Gardner's art through the ages : a global history /

Experience the wonders of human creativity in GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY, 16th Edition. A grand tour of the world's most celebrated works from the Stone Age to the modern era, this introductory text has been a classroom favorite for 85 years. Every chapter includes ri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kleiner, Fred S. (Author)
Other Authors: Gardner, Helen, 1878-1946
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Cengage Learning, [2020].
Edition:Sixteenth edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Volume I. What is art history?
  • Art in the Stone Age
  • Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia
  • Egypt from Narmer to Cleopatra
  • The prehistoric Aegean
  • Ancient Greece
  • The Etruscans
  • The Roman Empire
  • Late antiquity
  • Byzantium
  • The Islamic world
  • Early medieval Europe
  • Romanesque Europe
  • Gothic Europe north of the Alps
  • Late medieval Italy
  • South and Southeast Asia before 1200
  • China and Korea to 1279
  • Japan before 1333
  • Native American cultures before 1300
  • Africa before 1800
  • Volume II. What is art history?
  • Late medieval Italy
  • Late medieval and early Renaissance Northern Europe
  • The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy
  • Renaissance and mannerism in Cinquecento Italy
  • High Renaissance and mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain
  • The baroque in Italy and Spain
  • The baroque in Northern Europe
  • Rococo to neoclassicism: the 18th century in Europe and America
  • Romanticism, realism, photography: Europe and America, 1800 to 1870
  • Impressionism, post-impressionism, symbolism: Europe and America, 1870-1900
  • Modernism in Europe, 1900 to 1945
  • Modernism in the United States and Mexico, 1900 to 1945
  • Modernism and postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980
  • Contemporary art worldwide
  • South and Southeast Asia, 1200 to 1980
  • China and Korea, 1279 to 1980
  • Japan, 1333 to 1980
  • Native American cultures, 1300 to 1980
  • Oceania before 1980
  • Africa, 1800 to 1980.