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This book, an introduction to the history of art that features excellent scholarship, takes a global approach with an emphasis on the Western tradition in art. It reflects new interests and issues, expanding the topic to include women and minorities, and showing media and techniques other than painting, sculpture, and architecture. Written in clear, standard English without art historical or aesthetic jargon,Art: A Brief Historyis visually appealing as well as intellectually stimulating.This comprehensive survey of world art is based on the most recent scholarship, and includes coverage of arts inspired by all the major religions, the contribution of women and minorities, and contains discussions of all the arts, including ceramics, glass, metal, enamel, and the fiber arts.This book serves as an introduction to the history of art and a ready reference for people working in the arts, including museum docents, and art gallery employees, owners, and managers.

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 Professor of Art History 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 theory and method, but he most 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 consultative curator of medieval stained glass 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 or engaged in art historical research, you can finding him hiking in the red rocks around Sedona, Arizona.

Preface
Resources
Acknowledgments
Use Notes
Starter Kit
Introduction
Chapter 1 Prehistoric Art in Europe
Chapter 2 Art of of the Ancient Near East
Chapter 3 Art of Ancient Egypt
Chapter 4 Early Asian Art
Chapter 5 Art of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World
Chapter 6 Etruscan and Roman Art
Chapter 7 Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
Chapter 8 Islamic Art
Chapter 9 Later Asian Art
Chapter 10 Early Medieval and Romanesque Art
Chapter 11 Gothic Art
Chapter 12 Early Renaissance Art
Chapter 13 Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation
Chapter 14 Baroque and Rococo Art
Chapter 15 Art of the Americas
Chapter 16 African Art
Chapter 17 Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism
Chapter 18 Later Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States
Chapter 19 Modern Art: Europe and North America in the Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 20 Art Since 1945
World Map
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Credits

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Art A Brief History

Art A Brief History

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