A Basic History of Art

by H.W. Janson, Anthony F. Janson

This is an introductory survey of the history of Western art from the ancient to the modern world. Focusing on art before 1520, this edition organizes the material chronologically. It now incorporates considerable new material on the history of music and theatre, and updates scholarship on ancient art, examining which battle the Nike of Samothrace commemorates, and addressing the question of the debt of Roman painting to Greek art.

Genres: Art, History, Art History, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Reference

632 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 1981

About the author

Horst Waldemar Janson, who published as H. W. Janson, was a Russian-American scholar of art history best known for his History of Art, which was first published in 1962 and has sold more than two million copies in fifteen languages.

Reviews

[Feathzzz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read while in jail. Actual rating: 3

[Hssan Jan]

Albert Camus

[Sarina M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book ever!! I spent many hours happily content while meandering its pages :)