Art history

This edition of art history is the result of a happy and productive collaboration between two scholar-teachers (Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren) who share a common vision that survey courses on the history of art should be filled with as much enjoyment as erudition, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts. Like its predecessors, this new edition seeks to balance formal and iconographic analysis with contextual art history in order to craft interpretations that will engage a diverse student population. Throughout the text, the visual arts are treated as part of a larger world, in which geography, politics, religion, economics, philosophy, social life, and the other fine arts are related components of a vibrant and cultural landscape. ~ Publisher description.

Prehistoric Art -- Art of the Ancient Near East -- Art of Ancient Egypt -- Art of the Ancient Aegean -- Art of Ancient Greece -- Etruscan and Roman Art -- Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art -- Islamic Art -- Art of South and Southeast Asia Before 1200 -- Chinese and Korean Art Before 1279 -- Japanese Art Before 1333 -- Art of the Americas Before 1300 -- Early African Art -- Early Medieval Art in Europe -- Romanesque Art -- Gothic Art of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- Fourteenth-Century Art in Europe -- Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe -- Renaissance Art in Fifteenth Century Italy -- Sixteenth-Century Art in Italy -- Sixteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula -- Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe -- Art of South and Southeast Asia after 1200 -- Chinese and Korean Art After 1279 -- Japanese Art After 1333 -- Art of the Americas After 1300 -- Art of Pacific Cultures -- Art of Africa in the Modern Era -- Eighteenth- And Early Nineteenth Century Art in Europe and North America -- Mid- to Late Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States -- Modern Art in Europe and the Americas, 1900-1950 -- The International Scene Since 1950.