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• NEW - Accessible style —Rewritten for students with less exposure or preparation to the subject material.

  • Makes this text easier for instructors to teach and easier for students to understand.

• NEW - Introduction re-edited—With cartoons accompanying text.

  • Supplies instructors with material that is lighter in tone, and in a user-friendly context. Eases students into a subject area that many find intimidating at first.

• NEW - Context boxes added—Most with illustrations.

  • Allows instructors to broaden the range of discussion. Increases students' visual interest in the text and provides them with a fuller picture of the range of related topics.

• NEW - Dramatic new color maps—Open each Part.

  • Provides students with easy-to-read, detailed, double-pages that show all sites mentioned in the Part.

• NEW - Primary Sources—Reworked throughout.

  • Exposes students to important written works created throughout the course of history. Makes it easier for instructors to introduce related primary source material into the course.

• NEW - Format redesigned —For a less text-heavy look.

  • Enables instructors to help students navigate through the material. Encourages students to keep up with their reading assignments.

• NEW - 100 additional illustrations—Over 1200 in all.

  • Offers an improved view of the artworks covered to enliven classroom discussions and increase student understanding of topics.

• NEW - Part on Ancient Art revised.

  • Presents students with more recent scholarship and additional information on Egypt, the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome.

• NEW - Chapter on Neoclassicism and Romanticism reworked.

  • Offers students additional material on theater, music, printmaking techniques, and literature.

• NEW - Greater focus on religious iconography—With emphasis on the Renaissance.

  • Discusses the inspiration of Poliziano in Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Raphael's Galatea, and the symbolism of Giorgione's The Tempest.

• Over forty concise discussions of cultural developments—Paralleling movements in art from ancient Greek times through our own Postmodern era.

  • Provides students with insightful, cross disciplinary essays focusing mainly on music and theater, and also including topics such as Greek and Roman mythology, Christian iconography, Western monastic orders, and medieval guilds.

• History of styles focused on—From the 30,000-year-old paintings at Chauvet cave in southern France to today's experimental installations.

  • Makes connections and comparisons among styles and cultures.

• Solid coverage of painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography.

  • Incorporates major works—in color—to establish chronological relationships.

• Highest-quality color and duotone black-and-white illustrations—As well as diagrams and plans.

  • Assembles an unsurpassed quantity of subtle, true, five-color (many full page), and rich black-and-white photos, as well as line drawings (printed on matte-coated paper), in close proximity to text references.

• 104 substantive excerpts—Each 3-4 paragraphs in length.

  • Provides students with important primary-source writings on art for specific major periods—from Ancient Egypt to Postmodernism—to lend a real context for the study of art.

• 200-word part introduction.

  • Details for students selected events in history that had a particular impact on art.

• Four multipage timelines.

  • Illustrates for students—in full color—events in art, history, religion, philosophy, science, technology, and literature.

New To This Edition

• Accessible style —Rewritten for students with less exposure or preparation to the subject material.

  • Makes this text easier for instructors to teach and easier for students to understand.

• Introduction re-edited—With cartoons accompanying text.

  • Supplies instructors with material that is lighter in tone, and in a user-friendly context. Eases students into a subject area that many find intimidating at first.

• Context boxes added—Most with illustrations.

  • Allows instructors to broaden the range of discussion. Increases students' visual interest in the text and provides them with a fuller picture of the range of related topics.

• Dramatic new color maps—Open each Part.

  • Provides students with easy-to-read, detailed, double-pages that show all sites mentioned in the Part.

• Primary Sources—Reworked throughout.

  • Exposes students to important written works created throughout the course of history. Makes it easier for instructors to introduce related primary source material into the course.

• Format redesigned —For a less text-heavy look.

  • Enables instructors to help students navigate through the material. Encourages students to keep up with their reading assignments.

• 100 additional illustrations—Over 1200 in all.

  • Offers an improved view of the artworks covered to enliven classroom discussions and increase student understanding of topics.

• Part on Ancient Art revised.

  • Presents students with more recent scholarship and additional information on Egypt, the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome.

• Chapter on Neoclassicism and Romanticism reworked.

  • Offers students additional material on theater, music, printmaking techniques, and literature.

• Greater focus on religious iconography—With emphasis on the Renaissance.

  • Discusses the inspiration of Poliziano in Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Raphael's Galatea, and the symbolism of Giorgione's The Tempest.

Table of Contents

(NOTE: Volume I consists of Parts I and II; Volume II consists of Parts III and IV; Combined Volume consists of Parts I-IV).

I. THE ANCIENT WORLD.

II. THE MIDDLE AGES.

III. THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO.

IV. THE MODERN WORLD.

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• Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition, 8/E
  Davies, Denny, Hofrichter, Jacobs, Roberts & Simon
  ©2011  |  Pearson  |  Cloth; 1184 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 020568517X  |  ISBN-13: 9780205685172
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  For courses in the History of Art.

   

  Rewritten and reorganized, this new edition weaves together the most recent scholarship, the most current thinking in art history, and the most innovative online supplements, including MyArtsLab and the Prentice Hall Digital Art Library. Experience the new Janson and re-experience the history of art.

   

  Long established as the classic and seminal introduction to art of the Western world, the Eighth Edition of Janson's History of Art is groundbreaking. When Harry Abrams first published the History of Art in 1962, John F. Kennedy occupied the White House, and Andy Warhol was an emerging artist.  Janson offered his readers a strong focus on Western art, an important consideration of technique and style, and a clear point of view. The History of Art, said Janson, was not just a stringing together of historically significant objects, but the writing of a story about their interconnections, a history of styles and of stylistic change. Janson’s text focused on the visual and technical characteristics of the objects he discussed, often in extraordinarily eloquent language. Janson’s History of Art helped to establish the canon of art history for many generations of scholars.

   

  The new Eighth Edition, although revised to remain current with new discoveries and scholarship, continues to follow Janson’s lead in important ways: It is limited to the Western tradition, with a chapter on Islamic art and its relationship to Western art. It keeps the focus of the discussion on the object, its manufacture, and its visual character. It considers the contribution of the artist as an important part of the analysis. This edition maintains an organization along the lines established by Janson, with separate chapters on the Northern European Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance, the High Renaissance, and Baroque art, with stylistic divisions for key periods of the modern era. Also embedded in this edition is the narrative of how art has changed over time in the cultures that Europe has claimed as its patrimony.

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©2001  |  Pearson  |  On-line Supplement  |  Live
ISBN-10: 0130318965  |  ISBN-13: 9780130318961
This online resource is available at no cost at http://www.prenhall.com/janson.
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