Overview

ART HISTORY provides students with the most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey text on the market.  These hallmarks make ART HISTORYthe choice for instructors who seek to actively engage their students in the study of art.    This new edition of ART HISTORY is the result of a happy and productive collaboration between two scholar-teachers (Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren) who share a common vision that survey courses on the history of art should be filled with as much enjoyment as erudition, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts.    Like its predecessors, this new edition seeks to balance formal and iconographic analysis with contextual art history in order to craft interpretations that will engage a diverse student population.  Throughout the text, the visual arts are treated as part of a larger world, in which geography, politics, religion, economics, philosophy, social life, and the other fine arts are related components of a vibrant and cultural landscape.   Art History Portable Edition offers exactly the same content as Art History, Fourth Edition but in smaller individual booklets for maximum student portability.  The combined six segment set consists of four booklets that correspond to major periods in Western art and two that cover global art.  Each book is available individually, making them ideal for courses focused on individual periods.

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Author:   Marilyn Stokstad ,  Michael W. Cothren
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   4th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.714kg
ISBN:  

9780205790920

ISBN 10:   0205790925
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   15 July 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

BRIEF CONTENTS   CONTENTS vii   Chapter 7 JEWISH, EARLY CHRISTIAN, AND BYZANTINE ART 217 Chapter 8 ISLAMIC ART 261   Chapter 14 EARLY MEDIEVAL ART IN EUROPE 423 Chapter 15 ROMANESQUE ART 453 Chapter 16 GOTHIC ART OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES 491 Chapter 17 FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE 529   CONTEMPORARY WORLD MAP GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY CREDITS INDEX   DETAILED CONTENTS   CONTENTS vii   CHAPTER 7 JEWISH, EARLY CHRISTIAN, AND BYZANTINE ART 217 JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND MUSLIMS 218 Early Jewish Art 218 Early Christian Art 222 IMPERIAL CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE AND ART 226 Architecture 226 Sculpture 229 Ravenna 230 EARLY BYZANTINE ART 233 The Golden Age of Justinian 233 Objects of Veneration and Devotion 242 Icons and Iconoclasm 244 MIDDLE BYZANTINE ART 246 Architecture and Mosaics 247 Objects of Veneration and Devotion 252 LATE BYZANTINE ART 254 Constantinople: The Chora Church 254 Moscow: Rublyov 259 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS Narrative and Iconic 224 The Life of Jesus 231 Naming Christian Churches: Designation + Dedication + Location 239 Scroll and Codex 243 Iconoclasm 246 THE OBJECT SPEAKS The Funerary Chapel of Theodore Metochites 256 A CLOSER LOOK The Mosaic Floor of the Beth Alpha Synagogue 221 ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE Longitudinal-Plan and Central-Plan Churches 228 Pendentives and Squinches 236 RECOVERING THE PAST Dura-Europos 223   CHAPTER 8 ISLAMIC ART 261 ISLAM AND EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY 262 ART AND ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 265 Early Architecture 265 THE LATER PERIOD 270 Architecture of the Mediterranean 271 Architecture of the East 275 Portable Arts 276 The Arts of the Book 279 Manuscript Painting 280 ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE THREE EMPIRES 282 The Ottoman Empire 282 The Safavid Dynasty 285 Mughal Dynasty 288 THE MODERN ERA 289 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS The Five Pillars of Islam 267 THE OBJECT SPEAKS The Great Mosque of Cordoba 268 A CLOSER LOOK A Mamluk Glass Oil Lamp 273 ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE Arches 271 TECHNIQUE Ornament 264 Carpet Making 286   CHAPTER 14 EARLY MEDIEVAL ART IN EUROPE 423 THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES 424 THE ART OF THE “BARBARIANS” IN EUROPE 425 The Merovingians 425 The Norse 427 The Celts and Anglo-Saxons in Britain 427 THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ART OF THE BRITISH ISLES 428 Illustrated Books 429 MOZARABIC ART IN SPAIN 433 Beatus Manuscripts 433 THE VIKING ERA 435 The Oseberg Ship 435 Picture Stones at Jelling 436 Timber Architecture 436 THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE 438 Carolingian Architecture 438 Illustrated Books 442 Carolingian Metalwork 445 OTTONIAN EUROPE 446 Ottonian Architecture 446 Ottonian Sculpture 448 Illustrated Books 450 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS Defining the Middle Ages 425 The Medieval Scriptorium 432 THE OBJECT SPEAKS The Lindisfarne Gospels 430 A CLOSER LOOK Psalm 23 in the Utrecht Psalter 445 RECOVERING THE PAST Sutton Hoo 429   CHAPTER 15 ROMANESQUE ART 453 EUROPE IN THE ROMANESQUE PERIOD 454 Political and Economic Life 454 The Church 454 ROMANESQUE ART 455 ARCHITECTURE 456 “First Romanesque” 457 “Pilgrimage Churches” 457 Cluny 460 The Cistercians 463 Regional Styles in Romanesque Architecture 464 Secular Architecture: Dover Castle, England 472 ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTURE 473 Wiligelmo at the Cathedral of Modena 474 The Priory Church of Saint-Pierre at Moissac 474 The Church of Saint-Lazare at Autun 477 SCULPTURE IN WOOD AND BRONZE 480 Christ on the Cross (Majestat Batlló) 480 Mary as the Throne of Wisdom 480 Tomb of Rudolf of Swabia 481 Reiner of Huy 482 TEXTILES AND BOOKS 482 Chronicling History 483 Sacred Books 486 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS The Pilgrim’s Journey 458 Relics and Reliquaries 462 St. Bernard and Theophilus: The Monastic Controversy over the Visual Arts 464 The Paintings of San Climent in Taull: Mozarabic Meets Byzantine 468 Hildegard of Bingen 487 THE OBJECT SPEAKS The Bayeux Embroidery 484 A CLOSER LOOK The Last Judgment Tympanum at Autun 478 ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE The Romanesque Church Portal 473   CHAPTER 16 GOTHIC ART OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES 491 THE EMERGENCE OF THE GOTHIC STYLE 492 The Rise of Urban and Intellectual Life 492 The Age of Cathedrals 493 GOTHIC ART IN FRANCE 493 The Birth of Gothic at the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis 494 Gothic Cathedrals 496 Art in the Age of St. Louis 507 GOTHIC ART IN ENGLAND 512 Manuscript Illumination 512 Architecture 515 GOTHIC ART IN GERMANY AND THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE 517 Architecture 518 Sculpture 520 GOTHIC ART IN ITALY 522 Sculpture: The Pisano Family 522 Painting 525 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS Abbot Suger on the Value of Art in Monasteries 493 Master Builders 502 Villard de Honnecourt 508 THE OBJECT SPEAKS The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris 510 A CLOSER LOOK The Opening of Psalm 1 in the Windmill Psalter 514 ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE Rib Vaulting 497 The Gothic Church 499 TECHNIQUE Stained-Glass Windows 496 RECOVERING THE PAST The Church of St. Francis at Assisi 523   CHAPTER 17 FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE 529 FOURTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE 530 ITALY 531 Florentine Architecture and Metalwork 532 Florentine Painting 532 Sienese Painting 539 FRANCE 547 Manuscript Illumination 547 Metalwork and Ivory 549 ENGLAND 552 Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum 552 Architecture 554 THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE 554 Mysticism and Suffering 554 The Supremacy of Prague 555 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS A New Spirit in Fourteenth-Century Literature 531 The Black Death 546 THE OBJECT SPEAKS An Ivory Chest with Scenes of Romance 550 A CLOSER LOOK The Hours of Jeanne d’Évreux 548 TECHNIQUE Buon Fresco 537 Cennino Cennini on Panel Painting 542   CONTEMPORARY WORLD MAP GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY CREDITS INDEX

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Marilyn Stokstad, teacher, art historian, and museum curator, has been a leader in her field for decades and has served as president of the College Art Association and the International Center of Medieval Art.  In 2002, she was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the National Women’s Caucus for Art.  In 1997, she was awarded the Governor’s Arts Award as Kansas Art Educator of the Year and an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters by Carleton College.  She is Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.  She has also served in various leadership capacities at the University’s Spencer Museum of Art and is Consultative Curator of Medieval Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri   Michael W. Cothren is Scheuer Family Professor of Humanities at Swarthmore College, where he has also served as Art Department Chair, Coordinator of Medieval Studies, and Divisional Chair of the Humanities.  Since arriving at Swarthmore in 1978, he has taught specialized courses on Medieval, Roman, and Islamic art and architecture, as well as seminars on visual narrative and on theory and method, but he particularly enjoys teaching the survey to Swarthmore beginners.  His research and publications focus on French Gothic art and architecture, most recently in a book on the stained glass of Beauvais Cathedral entitled Picturing the Celestial City.  Michael is a consultative curator at the Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. He has served on the board of the International Center of Medieval Art and as President both of the American Committee of the International Corpus Vitrearum and of his local school board. When not teaching, writing, or pursuing art historical research, you can finding him hiking in the red rocks around Sedona, Arizona.

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