Gardner's Western Art Through the Ages: v. 2 - Softcover

Kleiner, Fred; Mamiya, Christian J.; Tansey, Richard G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534610943 ISBN 13: 9780534610944

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

This new alternative, GARDNER'S WESTERN ART THROUGH THE AGES, offers instructors and students a brief, strictly Western approach to art history and retains all of the hallmark features of the market-leading Eleventh Edition in a concise 23-chapter format (also available in a two-volume split). Unique to books with a Western Art focus, the authors retain the chapter on Islam, providing students with insightful coverage of the Islamic tradition's impact on Western culture and art history. Featuring an outstanding art program with more color photos than any comparable art history survey textbook, the authors focus on the context and function of the role of art.

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Synopsis:

Presenting a heavily illustrated history of western art, from the Gothic to the Post-Modern (that is, roughly, from the fourteenth through the twentieth centuries), this textbook begins with a discussion of the subjects of art, the vocabulary with which it is discussed, and different ways of seeing. It then describes the various movements that have

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0534610943
• ISBN 13: 9780534610944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 556