Kleiner & Mamiya, Gardner's Art through the Ages, Western Perspective, 16th edition, Vol. 2, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,

Experience the wonders of human creativity in GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, VOLUME II, 16th Edition! A grand tour of the most celebrated works in Western Civilization, from the Stone Age to the modern era, this introductory text has been a classroom favorite for 85 years. Every chapter includes rich and compelling discussions of pivotal art works, periods and geographies in art history, as well as new artists and art forms. The bold illustrations on the pages look almost as good as the real thing, especially when you use the unique Scale feature to imagine a work's stature from the artist's point of view. And to keep your course success in focus, the text offers Quick Review Captions and Big Picture Overviews, as well as an optional ebook that enables you to zoom in on fine details of paintings, sculptures, and priceless art forms of all kinds. "I take great pleasure in introducing the extensively revised and expanded 16th edition of 'Gardner's Art through the Ages : The Western Perspective', which, like the 15th edition, is a hybrid art history textbook -- the first, and still the only, introductory survey of the history of art of its kind. When Helen Gardner published the first edition of 'Art through the Ages' in 1926, she could not have imagined that nearly a century later, instructors all over the world would still be using her textbook in their classrooms. In this new edition, in addition to revising the text of every chapter to incorporate the latest research and methodological developments and dividing the former chapter on European and American art from 1900 to 1945 into two chapters, I have added several important features while retaining the basic format and scope of the previous edition. Once again, the hybrid Gardner boasts roughly 1,600 photographs, plans, and drawings, nearly all in color and reproduced according to the highest standards of clarity and color fidelity. Once again, scales accompany the photograph of every painting, statue, or other artwork discussed -- another innovative feature of the Gardner text. The scales provide students with a quick and effective way to visualize how big or small a given artwork is and its relative size compared with other objects in the same chapter and throughout the book. Also retained in this edition are the Quick-Review Captions, brief synopses of the most significant aspects of each artwork or building illustrated. Each chapter also again ends with the highly popular full-page feature called 'The Big Picture', which sets forth in bullet-point format the most important characteristics of each period or artistic movement discussed in the chapter. Feature boxes once again appear throughout the book and fall under nine broad categories, one of which is new to the 16th edition : Architectural Basics ; Materials and Techniques ; Religion and Mythology ; Art and Society ; Written Sources ; Artists on Art ; The Patron's Voice ; Problems and Solutions ; and, new to the 16th edition, A Second Opinion, in which an individual work of art that is the subject of current debate or has recently been reinterpreted is discussed. These essays underscore for students that the history of art and architecture is not a static discipline and that scholars are constantly questioning and rethinking traditional interpretations of paintings, sculptures and buildings."--adapted from Preface, pages xi-xii 70391_Text_SE_part1 70391_fm_rev02_i-xvi 70391_Before 1300_rev01_xvii-xxix 30702_intro_rev03_xxxii-013 30702_ch14_rev04_418-441 30702_ch20_rev03_566-591 30702_ch21_rev03_592-633 30702_ch22_rev06_634-683 30702_ch23_rev03_684-709 30702_ch24_rev03_710-737 30702_ch25_rev04_738-769 70391_Text_SE_part2 30702_ch26_rev04_770-799 30702_ch27_rev03_800-847 30702_ch28_rev04_848-885 30702_ch29_rev03_886-931 30702_ch30_rev03_932–955 30702_ch31_rev06_956-1001 30702_ch32_rev04_1002-1041 70391_notes_rev01_1042-1044 70391_glo_rev02_1045-1055 70391_bib_rev02_1056-1067 70391_credits_rev02_1068-1072 70391_index_rev02_1073-1086