Art Across Time

• Author : Laurie Adams
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
• Release Date : 1999
• ISBN : 0072300337

30,000 years of art – one engaging guide. Can’t tell a Manet from a Monet? Not sure why you should want to? Let scholar and author Laurie Adams introduce you to the story behind the history of art. Based on her art survey textbook of the same name, this edition of Art Across Time serves as an entertaining and readable introduction to the history of art. Providing biographical notes and historical context, Adams has created a vivid narrative. Each illustration has

• Author : Laurie Schneider Adams
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2018-03-08
• ISBN : 9780429981838

A pioneering overview of art and psychoanalysis that shows how each field can enrich and enlarge the other.

• Author : Laurie Adams
• Publisher : Pearson College Division
• Release Date : 2003
• ISBN : UOM:39015055814621

This book of eight brief chapters on different aspects of the visual arts is designed to explore the nature of imagery and its relevance to many facets of our lives. Drawing on a wealth of examples from Western and non-Western art through the ages, it examines a wide range of themes, from the relationship between form and meaning, to the methodologies of art-historical analysis, to the controversies that have surrounded certain works of art both past and present.

• Author : Laurie Schneider Adams
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2018-05-04
• ISBN : 9780429974748

Now thoroughly revised and updated throughout, featuring extended discussions of Mannerism and the expanding role of women in the visual arts and significant illustration program enhancements, Italian Renaissance Art is a readable, student-friendly, lavishly-illustrated introduction to one of the greatest periods of artistic genius in western history. Art historian Laurie Schneider Adams opens the text with the late Byzantine work of Cimabue and concludes with the transition to Mannerism. The author presents the most important and innovative artists and their

• Author : Laurie Adams
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
• Release Date : 2010-02-12
• ISBN : 0077353730

Art across Time combines sound scholarship, lavish visuals, and a lively narrative to provide students with a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging introduction to Art History. Popular with majors and non-majors alike, the text offers readers more than a chronology of art by placing each work within the time-and-place context within which it was created. Encountering and interpreting a work of art in context offers the reader the richest possible experience of it. Large scale and high quality visual reproductions of

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
• Release Date : 2013-07-05
• ISBN : 9780806189123

Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied—a German naturalist—and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832–34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors—designed to illustrate Maximilian’s journals—now rank among the great treasures of nineteenth-century American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmer’s landscape images with modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing

• Author : Laurie Adams
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill College
• Release Date : 1999
• ISBN : 0697274802

Book Description: 30,000 years of art -- one engaging guide. Can't tell a Manet from a Monet? Not sure why you should want to? Let scholar and author Laurie Adams introduce you to the story behind the history of art. Based on her art survey textbook of the same name, this edition of Art Across Time serves as an entertaining and readable introduction to the history of art. Providing biographical notes and historical context, Adams has created a vivid narrative. Each

• Author : Phaidon Editors
• Publisher : Phaidon Press
• Release Date : 2019-02-27
• ISBN : 0714877298

An accessible, comprehensive, freshly-updated celebration of the vast range of human artistry from 28,000 BC to today Brought completely up to date for this revised edition and now available in a compact new format, this new edition of Phaidon's groundbreaking book presents art differently from all other compendia by revealing the huge diversity – or in many cases, the similarity – of artistic achievements around the globe. Images of more than 600 works from all periods and regions are arranged in chronological order, each

• Author : Editors of Phaidon Press
• Publisher : Phaidon Press
• Release Date : 2009-03-28
• ISBN : 0714849693

Chronologically presents five hundred examples of art from different countries, cultures, and civilizations and discusses what makes each piece both unique and representative.

• Author : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2019-02-26
• ISBN : 9780691182681

Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-June 23, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

• Author : Laurie Adams
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
• Release Date : 2004
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105121878412

This text comprises eleven chapters, each focusing on a discrete area of non-Western or Native American art. With nearly 180 illustrations (many in full color) and an accessible 8 1/2 x 11 format, students are introduced to important subjects and artworks outside of the Western tradition.

• Author : Laurie Schneider Adams
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
• Release Date : 2010-02-12
• ISBN : 0073379239

Art across Time combines sound scholarship, lavish visuals, and a lively narrative to provide students with a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging introduction to Art History. Popular with majors and non-majors alike, the text offers readers more than a chronology of art by placing each work within the time-and-place context within which it was created. Encountering and interpreting a work of art in context offers the reader the richest possible experience of it. Large scale and high quality visual reproductions of

• Author : College Art Association (U.S.)
• Publisher : Friar's Lantern Incorporated
• Release Date : 2000
• ISBN : UCSD:31822028479152

Many pieces of important artwork, including Miro's 'Personnages Oiseaux' and Rembrandt's 'Head of Christ', are displayed not in famous museums or galleries, but in the collections of academic institutions. Intended to assist art lovers in planning more productive and enjoyable excursions, this guide provides essential information on the art on display at over 730 colleges and universities. Listings are organised by state, city, and academic institution and include practical information (parking, hours, fees) as well as detailed descriptions of holdings, exhibitions,

• Author : Wu Hung
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2022-05-03
• ISBN : 9780691231013

A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art history Throughout Chinese history, dynastic time—the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties—has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chinese art, even though there has been little examination of this concept in discourse and practice until now. Chinese Art and Dynastic Time uncovers how the development of Chinese art was described in its original

• Author : Laurie Schneider Adams
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2018-03-09
• ISBN : 9780429974076

Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been 'read' in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work's perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its culture (time and place) and its maker (the artist) and is dependent on its media (what