Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: A Global History Volume One 16th Edition by Fred S. Kleiner, ISBN-13: 978-1337696593

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Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: A Global History Volume One 16th Edition by Fred S. Kleiner, ISBN-13: 978-1337696593

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• Publisher: ‎ Cengage Learning; 16th edition (January 1, 2019)
• Language: ‎ English
• ‎624 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1337696595
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1337696593

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Experience the wonders of human creativity in GARDNER’S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY, VOLUME I, 16th Edition! A grand tour of the world’s most celebrated works from the Stone Age to the modern era, this introductory text has been a classroom favorite for 85 years. Every chapter includes rich and compelling discussions of pivotal art works, periods and geographies in art history, as well as new artists and art forms. Of course, the bold illustrations on the pages look almost as good as the real thing, especially when you use the unique Scale feature to imagine a work’s stature from the artist’s point of view.

Table of Contents:

Brief Contents

Contents

Preface

Resources for Students and Instructors

Introduction: What Is Art History?

Art History in the 21st Century

Different Ways of Seeing

Chapter 1: Art in the Stone Age

Framing the Era: The Dawn of Art

Paleolithic Art

Neolithic Art

The Big Picture

Chapter 2: Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia

Framing the Era: Pictorial Narration in Ancient Sumer

Mesopotamia

Persia

The Big Picture

Chapter 3: Egypt from Narmer to Cleopatra

Framing the Era: Life after Death in Ancient Egypt

Egypt and Egyptology

Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods

Old Kingdom

Middle Kingdom

New Kingdom

First Millennium BCE

The Big Picture

Chapter 4: The Prehistoric Aegean

Framing the Era: Greece in the Age of Heroes

Greece before Homer

Cycladic Art

Minoan Art

Mycenaean Art

The Big Picture

Chapter 5: Ancient Greece

Framing the Era: The Perfect Temple

The Greeks and Their Gods

Geometric and Orientalizing Periods

Archaic Period

Early and High Classical Periods

Late Classical Period

Hellenistic Period

The Big Picture

Chapter 6: The Etruscans

Framing the Era: The Portal to the Etruscan Afterlife

Etruria and the Etruscans

Early Etruscan Art

Later Etruscan Art

The Big Picture

Chapter 7: The Roman Empire

Framing the Era: The Roman Emperor as World Conqueror

Rome, Caput Mundi

Republic

Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius

Early Empire

High Empire

Late Empire

The Big Picture

Chapter 8: Late Antiquity

Framing the Era: Polytheism and Monotheism at Dura-Europos

The Late Antique World

From the Soldier Emperors to the Sack of Rome

From the Sack of Rome to Justinian

The Big Picture

Chapter 9: Byzantium

Framing the Era: Church and State United

The Christian Roman Empire

Early Byzantine Art

Middle Byzantine Art

Late Byzantine Art

The Big Picture

Chapter 10: The Islamic World

Framing the Era: The Rise and Spread of Islam

Early Islamic Art

Later Islamic Art

The Big Picture

Chapter 11: Early Medieval Europe

Framing the Era: Missionaries and the Beauty of God’s Words

Europe after the Fall of Rome

Merovingians and Anglo-Saxons

Vikings

Hiberno-Saxon Monasteries

Visigothic and Mozarabic Art

Carolingian Empire

Ottonian Empire

The Big Picture

Chapter 12: Romanesque Europe

Framing the Era: The Blessed and the Damned on Judgment Day

European Culture in the New Millennium

France and Northern Spain

Holy Roman Empire

Italy

Normandy and England

The Big Picture

Chapter 13: Gothic Europe North of the Alps

Framing the Era: The Birth of Gothic

“Gothic”

France

Opus Francigenum outside France

The Big Picture

Chapter 14: Late Medieval Italy

Framing the Era: Duccio di Buoninsegna

Duecento (13th Century)

Trecento (14th Century)

The Big Picture

Chapter 15: South and Southeast Asia before 1200

Framing the Era: The Great Stupa at Sanchi

South Asia

Southeast Asia

The Big Picture

Chapter 16: China and Korea to 1279

Framing the Era: China’s First Emperor

China

Korea

The Big Picture

Chapter 17: Japan before 1333

Framing the Era: Horyuji, Japan’s Oldest Buddhist Temple

Japan before Buddhism

Buddhist Japan

The Big Picture

Chapter 18: Native American Cultures before 1300

Framing the Era: Ancient Cities in a New World

The Ancient Americas

Mesoamerica

Central America and Northern Andes

South America

North America

The Big Picture

Chapter 19: Africa before 1800

Framing the Era: The Art of the Benin Kingdom

African Peoples and Art Forms

Prehistory and Early Cultures

11th to 18th Centuries

The Big Picture

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Credits

Index

Fred S. Kleiner, Ph.D. has been professor of art history and archeology at Boston University for four decades. He taught previously at University of Virginia and served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology. Acclaimed for inspiring lectures, Dr. Kleiner won Boston University’s Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the College Prize for Undergraduate Advising in the Humanities and the Distinguished Teaching Prize in the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London as well as a member of the Text and Academic Authors Association. In addition to this title, Dr. Kleiner has authored several editions of ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY (Cengage), A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART (Cengage) and more than 100 publications on Greek and Roman art and architecture. Dr. Kleiner earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

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