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Gardners Art Through the Age 15th Edition Book a

Gardner's Fine art through the Ages: Backpack Edition, Books A - F, 15th Edition

Gardner's Art through the Ages

Published: © 2016

Print ISBN: 9781285837970

Pages: 1440

Accolade-winning scholar-professor Fred Kleiner continues to set the standard for art history textbooks, combining impeccable scholarship with an engaging approach that discusses the almost significant artworks and monuments in their full historical and cultural contexts. The most widely read and respected history of fine art and compages in the English language for over 85 years, the 15th edition of GARDNER'S ART… More

For Instructors

For Students

  • Digital Solutions

  • Table of Contents

  • New to this edition

  • Features

  • About the author(s)

  • Reviews

Volume A: Antiquity
Introduction: What is Art History?
1. Art in the Stone Age.
two. Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia.
3. Egypt from Narmer to Cleopatra.
iv. The Prehistoric Aegean.
5. Ancient Hellenic republic.
half dozen. The Etruscans.
7. The Roman Empire.
Book B: THE MIDDLE AGES.
8. Late Artifact.
ix. Byzantium.
10. The Islamic World.
11. Early on Medieval Europe.
12. Romanesque Europe.
13. Gothic Europe.
fourteen. Belatedly Medieval Italian republic.
Book C: Not-WESTERN ART TO 1300.
Introduction: What is Art History?
10. The Islamic World.
15. South and Southeast Asia before 1200.
16. China and Korea to 1279.
17. Nippon earlier 1333.
18. Native American Cultures before 1300.
19. Africa before 1800.
Book D: RENAISSANCE AND Bizarre ART.
Introduction: What is Art History?
Before 1300.
xiv. Late Medieval Italy.
twenty. Late Medieval and Early on Renaissance Fine art in Northern Europe.
21. The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy.
22. Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italian republic.
23. High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain.
24. The Baroque in Italy and Spain.
25. The Baroque in Northern Europe.
Book E: Mod EUROPE AND AMERICA.
26. Rococo to Neoclassicism: The 18th Century in Europe and America.
27. Romanticism, Realism, Photography: Europe and America, 1800 to 1870.
28. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America, 1870 to 1900.
29. Modernism in Europe and America, 1900 to 1945.
30. Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980.
31. Contemporary Art Worldwide.
Book F: NON-WESTERN Art SINCE 1300.
32. South and Southeast Asia, 1200 to 1980.
33. People's republic of china and Korea, 1279 to 1980.
34. Japan, 1333 to 1980.
35. Native American Cultures, 1300 to 1980.
36. Oceania before 1980.
37. Africa, 1800 to 1980.

  • The most widely read and respected art history text is now available on MindTap, a highly customizable multimedia teaching and learning platform. All the features and assets previously found on CourseMate are at present here, and much more than!
  • The 15th edition includes Google World coordinates for all sites and works discussed in the text to aid you bring your students on a virtual bout of art through the ages.
  • New architecture videos, bachelor on MindTap, give students a virtual bout of pregnant monuments and sites and the feeling of "being there" while learning more than nearly interior and outside features and details.
  • "Problems and Solutions" and "The Patron'due south Vocalisation" text boxes add a farther dimension to students' agreement of particular works and movements.
  • All maps have been updated and revised for clarity and accuracy, helping students to brand geographical connections betwixt places and sites.
  • The 15th edition includes the images that you want to teach. It thoroughly represents the art history canon and presents a breadth and depth of images unparalleled in other fine art texts.
  • To meet our goal of providing you lot and your students with the highest-quality book possible, this new edition includes more than 200 new full-colour or improved images for clarity and color-fidelity.
  • Scales, not available in any other fine art history textbook, are placed adjacent to images in the text to help students better visualize the size of each work. These innovative scales assist students grasp the importance of scale which, similar composition, color, line, and other terms used in describing an artwork, is critical in helping students see the artist's purpose. All photographs of paintings, statues, and other artwork (with the exception of compages and a few other items) shown in this edition are accompanied past these scales.
  • Exquisitely rendered by John Burge, full-color reconstructions give students iii-dimensional views of important architectural sites, helping them visualize what it might have felt similar to walk through these sites when they existed.
  • "The Large Picture," a great full-folio resource for review and retentivity, concludes each chapter. This visual summary includes bullet-point synopses of the most important characteristics of each flow discussed in the chapter, accompanied by pocket-sized illustrations of characteristic works of the periods. As students review the summary points, they will reinforce their agreement visually with the associated thumbnail images of representative artworks.

Fred Due south. Kleiner, Ph.D.

Fred Due south. Kleiner, Ph.D. has been professor of fine art history and archaeology at Boston Academy for iv decades. He taught previously at University of Virginia and served equally editor-in-main of the American Journal of Archeology. Acclaimed for inspiring lectures, Dr. Kleiner won Boston University's Metcalf Honor for Excellence in Teaching, the College Prize for Undergraduate Advising in the Humanities and the Distinguished Pedagogy Prize in the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. He is a fellow of the Club of Antiquaries of London every bit well as a member of the Text and Academic Authors Association. In addition to this championship, Dr. Kleiner has authored several editions of ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY (Cengage), A HISTORY OF ROMAN Fine art (Cengage) and more than 100 publications on Greek and Roman fine art and architecture. Dr. Kleiner earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

"I have taught Survey of Art using Gardner since 1974. The Kleiner versions are masterpieces." - Susan McCombs, Michigan State University
"I find ART THROUGH THE AGES to exist head and shoulders above other survey texts in terms of its contextual treatment of the objects. Fred Kleiner's interest in explaining how and why objects functioned within their social, religious, political and funerary contexts effectively opens the door for further learning in the classroom." - Brenda Longfellow, University of Iowa

Book A: ANTIQUITY
Introduction: What is Art History?
i. Fine art in the Rock Age.
2. Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia.
3. Egypt from Narmer to Cleopatra.
4. The Prehistoric Aegean.
v. Ancient Greece.
6. The Etruscans.
vii. The Roman Empire.
Book B: THE Center AGES.
8. Late Artifact.
ix. Byzantium.
ten. The Islamic World.
xi. Early Medieval Europe.
12. Romanesque Europe.
13. Gothic Europe.
xiv. Belatedly Medieval Italian republic.
Volume C: Not-WESTERN ART TO 1300.
Introduction: What is Art History?
10. The Islamic World.
15. Southward and Southeast Asia before 1200.
16. Red china and Korea to 1279.
17. Japan earlier 1333.
18. Native American Cultures before 1300.
xix. Africa before 1800.
Volume D: RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART.
Introduction: What is Art History?
Earlier 1300.
14. Late Medieval Italy.
20. Late Medieval and Early on Renaissance Fine art in Northern Europe.
21. The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy.
22. Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy.
23. High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain.
24. The Baroque in Italia and Kingdom of spain.
25. The Baroque in Northern Europe.
Book East: MODERN EUROPE AND AMERICA.
26. Rococo to Neoclassicism: The 18th Century in Europe and America.
27. Romanticism, Realism, Photography: Europe and America, 1800 to 1870.
28. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America, 1870 to 1900.
29. Modernism in Europe and America, 1900 to 1945.
30. Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980.
31. Contemporary Art Worldwide.
Book F: Non-WESTERN Fine art SINCE 1300.
32. South and Southeast Asia, 1200 to 1980.
33. China and Korea, 1279 to 1980.
34. Japan, 1333 to 1980.
35. Native American Cultures, 1300 to 1980.
36. Oceania before 1980.
37. Africa, 1800 to 1980.

  • The most widely read and respected art history text is now available on MindTap, a highly customizable multimedia instruction and learning platform. All the features and avails previously found on CourseMate are now here, and much more than!
  • The 15th edition includes Google Earth coordinates for all sites and works discussed in the text to assistance you bring your students on a virtual tour of fine art through the ages.
  • New compages videos, available on MindTap, give students a virtual tour of significant monuments and sites and the feeling of "being in that location" while learning more about interior and exterior features and details.
  • "Problems and Solutions" and "The Patron's Vocalisation" text boxes add together a further dimension to students' understanding of particular works and movements.
  • All maps have been updated and revised for clarity and accuracy, helping students to make geographical connections between places and sites.
  • The 15th edition includes the images that you want to teach. It thoroughly represents the art history catechism and presents a breadth and depth of images unparalleled in other art texts.
  • To come across our goal of providing y'all and your students with the highest-quality book possible, this new edition includes more than 200 new full-color or improved images for clarity and color-fidelity.
  • Scales, not available in any other art history textbook, are placed next to images in the text to help students better visualize the size of each work. These innovative scales help students grasp the importance of calibration which, similar limerick, color, line, and other terms used in describing an artwork, is critical in helping students encounter the artist's purpose. All photographs of paintings, statues, and other artwork (with the exception of architecture and a few other items) shown in this edition are accompanied by these scales.
  • Exquisitely rendered by John Burge, full-color reconstructions give students three-dimensional views of of import architectural sites, helping them visualize what it might accept felt like to walk through these sites when they existed.
  • "The Big Pic," a keen full-folio resource for review and retention, concludes each affiliate. This visual summary includes bullet-point synopses of the most of import characteristics of each period discussed in the chapter, accompanied by small illustrations of feature works of the periods. As students review the summary points, they will reinforce their understanding visually with the associated thumbnail images of representative artworks.

Fred Southward. Kleiner, Ph.D.

Fred S. Kleiner, Ph.D. has been professor of art history and archeology at Boston University for four decades. He taught previously at Academy of Virginia and served every bit editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology. Acclaimed for inspiring lectures, Dr. Kleiner won Boston University's Metcalf Laurels for Excellence in Pedagogy, the College Prize for Undergraduate Advising in the Humanities and the Distinguished Didactics Prize in the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. He is a boyfriend 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 than 100 publications on Greek and Roman art and compages. Dr. Kleiner earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

"I have taught Survey of Art using Gardner since 1974. The Kleiner versions are masterpieces." - Susan McCombs, Michigan State University
"I detect Fine art THROUGH THE AGES to exist head and shoulders above other survey texts in terms of its contextual treatment of the objects. Fred Kleiner'southward interest in explaining how and why objects functioned within their social, religious, political and funerary contexts effectively opens the door for further learning in the classroom." - Brenda Longfellow, Academy of Iowa

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