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Barron's AP Art History with CD-ROM (Barron's Ap Art History (Book & CD-Rom))  Barron?s brand-new AP Art History test prep manual is now available with an optional CD-ROM. The book offers test takers a review of art history, starting with the earliest Western civilizations and extending to art of the present day. Additional chapters focus on non-European art traditions in India, China, Japan, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific. Major periods are reviewed in separate chapters, each containing historical background, artistic innovation, major artists and movements, key works test takers should know, and relevant vocabulary. Each chapter has multiple-choice review questions and a practice essay with a model response. Every work of art discussed is illustrated in the text with an adjoining bulleted list of its characteristics. A diagnostic exam precedes the chapters surveying art history, and two full-length AP practice exams are presented at the end of the book with answer keys, diagnostic charts, answer explanations, and model essay responses. The text is profusely illustrated and a glossary of important terms is provided The optional CD-ROM presents two additional practice tests with answers and automatic scoring. In addition, the CD-ROM contains a flash card feature to test students? visual memories as they learn to identify 300 works of art.Author: John B. Nici M.A. Paperback: 600 pages Company: Barron's Educational Series (2008-01-01) ISBN: 0764194631 List Price: $29.99 Amazon Price: $15.49 Used Price: $15.49 The Expanding Discourse: Feminism And Art History (Icon Editions)  A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, representing some of the best feminist art-historical writing of the past decade. Chronologically arranged, the essays demonstrate the abundance, diversity, and main conceptual trends in recent feminist scholarship.Author: Norma Broude Paperback: 528 pages Company: Westview Press (1992-11-10) ISBN: 0064302075 List Price: $61.00 Amazon Price: $8.69 Used Price: $7.94 Art History Portable Edition, Book 1: Ancient Art (with MyArtKit Student Access Code Card) (3rd Edition) (Bk. 1)  Art History Portable Edition by Marilyn Stokstad offers exactly the same content as Art History, Third Edition but in smaller individual booklets for maximum student portability. The combined six segment set consists of four booklets that correspond to major periods in Western art and two that cover global art. Each book is available individually, making them ideal for courses focused on individual periods.
Book 1: Art History: Ancient Art can be used for such courses as:
Book 1: Art History: Ancient Art Book 2: Art History: Medieval Art Book 3: Art History: A View of the World, Part One: Asian, African, and Islamic Art and Art of the Americas Book 4: Art History: Fourteenth to Seventeenth Century Art Book 5: Art History: A View of the World, Part Two: Asian, African, and Oceanic Art and Art of the Americas Book 6: Art History: Eighteenth to Twenty-First Century Author: Marilyn Stokstad Paperback: 304 pages Company: Prentice Hall (2008-05-03) ISBN: 0205667260 List Price: $68.00 Amazon Price: $30.00 Used Price: $27.99 The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Oxford History of Art)  Here is a new edition of Donald Preziosi's masterful selection of the most influential and innovative writing on art history of the past two centuries. The book includes over thirty pieces by seminal thinkers and writers from Winckelmann, Kant, and Hegel to Foucault, Carol Duncan, and Mary Kelly on such subjects as aesthetics and anthropology, postmodern automatons, semiotics and iconography, performative acts, the museum as ritual, digital art, and many others. Each of the book's eight thematic sections offers an introduction providing background information, further reading, and critical commentary on the issues at stake. This edition has been updated and expanded to include sixteen new selections by key figures from Giorgio Vasari to Walter Benjamin and Satya Mohanty, a new concluding essay from Donald Preziosi on the tasks of the art historian today, and an entirely new section on Globalization and Its Discontents. For students and teachers, artists and historians, and anyone interested in the evolution and purpose of art history, this anthology offers many fascinating insights.Paperback: 624 pages Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2009-04-15) ISBN: 0199229848 List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $17.26 Used Price: $22.42 Art History For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback))  Art history is more than just a collection of dates and foreign-sounding names, obscure movements and arcane isms. Every age, for the last 50,000 years has left its unique imprint on the world, and from the first cave paintings to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, from the Byzantine mosaics of the Hagia Sophia, to the graffiti-inspired paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat, art history tells the story of our evolving notions of who and what we are and our place in the universe. Whether you?re an art enthusiast who?d like to know more about the history behind your favorite works and artists, or somebody who couldn?t tell a Titian and a De Kooning?but would like to?Art History For Dummies is for you. It takes you on a tour of thirty millennia of artistic expression, covering the artistic movements, major artists, and indispensable masterworks, and the world events and cultural trends that helped spawn them. With the help of stunning black-and-white photos throughout, and a sixteen-page gallery of color images, it covers:
Art History For Dummies is an unbeatable reference for anyone who wants to understand art in its historical context. Art History, Revised Second Edition, Volume II  For two-semester courses in Art History, Global Art History, and for Introductory Art courses taught from a historical perspective. Renowned for its authorship, scholarship and pedagogy, Art History has quickly become the gold standard of introductions to the history of art. Engaging and accessible, Stokstad's Art History gives students rich cultural and social contexts for art, along with eloquent explanations of art's formal qualities and particular terminology. Presenting a broad view of art through the centuries, it introduces beginning students to the works of all artists in all media in a positive and sympathetic manner. Art History is the most comprehensive, accessible, and magnificently illustrated work of its kind.Author: Marilyn Stokstad Paperback: 672 pages Student Edition Company: Prentice Hall (2005-07-06) ISBN: 013145529X List Price: $107.40 Amazon Price: $30.00 Used Price: $4.49 Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany  Author: Norma Broude, Mary Garrard Paperback: 368 pages Company: Westview (1982-08-10) ISBN: 0064301176 List Price: $49.00 Amazon Price: $23.88 Used Price: $2.49 Art History, Volume 2 (3rd Edition)  In tune with today's readers?rich but never effete?this is the art history book of choice for a new generation. Presenting a broad view of art from the early Renaissance in Europe through the Avant Garde since 1945, it sympathetically and positively introduces the works of all artists. This includes women, artists of color, and the arts of other continents and regions, as well as those of Western Europe and the United States. The new edition contains even more full-color reproductions, larger images, redrawn maps and timelines, and new photographs and higher quality images. Balancing both the traditions of art history and new trends of the present, Art History is the most comprehensive, accessible, and magnificently illustrated work of its kind. Broad in scope and depth, this beautifully illustrated work features art from the following time periods and places: Renaissance art; Baroque art; art of the Pacific cultures; the rise of modern art; and the international Avant-Garde since 1945. An excellent reference work and beautiful edition for any visual artist.Author: Marilyn Stokstad Paperback: 736 pages Company: Prentice Hall (2007-02-19) ISBN: 013199140X List Price: $129.00 Amazon Price: $85.00 Used Price: $64.00 Art History, Vol. 1, 3rd Edition  In tune with today's readers?rich but never effete?this is the art history book of choice for a new generation. Presenting a broad view of art from prehistory through the Gothic Age, it sympathetically and positively introduces the works of all artists. This includes women, artists of color, and the arts of other continents and regions, as well as those of Western Europe and the United States. The new edition contains even more full-color reproductions, larger images, redrawn maps and timelines, and new photographs and higher quality images. Balancing both the traditions of art history and new trends of the present, Art History is the most comprehensive, accessible, and magnificently illustrated work of its kind. Broad in scope and depth, this beautifully illustrated work features art from the following time periods and places: prehistory; art of the ancients (Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, Greece, Etruscan, and Roman); early Christian, Jewish, and Byzantine art; Islamic art; India before 1100; Chinese art before 1280; Japanese art before 1392; art of the Americas before 1300; the art of ancient Africa; early Medieval European art; Romanesque art, and Gothic art. An excellent reference work and beautiful edition for any visual artist.Author: Marilyn Stokstad Paperback: 688 pages Company: Prentice Hall (2007-02-17) ISBN: 0131743201 List Price: $129.00 Amazon Price: $79.99 Used Price: $71.99 Art History: A View of the West, Combined (3rd Edition) (MyArtKit Series)  Art History presents a broad view of art from prehistory through the Gothic Age, it sympathetically and positively introduces the works of all artists. This includes women, artists of color, and the arts of other continents and regions, as well as those of Western Europe and the United States. Broad in scope and depth, this beautifully illustrated work features art from the following time periods and places: prehistoric art in Europe; ancient art of the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and Greece; Roman and Etruscan art; Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine art; Islamic art; medieval art in Europe; Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance art; Baroque art; the rise of modern art; and the international Avant-Garde since 1945.
Marilyn Stokstad has been introducing the history of art to students and to the public for more than forty years, nurturing an educated, enthusiastic audience for the arts. She firmly believes that everyone can and should enjoy their introduction to art history. Only then will they learn to appreciate art as the most tangible creation of the human imagination.
Author: Marilyn Stokstad Hardcover: 1024 pages Company: Prentice Hall (2007-05-03) ISBN: 0132250675 List Price: $141.33 Amazon Price: $95.90 Used Price: $90.00 |