Art History, Combined - Hardcover

Stokstad, Marilyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0132368544 ISBN 13: 9780132368544

Publisher: Pearson, 2007

Synopsis

For two-semester courses in Art History, Global Art History, and for Introductory Art courses taught from a historical perspective.

 

Based on more than forty years that Marilyn Stokstad has been introducing the history of art to students and to the public, she found that the first goal of an introductory course should be to nurture an educated, enthusiastic public for the arts. She firmly believes that students and lay readers can and should enjoy their introduction to art history. Only then will they learn to appreciate art as the most tangible creation of the human imagination.

 

Marilyn Stokstad offers students the most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive global art history survey. 

 

Also available in two volumes:

Stokstad, Art History, Volume 1; ISBN 0131743201

Stokstad, Art History, Volume 2; ISBN 013199140X

 

Also available in Portable editions: 

Stokstad, Art History, Book 1: Ancient Art; ISBN 0136040977           

Stokstad, Art History, Book 2: Medieval Art; ISBN 0136054056           

Stokstad, Art History, Book 3: A View of the World, Part One; ISBN 0136054064           

Stokstad, Art History, Book 4: 14th - 17th Century Art; ISBN 0136054072           

Stokstad, Art History, Book 5: A View of the World, Part Two; ISBN 0136054080           

Stokstad, Art History, Book 6: 18th - 21st Century; ISBN 0136054099

 

Also available in a Western Art Versions:

Stokstad, Art History: A View of the West, Combined Volume; ISBN 0132250675 

Stokstad, Art History: A View of the West, Volume I; ISBN 0131566105 

Stokstad, Art History: A View of the West, Volume II; ISBN 013156577X

 

Please visit www.prenhall.com/arthistory for more information and to view a video from author, Marilyn Stokstad, to see a chapter from the book and an online demo of the Prentice Hall Digital Art Library.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

IN A VERY SHORT TIME, Marilyn Stokstad's Art History has become the gold standard of introductions to the history of art. It also has transformed the way the field of art history is perceived and experienced. Engaging, accessible, and, just as important, fun, Art History gives today's readers cultural and social contexts for art along with eloquent visual explanations of art's special qualities and particular vocabularies. Its animated yet clear narrative tells the many-sided story of art, starting with the earliest prehistoric paintings and sculpture through today's wildly varying works in new mediums.

THE SECOND EDITION is illustrated with more than 900 color illustrations―including 360 new color pictures of recently cleaned and restored monuments, buildings, and art objects, and also many works that were previously illustrated in black-and-white. A new design enables larger pictures and more drawings and diagrams than ever. The art object is honored in the Second Edition with more than 20 one- and two-page features called "The Object Speaks" that offer tantalizing insights into art history's particular lure: matters of authenticity, provenance, intention, patronage, technical processes, and the like. Art History's widely acclaimed special-topic boxes on architecture and technique and its many new text boxes strengthen this edition. Coverage of the modern era―chapter 26 through chapter 29l;has been thoroughly reworked by modernist art historian David Cateforis, complementing the revision of material in chapters 17, 18, and 19 from the Renaissance through the Baroque periods. Throughout the book, authors Stokstad and Cateforis have balanced canonical works of art with works not seen in other introductory books.

WITH ITS EXCELLENT COLOR and black-and-white illustrations and Abrams, unparalleled color printing, Art History, Second Edition, is a book to learn from and treasure as a lifelong resource.

About the Author:

MARILYN STOKSTAD, teacher, art historian, museum curator, and lecturer, has been a leader in her field for decades. She is Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History at The University of Kansas, Lawrence, where she has been on the faculty since 1958 and has served in various academic and administrative leadership capacities, including at the University's Spencer Museum of Art. She is consultant to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Stokstad has served as president of College Art Association and the International Center of Medieval Art. Her special field is medieval art.

DAVID CATEFORIS is Associate Professor of Art History at The University of Kansas. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. Modern art is his specialty.

STEPHEN ADDISS is Tucker Boatwright Professor in the Humanities at the University of Richmond, Virginia. Author of many books, including The Art of Zen (Abrams, 1989) and How to Look at Japanese Art (Abrams, 1995), Addiss is also a translator from the Japanese, a musician, and a calligraphic artist and ceramicist.

CHU-TSING LI, Professor Emeritus at The University of Kansas, is a renowned authority on Chinese art. His books include The Chinese Scholar'sStudio (1987).

MARYLIN M. RHIE, coauthor with Robert A. F. Thurman of Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet (Abrams, 1991) and other important publications on Chinese Buddhist art, is Jessie Wells Post Professor of Art and Professor of East Asian Studies at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

CHRISTOPHER D. ROY is Professor of Art History at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and author of Art and Life in Africa (1985, 1992), numerous journal articles, and museum catalogs on African art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0132368544
• ISBN 13: 9780132368544
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1296