Aksum and Lalibela 419

Kongo Kingdom 419

EXPORTING TO THE WEST 421

BOXES

ART AND ITS CONTEXTS

The Myth of “Primitive” Art 406

Southern African Rock Art 408

THE OBJECT SPEAKS

A Warrior Chief Pledging Loyalty 414

A CLOSER LOOK

Igbo-Ukwu 413

TECHNIQUE

Lost-Wax Casting 415

 

CONTEMPORARY WORLD MAP

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CREDITS

INDEX

Marilyn Stokstad, teacher, art historian, and museum curator, has been a leader in her field for decades and has served as president of the College Art Association and the International Center of Medieval Art.  In 2002, she was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the National Women’s Caucus for Art.  In 1997, she was awarded the Governor’s Arts Award as Kansas Art Educator of the Year and an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters by Carleton College.  She is Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.  She has also served in various leadership capacities at the University’s Spencer Museum of Art and is Consultative Curator of Medieval Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri

 

Michael W. Cothren is Scheuer Family Professor of Humanities at Swarthmore College, where he has also served as Art Department Chair, Coordinator of Medieval Studies, and Divisional Chair of the Humanities.  Since arriving at Swarthmore in 1978, he has taught specialized courses on Medieval, Roman, and Islamic art and architecture, as well as seminars on visual narrative and on theory and method, but he particularly enjoys teaching the survey to Swarthmore beginners.  His research and publications focus on French Gothic art and architecture, most recently in a book on the stained glass of Beauvais Cathedral entitled Picturing the Celestial City.  Michael is a consultative curator at the Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. He has served on the board of the International Center of Medieval Art and as President both of the American Committee of the International Corpus Vitrearum and of his local school board. When not teaching, writing, or pursuing art historical research, you can finding him hiking in the red rocks around Sedona, Arizona.