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Janson's Basic of History of Western Art, Books a la Carte Edition

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ISBN-10: 0205242812

ISBN-13: 9780205242818

Edition: 9th 2014

Authors: Penelope J. E. Davies, Frima Fox Hofrichter, Joseph F. Jacobs, Ann M. Roberts, David F. Simon

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A concise introduction to the Western tradition in art.Janson's Basic History of Art provides readers with a beautifully illustrated and masterfully concise introduction to the Western tradition of art history. The text centers discussions around the object, its manufacture, and its visual character. It considers the contribution of the artist as an important part of the analysis.This edition creates a narrative of how art has changed over time in the cultures that Europe has claimed as its patrimony and that Americans have claimed through their connection to Europe. Janson's Basic History of Western Art continues to maintain separate chapters on the Northern European Renaissance, the…    
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List price: $126.65
Edition: 9th
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 1/4/2013
Binding: Looseleaf - sheets only 
Pages: 688
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 4.620
Language: English

Penelope J. E. Daviesis Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a scholar of Greek and Roman art and architecture as well as a field archaeologist. She is author ofDeath and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, winner of the Vasari Award. nbsp; Walter B. Dennyis a Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.nbsp; In addition to exhibition catalogues, his publications include books on Ottoman Turkish carpets, textiles, and ceramics, and articles on miniature painting, architecture and architectural decoration. nbsp; Frima Fox Hofrichteris Professor and former Chair of the History of Art and Design…    

Penelope J. E. Daviesis Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a scholar of Greek and Roman art and architecture as well as a field archaeologist. She is author ofDeath and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, winner of the Vasari Award. nbsp; Walter B. Dennyis a Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.nbsp; In addition to exhibition catalogues, his publications include books on Ottoman Turkish carpets, textiles, and ceramics, and articles on miniature painting, architecture and architectural decoration. nbsp; Frima Fox Hofrichteris Professor and former Chair of the History of Art and Design…    

Penelope J. E. Daviesis Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a scholar of Greek and Roman art and architecture as well as a field archaeologist. She is author ofDeath and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, winner of the Vasari Award. nbsp; Walter B. Dennyis a Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.nbsp; In addition to exhibition catalogues, his publications include books on Ottoman Turkish carpets, textiles, and ceramics, and articles on miniature painting, architecture and architectural decoration. nbsp; Frima Fox Hofrichteris Professor and former Chair of the History of Art and Design…    

In this Section:
Brief Table of Contents
Full Table of Contents
Brief Table Of Contents:
The Ancient World
Prehistoric Art
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Egyptian Art
Aegean Art
Greek Art
Etruscan Art
Roman Art
The Middle Ages
Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
Islamic Art
Early Medieval Art
Romanesque Art
Gothic Art
The Renaissance Through The Rococo: Early Modern Europe
Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy
Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe
The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy
The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520
The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Renaissance and Reformation throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe
The Baroque in Italy and Spain
The Baroque in the Netherlands
The Baroque in France and England
The Rococo
The Modern World
Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789
Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789-1848
The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848-1885
Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905
Toward Abstraction: The Modernist Revolution, 1905-1914
Art Between the Wars
Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980
The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980
Full Table Of Contents:
The Ancient World
Prehistoric Art
Paleolithic Art
Neolithic Art
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Sumerian Art
Art of Akkad
Neo-Sumerian Revival
Babylonian Art
Assyrian Art
Late Babylonian Art
Persian Art
Egyptian Art
Predynastic and Early Dynastic Art
The Old Kingdom: A Golden Age
The Middle Kingdom: Reasserting Tradition
The New Kingdom: Restored Glory
Akhenaten and the Amarna Style
Aegean Art
Early Cycladic Art
Minoan Art
Mycenaean Art
Greek Art
The emergence of Greek Art: The Geometric Style
The Orientalizing Style: Horizons Expand
Archaic Art: Art of the City-State
The Classical Age
The Age of Alexander and the Hellenistic Period
Etruscan Art
Funerary Art
Architecture
Sculpture
Roman Art
Early Rome and the Republic
The Early Empire
Art and Architecture in the Provinces
Domestic Art And Architecture in the Proviences
The Middle Ages
Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
Jewish Art
Early Christian Art
Byzantine Art
Islamic Art
The formation of Islamic Art
The Development of Islamic Style
Islamic Art and the Persian Inheritance
The Ottoman Empire
Early Medieval Art
Anglo-Saxon Art
Hiberno-Saxon Art
Carolingian Art
Ottonian Art
Romanesque Art
First Expressions of Romanesque Style
Mature Romanesque
Regional Variants of the Romanesque Style
Gothic Art
Early Gothic Art in France
High Gothic Art in France
Rayonnant or Court Style
Late Gothic Art in France
The Spread of Gothic Art
The Renaissance Through The Rococo: Early Modern Europe
Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy
The Cities and the Mendicant
New Directions in Tuscan Painting
Late Fourteen-Century Crises
Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe
Courtly Art: The International Gothic
Urban Centers and the New Art
Regional Responses to the Early Netherlandish Style
Printing and the Graphic Arts
The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy
The inspiration of Antiquity in Florence
Italian Art During the Era of the Medici, 1434094
The Renaissance Palace and its Furnishings, CA. 1440-90
The Renaissance Style Reverberates, 1450-1500
The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520
Leonardo and the Florentine High Renaissance
The High Renaissance in Rome
Venice and the High Rennaissance
The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Late Renaissance Florence
Rome Refermed
Cities and Courts in Northern Italy and Venice
Renaissance and Reformation throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe
France and Spain: Catholic Courts and Italian Influence
Central Europe: The Reformation and Art
Protestant Courts and Cities and New Forms of Art
The Netherlands: World Marketplace
The Baroque in Italy and Spain
Painting in Italy
Architecture in Italy
Sculpture in Italy
Painting in Spain
The Baroque in the Netherlands
Flanders
The Dutch Republic
The Market: Landscape, Still Life and Genre Painting
The Baroque in France and England
France: The Style of Louis XIV
Baroque Architecture in England
The Rococo
France: The Rise of the Rococo
Western European Rococo outside France
The Rococo in Central Europe
The Modern World
Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789
Rome Toward 1760: The Front of Neoclassicism
Rome Toward 1960: Romanticism
Neoclassicism in Britain
Early Romanticism in Britain
Neoclassicism in France
Italian Neoclassicism Towards 1785
Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789-1848
Painting
Sculpture
Romantic Revivals in Architecture
The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848-1885
Realism in France
British Realism
Realism in America
Photography: A Mechanical Medium for Mass-produced Art
Architecture and the Industrial Revolution
Ferroviteous Structures: Train Sheds and Exhibition Palaces
Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905
Post-Impressionism
Symbolism
Art Nouveau and the Search for Modern Design
American Architecture: The Chicago School
Photography
Toward Abstraction: The Modernist Revolution, 1905-1914
Fauvism
Cubism
The Impact of Fauvism and Cubism
Modernist Sculpture: Constantin Brancusi
American Art
Early Modern Architecture in Europe
Art Between the Wars
Dada
Surrealism
Organic Sculpture
Creating Utopias
Art in America: Modernity, Spirituality, and Regionalism
Mexican Art: Seeking National Identity
The Eve of World War II
Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980
Existentialism in New York: Abstract Expressionism
Rejecting Abstract Expressionism: American Art of the 1950s and1960s
Formalist Abstraction of the 1950s and 1960s
The Pluralist 1970s: Post-Minimalism
Art with a Social Agenda
Late Modernist Architecture
The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980
Architecture
Poster-minimalism and Pluralism: Limitless Possibilities