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Gardner's Art Through the Ages by
The 14TH Edition of Gardner's Art Through the Ages provides a comprehensive, beautifully-illustrated tour of the world's great artistic traditions.
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Art History Essentials by
The Essentials: Art History highlights the history of art, from the Ancient World to the Twentieth Century. It includes illustrations and photos of Egyptian architecture, Greek sculpture, and Renaissance paintings and sculpture.
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Writing about Art by
The book explains the different approaches college students encounter in undergraduate art history classes. Each chapter outlines the characteristics of one type of visual or historical analysis and briefly explains its history and development.
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Writing about Art by
Sayre's text remains one of the most useful resources for a new student to art history.
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A Short Guide to Writing about Art by
This text guides art students through the writing process. Students are shown how to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and are prepared with the tools they need to present their ideas through effective writing.
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30,000 Years of Art by
30,000 Years of Art offers an original and accessible introduction to art for a general readership. This book organizes the work in chronological order, it covers all cultures (not only western) and, as the title suggests, it covers 30,000 years of art. The book contains over 1000 works of art from all periods and regions in the world.
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Call Number: N5300 .A14 2007
The Annotated Mona Lisa by
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art, from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media.
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Call Number: N5302 .S76 2007
Art of the Western World by
This volume integrates the works of each period with the history, values, and ideals that gave birth to Western art and offers fresh insights into what the great works meant at the time they were created.
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Call Number: N5300.C715 1989
History of Modern Art by
Long considered an important survey of modern art, this engrossing and liberally illustrated text traces the development of trends and influences in painting, sculpture, photography and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
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Call Number: N6490 .A713 2010
Janson's History of Art by
This is a key book for the study and enjoyment of Western art.
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Call Number: N5300 .J3 2007
The Oxford History of Western Art by
The Oxford History of Western Art is the new authority on the development of visual culture in the West over the last 2700 years, from the classical period to the end of the twentieth century.
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Call Number: N5300 .O96 2000
Principles of Art History by
Originally published in Germany during the 1920s, this now-classic study surveys the works of 64 major artists in terms of style, quality, and mode of representation.
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Call Number: N5300.W82
The Visual Arts by
This new edition is an authoritative and provides a balanced account of the history of art. It presents art history as an essential part of the development of humankind, encompassing the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas-spanning from the primitive art of hunters 30,000 years ago to the most controversial art forms of today.
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Call Number: N5300 .H68 2005
Stepping-Stones by
The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones in the development of human culture, demonstrating how far humankind has come and reminding us of the ties that bind us across the ages.
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A Companion to Ancient near Eastern Art by
This book covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid Persian Empire around 330 BCE.
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A Companion to Greek Art by
A comprehensive, authoritative account of the development Greek Art through the 1st millennium BC.
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Women in the Classical World by
The lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched Women in the Classical World lifts the curtain on the women of ancient Greece and Rome, from slaves and prostitutes, to Athenian housewives, to Rome's imperial family. The first book on classical women to give equal weight to written texts and artistic representations, it brings together a great wealth of materials--poetry, vase painting, legislation, medical treatises, architecture, religious and funerary art, women's ornaments, historical epics, political speeches, even ancient coins--to present women in the historical and cultural context of their time.
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The ABC of Style by
The ABC of Style invites you to explore the many different architectural and decorative interior styles from their ancient origins to the 1940s.
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Gothic Art by
Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that evolved throughout Europe over more than 200 years.
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Architecture of Italy by
Covering all regions of Italy--from Turin's Palace of Labor in northern Italy to the Monreale Cathedral and Cloister in Sicily--and all periods of Italian architecture--from the first-century Colosseum in Rome to the Casa Rustica apartments built in Milan in the 1930s--this volume examines over 70 of Italy's most important architectural landmarks.
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Early Italian Painting by
Oscillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine tradition and the modernity predicted by Giotto, Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the Renaissance, the Italian Primitives.
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Renaissance Art by
The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages.
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Impressionism and Post-Impressionism by
Impressionism is one of the most famous artistic movements. But what appears today as a charming and exquisite landscape painting, was actually one of the first avant-garde movements whose members had decided to fight the values of traditional art. In doing so, they laid the formal foundations of 20th-century modern art. This book is a visual guide through the crucial moments in the history of art and the progression of the 19th-century to modernity.
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Modern Art: a Very Short Introduction by
Through an investigation of the history of modern art, the contemporary relevance of this pivotal artistic movement is explained. Concise and accessible, Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction interrogates the ideas of modern art. It questions the notions of what qualifies as 'modern', and explores the ways in which modern art relates to contemporary and postmodern movements. Provocative and engaging, Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction is an ideal guide for gallery goers, students, and all those either interested in, or confused by, the idea of modern art.
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ArtQuake by
Art Quake: The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.
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