Art history a view of the west third edition

Marilyn Stokstad, University of Kansas. If You're an Educator Download instructor resources Additional order info. Overview Features Contents Order Overview. Hallmark Features How do you place the study of art history in context for your students? Art History provides the essential context of the history of art — the text treats the arts and architecture within the essential context of history, geography, sociology, politics, religion and the other arts of the time.

This enables students to see the origination of many major works. Boxed Essays in text: Elements of Architecture boxes - help explain basic architectural forms and terminology, which can often be challenging subject matter for students. Technique boxes allow students to explore how artworks were created, from prehistoric cave paintings to Renaissance frescoes to photographs.

The Object Speaks feature—Appears in each chapter to offer students an in-depth look at a single work of art. Excellent illustration program— Art History has the most comprehensive, current and color-accurate collection of reproductions available in a survey text, with nearly illustrations, over in full-color, including new line drawings and cutaways commissioned specifically for this text.

Do you look for an inclusive text? The contributions of diverse artists, media and subject matter is integrated into every chapter to show students the role of women in the arts. New to This Edition. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Art History , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details.

More filters. Sort order. Nov 11, Freya Magnusson rated it really liked it Shelves: art-read. Jul 06, Noelle added it Shelves: art. This was for school initially but I've been reading a little about each piece over the last 3 years. Although I will reread it many times I still think I'll never know it all.

Madison rated it it was amazing Nov 15, Selene rated it really liked it Oct 13, Brenden rated it liked it Dec 22, Do you look for an inclusive text? The contributions of diverse artists, media and subject matter is integrated into every chapter to show students the role of women in the arts.

New to This Edition. New Content: Renaissance chapters reorganized from two to four chapters — 15 th century and 16 th century Italy each have a separate chapter. How important in scholarship to you? NEW — Scholarship and research - reflects trends and new discoveries impacting the field of Art History and makes this a complete and up-to-date resource for professors and studen ts.

For example, the recently revised dates for ancient Egyptian art and the recreations of familiar masterworks, such as the new Augustus of Primaporta have been incorporated. How do you evaluate the quality of the illustration program? NEW- Enhanced image program — every image that could be obtained in color has been acquired.

The line art program has been enhanced with color for better readability. NEW- Architectural cutaway drawings and reconstructions by Dorling Kindersley - help students to better understand this challeging subject.

The line drawings show how the parts of buildings work together in a 3-dimensional representation and new reconstructions have been added, all in full color, to bring ruins to life and show students what the site originally looked like.

New student-focused features: How do you prepare your students to handle the amount of material covered in the course? If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below. Borrow Listen.

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