Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Concise Global History

by Fred S. Kleiner

GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A CONCISE GLOBAL HISTORY, 4th Edition has been written from the ground up to create a one-semester, student-friendly introduction to art history while retaining the impeccable reliability and scholarship of GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES. This beautifully illustrated fourth edition has been updated to make it easier than ever for your students to master the material. Gardner's has built its stellar reputation on the inclusion of the most significant images and monuments; discussions of these images in their full historical and cultural contexts; reproductions of unsurpassed quality; scholarship that is up-to-date and deep; the consistent voice of a single storyteller; reliability; and more online resources for students and instructors than any other art survey text.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, History

656 pages, Paperback

First published February 22, 2006

Reviews

[Bahman Bahman · Rating 2 out of 5]

كتاب ترجمه‌ي نسخه‌ي فشرده‌ي كتاب است. اما به دليل اهميت آشنا شدنِ خوانندگان امروزي با جزئياتي بيش‌تر درباره‌ى هنر مدرن، سه فصل 13 و 14 و 15 از نسخه‌ي مفصل ترجمه شده است. ضميمه‌ى كتاب جدول زمانىِ تمام رنگيِ تاريخ هنر جهان در قطع بزرگ است كه در آن فهرست مختصرى از مهم‏ترين تحولات تاريخىِ هنر هر دوره‌ي خاص همراه با تصويري از آثار ممتاز آن دوره عرضه شده است. اين جدول زمانى چهار ستون افقى اصلى دارد كه به اروپا، آمريكا (شمالى و جنوبى)، آسيا و آفريقا مربوط مى‏شود، و 34 ستون عمودى كه مربوط به دوره‏ هاى زمانى پياپى از سى‏ هزار سال پيش‏ ازميلاد تا زمان ماست.

[Terri Karp · Rating 3 out of 5]

Airbnb book

[Kailah · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can’t decide if I hate this book or if I loathe it. My professor required this for an ‘Art Appreciation’ class and I really want to set it on fire. This did not inspire appreciation for art and the extreme detail made it feel more like ‘Art Architecture through the Ages.’ I inherently understand that architecture plays a role in art history but terminology and details that didn’t really pertain to art were so overused that I couldn’t understand half this text. I felt that I should have taken an architecture course prior to reading this to fully appreciate its value. Compared to the wonderful work of EH Gombrich in his ‘History of Art’ book, Garners textbook was a huge fail for me.

[Mehran,A]

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