Art Past/Art Present - Hardcover

Wilkins, David G.; Schultz, Bernard; Linduff, Katheryn M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810919370 ISBN 13: 9780810919372

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994

Synopsis

In this innovative survey of art around the world, we learn that art communicates across time and history, highlighting the diversity and communality of human experience.  Beautifully designed in two or four page spreads, each chapter of this book is devoted to one major period of art history and covers both western and non-western art, dynamically connecting art from disparate parts of the globe

About this title

From the Back Cover:

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEW EDITION

This new fifth edition of Art Past Art Present builds on its reputation for balanced coverage of global art, with new sect in Chapter 3 "Ancient Art," on the Olmec in Mesoamerica, Nomadic Art in Siberia, the Han Dynasty in China, and Dongson Culture in Vietnam. Chapter 4, "Art from 200-1400," no", includes Moai Ancestor Figures from Polynesia, an The Great Mosque at Jenne, while later chapters see new units on Machu Picchu, The Taj Mahal, and eighteenth-century art in Korea. Coverage of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has been comprehensively revised and expanded, in Chapter 10 "Art from 1900-1949," Chapter 11 "Art from 1950-1999," and the newly created Chapter 12 "Art in the Nee Millennium," which includes such works as Mariko Mori's Wave UFO, and Bill Viola's Five Angels for the Millennium.

About the Author:

David G. Wilkins is Professor Emeritus of art History and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.  Bernard Schultz is professor of art History at West Virginia University.  Katheryn M. Linduff is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburg.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0810919370
• ISBN 13: 9780810919372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 608