Art Across Time Volume 1 W/ Aat CD-ROM

by Laurie Schneider Adams

Book Overview

From prehistory through the Fourteenth Century, volume one of Art across Time presents the most accessible survey of art history available. Unencumbered by global flashbacks and confusing concurrent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072462795
• ISBN13: 9780072462791
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.8"

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Study Guide, V1

I used this book in conjunction with my text book and it helped me to gain an even better understanding of Art. All of the exercises helped to strengthen my understanding of each chapter.This book helped me so much that I got an "A" for the semester in Art 114.

Art Across Time

The vastness of the world art subject is daunting but I believe that Laurie Schneider Adams in Art Across Time successfully covers the most crucial aspects including areas of non-western art. Such examples as Mughal Art and the Baroque or 19th Century Impressionism and Japanese Prints or Gauguin and Oceania in Post Impressionism are invaluable for their strategic placing and representation of non-western models. There are also highlighted tables throughout the book about contextual history as is the one on Scientific Experiment in the Enlightenment. Furthermore, the introductory chapter contains key issues about art as well as stylistic terminology, and art historical methodologies which are a necessary part of art history for beginners. The plates are beautiful and are accompanied at times with plans and maps that are useful aids in the teaching process. The Art Across Time, volume one and two, are extremely important to those college instructors teaching Survey in two semesters, but the volumes are also useful separately. Schneider Adams writes in a flowing discourse that is facile for the undergraduate to understand and explains difficult ideas in precise, well organized formats that are easily assimilated. To be sure there are tiny flaws in Schneider-Adams' Art Across Time, but the book comes as close to perfection as one can get given the magnitude of this area. Finally, the publisher is extremely helpful to instructors providing such teaching aids as cds, slides and the images on the web for wireless environment classroom teaching.