From the Back CoverIn a very short time, Marilyn Stokstad's Art History has become the gold standard of introductions to the history of art. It has transformed the way the field of art history is perceived and experienced. Engaging, accessible, and, just as important, fun, Art History gives today's readers cultural and social context for art along with eloquent visual explanations of art's special qualities and particular vocabularies. Its animated and clear narrative tells the many-sided story of art, starting with the earliest prehistoric paintings and sculpture through today's wildly varying works in new mediums. In addition to offering an outstanding collection of color illustrations, Art History features glorious maps, chronologies, and scores of labeled line drawings and architectural plans. Special essays called "The Object Speaks" offer tantalizing insights on topics such as authenticity, patronage, and artistic intention. Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest in scholarship, this Revised Second Edition features even more works in color and more newly cleaned or restored works. Many works of art are completely new to the book, including a wall painting from Chauvet cave, a page from the Morgan Library Picture Bible, Bronzino's Allegory with Venus and Cupid, Claude Lorrain's Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, and Courbet's The Stone Breakers, among many others. The addition of cutting edge contemporary artists Jeff Wall and Jennifer Steinkampt, and architect Daniel Libeskind bring present-day currency to the book's scope. More attention has been paid to the art and culture of the Islamic world and specifically the Ottoman Empire.

Art History, Volume One: Revised Version- Text Only

Stokstad, Marilyn

Pearson\Prentice Hall

This survey of over a thousand years of Western art and architecture, from ancient Rome to the age of exploration, introduces the reader to a period of extraordinary historical and geographical extent. The monumental arts of architecture and sculpture and the diverse minor arts of the Middle Ages are presented here within social, religious, political, and intellectual framework of lands as varied as France and Denmark, Spain and Germany. Medieval Art covers all the major monuments, describing each important work clearly and in detail. Marilyn Stokstad's descriptions are sensitive and articulate, giving the reader a sense of the beauty of the work. They also teach the reader how to look at medieval art—which aspects of architecture, sculpture, or painting are important and for what reasons. Stylistic and iconographic issues and themes are dealt with clearly, and the author presents medieval art in an aesthetic and social context so that it can be fully understood and appreciated. The book consists of twelve chapters and covers the period from the second to the fifteenth centuries.

Medieval Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Westview Press

Art History, Vol. 1

COLLINS

Bradford R. Addiss, Stephen

Prentice Hall PTR

Hard cover book, revised edition 1,617 illustrations. Large fully illustrated comprehensive art history book. Great coffee table book or gift.

Art History

Harry N. Abrams

Offers a global overview of art from prehistoric times to the present while explaining the historical, social, and political context of each artistic period

PRENTICE/HALL

The most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey text on the market. 6th edition,A brief history continues to balance formal analysis with contextual art history in order to engage a diverse student audience. The authors Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren, both scholars as well as teachers, share a common vision that survey courses should be filled with as much enjoyment as learning, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts.

Art: A Brief History

Pearson College Div

Offers a global overview of art from prehistoric times to the present while explaining the historical, social, and political context of each artistic period

Art History, Volume Two

Addiss, Stephen

Li, Chu-Tsing

Rhie, Marylin M.

Roy, Christopher D.

Cateforis, David

It shows only very slight signs of cover wear and no markings inside. Textbooks may not include supplements like CDs, access codes Our shipping department handles orders in a timely manner.

Art History (Volume 1)

Architecture

Prentice Hall College Div.

For two-semester courses in Art History Survey, Global Art History, and for Introductory Art courses taught from a historical perspective. Exceptional in scholarship and pedagogically in tune with the needs of today's students-rich but never effete-Marilyn Stokstad's Art History is the art history text of choice for a new generation of teachers and students. Presenting a broad view of art through the centuries, it introduces beginning students in a positive and sympathetic manner to the works of all artists. This includes women and artists of color, and the arts of other continents and regions in addition to those of Western Europe and the United States. Balancing both the traditions of art history and new trends of the present, Art History is the most comprehensive, accessible, and magnificently illustrated work of its kind.

Art History, Vol. 1 (Study Guide)

Digital Image CD-ROM with 500 images taken directly from the text.

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Art History, Volume One: Revised Version- Text Only

Medieval Art

Art History, Vol. 1

Art History

Art History

Art: A Brief History

Art History, Volume Two

Art History (Volume 1)

Art History, Vol. 1 (Study Guide)

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