Art Across Time [with CD-ROM]

by Laurie Schneider Adams

Art across Time seeks to inspire students in their study of art through a combination of large-scale reproductions, extensive use of color photographs, and effective incorporation of contextual material. Large format illustrations, 80 per cent in color, allow students to appreciate delicacies of technique and detail that are lost in smaller or black and white representations. Similarly, the writing emphasizes the motivations and environment of the artists to give students a sense of the intent or purpose of work. The arts of cultures beyond the West are presented thematically and at points of cross-cultural contact - Japan and the Impressionists, and Africa and the European Avant-Garde - in Windows on the World sections. In all, Art across Time, presents the history of art as a dynamic narrative grounded in scholarship, a narrative that is a dialogue between modern viewers and the past.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Art History

1024 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1998

Reviews

[Phillias · Rating 4 out of 5]

Western art only. Other than that overwhelmingly empirical, voluminous, and deep. Beautiful.

[Fiona Montgomery]

It’s dated. I would hate taking notes on thousands of these waxy types of paper. I think it doesn’t offer anything that any other art textbook would.

I did like the capitalization of important context words and the timelines at the end of each chapter to put what was learned in perspective. I like more though when each piece is looked at in particular.

[Babs Wheelden · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my Survey of Art History text- just finished teaching baroque.

[Jaime McEnnan · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent resource/survey of art. Hits all of the main points needed. If you need a solid arts textbook, this is it.