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Author Gardner, Helen, -1946.

Title Gardner's art through the ages.

Imprint Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt College Publishers, c2001.

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 GDL Pacific Park Library Non-Fiction    709 GAR 2001  v.1    Available
Edition 11th ed. / Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya, Richard G. Tansey.
Description 2 v. (xxxi, 1198 p.) : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [1164]-1177) and index.
Contents v. 1. The subjects of vocabulary of art history ; The birth of art: Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age ; The rise of civilization: the art of the ancient Near East ; Pharaohs and the afterlife: the art of ancient Egypt ; Minos and the heroes of Homer: the art of the prehistoric Aegean ; Gods, heroes, and athletes: the art of ancient Greece ; Paths to enlightenment: the ancient art of south and Southeast Asia ; Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism: the art of early China and Korea ; Sacred statues and secular scrolls: the art of early Japan ; Italy before the Romans: the art of the Etruscans ; From seven hills to three continents: the art of ancient Rome ; Pagans, Christians, and Jews: the art of late antiquity ; Rome in the East: the art of Byzantium ; Muhammad and the Muslims: Islamic art ; From Alaska to the Andes: the arts of ancient America ; South of the Sahara: early African art ; Europe after the fall of Rome: early medieval art in the west ; The age of pilgrims and crusaders: Romanesque art ; The age of the great cathedrals: Gothic art -- v. 2. From Gothic to Renaissance: the fourteenth century in Italy ; Of piety, passion, and politics: fifteenth-century Italian art ; Humanism and the allure of antiquity: fifteenth-century Italian art ; Beauty, science, and spirit in Italian art: the high Renaissance and mannerism ; The age of Reformation: sixteenth-century art in northern Europe and Spain ; Of popes, peasants, monarchs, and merchants: baroque and rococo art ; Religious change and colonial rule: the later art of south and southeast Asia ; Incursion, restoration, and transformation: the art of later China and Korea ; From the Shoguns to the present: the art of Later Japan ; The enlightenment and its legacy: neoclassicism through the mid-nineteenth century -- The rise of modernism: the later nineteenth century ; Before and after the Conquistadors: native arts of the Americas after 1000 ; Elders, "big men," chiefs and kings: the arts of Oceania ; Exploration, colonization, and independence: later African art ; The triumph of modernist art: the early twentieth century ; The emergence of postmodernism: the later twentieth century.
Subject Art -- History.
Added Author Kleiner, Fred S.
Mamiya, Christin J.
Tansey, Richard G.
Added Title Art through the ages
ISBN 0155070851 (v. 1)
9780155070851 (v. 1)
015507086X (v. 2)
9780155070868 (v. 2)

 
    
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