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Gardner's Art Through the Ages Vol. 1 : The Western Perspective

ISBN: 9780495004790 | 0495004790
Edition: 12th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomson-Wadsworth
Pub. Date: 3/7/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
As the market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. The story of art unfolds in its full historical, social, religious, economic, and cultural context, deepening students' understanding of art, architecture, painting, and sculpture. This version explores the history of art in the Western world in a concise 23-chapter format (also available in a two-volume split). GARDNER'S ART THROUGH TH... MORE
Introduction: the Subjects and Vocabulary of Art History
The Birth of Art: Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age
The Rise of Civilization: the Art of the Ancient Near East
Pharaohs and the Afterlife: the Art of Ancient Egypt
Minos and the Heroes of Homer: the Art of the Prehistoric Aegean
Gods, Heroes, and Athletes: the Art of Ancient Greece
Italy before the Roman... MORE
From Seven Hills to Three Continents: the Art of Ancient Rome
Pagans, Christians, and Jews: the Art of Late Antiquity
Rome in the East: the Art of Byzantium
Muhammad and the Muslims: Islamic Art
Europe after the Fall of Rome: Early Medieval Art in the West
The Age of Pilgrims and Crusaders: Romanesque Art
The Age of the Great Cathedrals: Gothic Art
From Gothic to Renaissance: the Fourteenth Century in Italy
Of Piety, Passion, and Politics: Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain
Humanism and the Allure of Antiquity: Fifteenth-Century Italian Art
Beauty, Science, and Spirit in Italian Art: the High Renaissance and Mannerism
The Age of Reformation: Sixteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain
Of Popes, Peasants, Monarchs, and Merchants: Baroque and Rococo Art
The Enlightenment and Its Legacy: Neoclassicism through the Mid-Nineteenth Century
The Rise of Modernism: the Later Nineteenth Century
The Triumph of Modernist Art: the Early Twentieth Century
The Emergence of Postmodernism: the Later Twentieth Century
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