Art History

Discovering Art History

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LEVEL: Key Stage 4 onwards. In-depth coverage has made Discovering Art History the textbook of choice in many high schools. A dynamic format, flexible structure and a host of special features break new ground in presenting art through the ages. Every page is a journey through time and a journey into the creative process. Vibrant maps, timelines, and quotes add historical perspective to art periods. Key notes, vocabulary, and built-in reviews help to keep students on track, while features such as World Cultural Timelines, Window in Time segments and Sidelights offer avenues for extended learning. There are even Student Profiles, which let your students see how their peers from around the country interpreted the studio exercises. Best of all, the new interactive structure enables you to move in, out and through chapters effortlessly to suit your individual teaching style and curriculum needs…. More >>

Discovering Art History

Art History’s History

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Written in jargon-free, reader-friendly language, this is one of the first volumes to make art historical theory accessible to those at the introductory level. A review of contemporary theory of art history provides readers with lucid prose and concrete examples. Discussion of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century theories that are important to art history offers readers a review of historically important issues in philosophy. Illustrations of well-known works of art show readers how theory has application to images. Art historians and educators. … More >>

Art History’s History

Art in Story: Teaching Art History to Elementary School Children Second Edition

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This revision of the bestselling book, Art in Story, published by Linnett Professional Publications in 1997, is aimed at teachers, parents home-schooling their children, and parents and grandparents of young elementary-age children. It would also be an excellent supplementary textbook for arts education methods classes. The author’s aim is to help those working with children to develop in them a knowledge of and enthusiasm for fine art by telling stories that connect to a particular kind of art or artist. Art in Story focuses on art of the ancient world, of the East and Africa, of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Chapters consider the European Masters, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, art of America and Mexico, and computer art. Each chapter has background information for the teacher, a story completely written out as it is meant to be told, suggestions for viewing art, a journal writing activity, an art activity related to the type of art being s… More >>

Art in Story: Teaching Art History to Elementary School Children Second Edition

Barron’s AP Art History with CD-ROM

• ISBN13: 9780764194634
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• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Barron’s brand-new AP Art History test prep manual is now available with an optional CD-ROM. The book offers test takers a review of art history, starting with the earliest Western civilizations and extending to art of the present day. Additional chapters focus on non-European art traditions in India, China, Japan, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific. Major periods are reviewed in separate chapters, each containing historical background, artistic innovation, major artists and movements, key works test takers should know, and relevant vocabulary. Each chapter has multiple-choice review questions and a practice essay with a model response. Every work of art discussed is illustrated in the text with an adjoining bulleted list of its characteristics. A diagnostic exam precedes the chapters surveying art history, and two full-length AP practice exams are presented at the end of the book with answer keys, diagnostic charts, answer explanations, and model es… More >>

Barron’s AP Art History with CD-ROM

Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road

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The Mogao grottoes in China, situated near the oasis town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world’s most significant sites of Buddhist art. In some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi desert are preserved one thousand years of exquisite murals and sculpture. Mogao, founded by Buddhist monks as an isolated monastery in the late fourth century, evolved into an artistic and spiritual mecca whose renown extended from the Chinese capital to the far western kingdoms of the Silk Road. Among its treasures are miles of stunning paintings, more than two thousand statues, magnificent works on silk and paper, and thousands of ancient manuscripts, such as sutras, poems, and prayer sheets, which in 1900 were found sealed in one of the caves and then dispersed throughout the world. Illustrated in color throughout, Cave Temples of Mogao combines lavish photographs of the caves and their art with the f… More >>

Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road

The Aesthetics of Power: Essays in the Critical History of Art

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The Aesthetics of Power gathers together the key articles and essays by Carol Duncan, one of the pioneers of a new socio-political approach to art history and criticism, and one of the strongest feminist voices to emerge in the 1970s and ’80s. These essays, many of which have become classics, explore a wide variety of subjects: images of mothers, fathers, and children in eighteenth century art and culture; the image of the female nude in the context of the modern museum; and the role of modern art criticism in today’s art market. Other essays examine the contexts in which art is seen, taught, and made. Whatever her theme, Duncan treats art as a working part of a larger social reality and a pathway to understanding its deepest tensions, fears, and desires. A final section of this book is devoted to the life and collected critical writings of Cheryl Bernstein, a fictitious critic created by Duncan as parody, but who was taken as a real and eventually influen… More >>

The Aesthetics of Power: Essays in the Critical History of Art

Viewpoints: Readings in Art History

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This anthology of readings in art history and art criticism presents a thematic approach while chronicling developments in European, African, Asian, American, African-American, Latino, and Native American art. Author Carole Gold Calo offers readers an added dimension as she: *Provides a broad chronological and geographical span *Presents a multicultural orientation *Includes examples of a variety of critical and methodological approaches *Focuses on current topics such as spirituality, politics, gender, race, patronage, public art, and science… More >>

Viewpoints: Readings in Art History

The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Art History

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“Truly fun to read.” (Library Journal)

The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Art History has more than 1500 entries on artists and architects from ancient times to the present, setting works, movements, and styles into their cultural contexts. With entries on leading artists, from Alberti to Ingres to Wyeth; on period techniques and terms, from Action Painting to Mezzotint to X-radiography; on significant artistic influences and events, from the Armory Show to Marxism, to the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel, this is the ideal reference for high school and college students, as well as anyone interested in art…. More >>

The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Art History

The Silk Road: Art and History

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Celebrating the cultural heritage of the countries along the Silk Route, this text explores the ancient trade route between Europe and the Far East, more specifically between Rome and the old Chinese capital of Xian. It examines the beautiful works of art discovered in each country, and sets them in their historical and geographical context. The author provides a comprehensive history of the Silk Road, drawing freely on anecdotes and literary and historical sources he examines the lives of the merchants and other travellers who used this route. Vignettes and poems from the heydey of the great trading route punctuate a lively and colourful text, which also features Antonia Tozer’s evocative photographs…. More >>

The Silk Road: Art and History

From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History

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Designed as a comprehensive supplement to Janson’s History of Art, Sixth Edition, Hartt’s Art, Fourth Edition, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, Eleventh Edition, and Stokstad’s Art History (Revised) — but also appropriate as a stand-alone brief reference volume — this handbook defines the most common terms used in discussing the history of visual arts, relating them to specific works illustrated in these standard volumes. Topics covered include art terms, processes, and principles, gods, heroes, and monsters, Christian subjects, saints and their attributes, Christian signs and symbols, chronology of painters, photographers, sculptors, and architects, as well as maps, and a directory of museum websites…. More >>

From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History