Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume I / Edition 15

by Fred S. Kleiner

Overview

GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, VOLUME I, gives you the tools to master your course material. A unique scale feature will help you better visualize the actual size of the artworks shown in the book. Within each chapter, the "Framing the Era" overviews, timeline, extended captions, and the chapter summary section titled "The Big Picture" will help you review for exams. In addition, MindTap for this 15th edition of GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES provides an interactive digital experience for exploration, study, and development of critical-thinking skills. It includes an interactive eBook with note taking capability, zoomable versions of images included within the text, over 100 videos, audio resources, image flashcards, a Guide to Studying, quizzes and critical-thinking questions, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781305633940
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	01/01/2016
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 11.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Fred S. Kleiner, Ph.D. has been professor of art history and archeology at Boston University for four decades. He taught previously at University of Virginia and served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology. Acclaimed for inspiring lectures, Dr. Kleiner won Boston University's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the College Prize for Undergraduate Advising in the Humanities and the Distinguished Teaching Prize in the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London as well as a member of the Text and Academic Authors Association. In addition to this title, Dr. Kleiner has authored several editions of ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY (Cengage), A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART (Cengage) and more than 100 publications on Greek and Roman art and architecture. Dr. Kleiner earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Preface xi INTRODUCTION What Is Art History? 1 CHAPTER 1 Art in the Stone Age 15 CHAPTER 2 Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia 31 CHAPTER 3 Egypt from Narmer to Cleopatra 57 CHAPTER 4 The Prehistoric Aegean 85 CHAPTER 5 Ancient Greece 105 CHAPTER 6 The Etruscans 165 CHAPTER 7 The Roman Empire 181 CHAPTER 8 Late Antiquity 237 CHAPTER 9 Byzantium 263 CHAPTER 10 The Islamic World 293 CHAPTER 11 Early Medieval Europe 319 CHAPTER 12 Romanesque Europe 347 CHAPTER 13 Gothic Europe North of the Alps 381 CHAPTER 14 Late Medieval Italy 419 Notes 442 Glossary 443 Bibliography 456 Credits 466 Index 469

Editorial Reviews

"I have taught Survey of Art using Gardner since 1974. The Kleiner versions are masterpieces."

"I find Art through the Ages to be head and shoulders above other survey texts in terms of its contextual treatment of the objects. Fred Kleiner's interest in explaining how and why objects functioned within their social, religious, political and funerary contexts effectively opens the door for further learning in the classroom."

From the Publisher

Tansey and Kleiner have collaborated on the most thorough revision since 1970 of one of the central monuments of art-historical study. Extensively reorganized and rewritten, this massive book now contains five more chapters than the 9th edition. Among the beneficiaries are both African and Etruscan art, which each have their own chapter for the first time. Somewhat larger, more colorful illustrations, maps, and chronologies add to the overall improved look of this new version. As before, the prose is dense but readable, focusing primarily on appreciative descriptions of exemplary works and emphasizing the periodicity of artistic style. In a new concluding chapter, the authors acknowledge recent revisionist challenges to this more traditional approach. It's a cursory tip of the hat to postmodernism, followed by unconvincing attempts to legislate categories within the art of the 1980s and 1990s. Far better is the way most of the book deals with earlier eras, so that this remains the benchmark text against which all other general surveys can be measured. An improvement upon an already first-rate work; highly recommended.Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., Cal.

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