World Views: Topics in Non-Western Art - Softcover

Adams, Laurie Schneider

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072872020 ISBN 13: 9780072872026

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003

Synopsis

This text comprises eleven chapters, each focusing on a discrete area of non-Western or Native American art. With nearly 180 illustrations (many in full color) and an accessible 8 1/2 x 11 format, students are introduced to important subjects and artworks outside of the Western tradition.

About this title

About the Author

Laurie Schneider Adams received a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University. She is Professor of Art History at John Jay College, City University of New York, where she teaches art survey, and at the Graduate Center, where she teaches courses on the Italian Renaissance and on Art and Psychoanalysis. She has published articles on iconography and on art and psychology. She is the editor of Giotto in Perspectiveand of the journal Source: Notes in the History of Art; the author of A History of Western Art, The Methodologies of Art, Art and Psychoanalysis, and Art on Trial; and co-author (with Maria Grazia Pernis) of Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Malatesta: The Eagle and the Elephant and of 5 children's books (with Allison Coudert).

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072872020
• ISBN 13: 9780072872026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160