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Art Across Time by
Art across Time combines sound scholarship, lavish visuals, and a lively narrative to provide students with a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging introduction to Art History. Popular with majors and non-majors alike, the text offers readers more than a chronology of art by placing each work within the time-and-place context within which it was created. Encountering and interpreting a work of art in context offers the reader the richest possible experience of it. Large scale and high quality visual reproductions of artworks are often presented from multiple perspectives to enhance visual appeal and allow students to view details and elements of composition with greater ease. A thoughtful pedagogical approach helps students consider what they are viewing.
Call Number: N5300 .A3 2011bISBN: 0073379239Publication Date: 2010-02-12
Janson's History of Art by
For courses in the History of Art. Rewritten and reorganized, this new edition weaves together the most recent scholarship, the most current thinking in art history, and the most innovative online supplements, including digital art library. Experience the new Janson and re-experience the history of art. Long established as the classic and seminal introduction to art of the Western world, the Eighth Edition of Janson's History of Art is groundbreaking. When Harry Abrams first published the History of Art in 1962, John F. Kennedy occupied the White House, and Andy Warhol was an emerging artist. Janson offered his readers a strong focus on Western art, an important consideration of technique and style, and a clear point of view. The History of Art, said Janson, was not just a stringing together of historically significant objects, but the writing of a story about their interconnections, a history of styles and of stylistic change. Janson's text focused on the visual and technical characteristics of the objects he discussed, often in extraordinarily eloquent language. Janson's History of Art helped to establish the canon of art history for many generations of scholars. The new Eighth Edition, although revised to remain current with new discoveries and scholarship, continues to follow Janson's lead in important ways: It is limited to the Western tradition, with a chapter on Islamic art and its relationship to Western art. It keeps the focus of the discussion on the object, its manufacture, and its visual character. It considers the contribution of the artist as an important part of the analysis. This edition maintains an organization along the lines established by Janson, with separate chapters on the Northern European Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance, the High Renaissance, and Baroque art, with stylistic divisions for key periods of the modern era. Also embedded in this edition is the narrative of how art has changed over time in the cultures that Europe has claimed as its patrimony.
Call Number: N5300 .J3115 2011ISBN: 020568517XPublication Date: 2010-01-03
Books on Drawing
- The complete guide to anatomy for artists & illustrators: Drawing the human formBarber, Barrington
NC760 .B373 2017 - Basic perspective drawing : a visual approachMontague, John, 1944-
NC750 .M648 2012 - Classic human anatomy : the artist's guide to form, function, and movementWinslow, Valerie L.
NC760 .W56 2009 - Drawing mammalsLindstrand, Doug
QL715 .L57 2004 - Drawing the line : the how-to-draw bookBaldwin, Michael
NC710 .B34 2006 - Facial expressions : a visual reference for artistsSimon, Mark, 1964-
N7573.3 .S56 2005 - Rapid viz : a new method for the rapid visualization of ideasHanks, Kurt, 1947-
T359 .H36 2006 - The art of responsive drawingGoldstein, Nathan
NC740 .G6 2006 - The encyclopedia of pastel techniquesMartin, Judy (Frances Judy)
NC880 .M37 1992
Books on Design
- Design graphics : drawing techniques for design professionalsKoenig, Peter A.
NK2113.5 .K64 2006 - Drawing for designersPipes, Alan
TS171 .P574 2007 - Exploring the elements of designEvans, Poppy, 1949-
NC997 .E94 2008 - Information design workbook : graphic approaches, solutions, and inspiration + 30 case studiesBaer, Kim
NC997 .B24 2008 - Sketching user experience : getting the design right and the right designBuxton, William
TS171 .B89 2007 - The complete guide to illustration and design techniques and materialsDalley, Terence
NC960 .C714 1980b
Books on Painting
- Drawing and painting fantasy beasts : bring to life the creatures and monsters of other realmsWalker, Kev
N8217.F28 W35 2005 - The complete book of painting techniques : oils, watercolors, pastels, acrylics, collage, mixed mediaSalemme, Lucia A.
ND1500 .S22 1982 - Acrylic painting techniquesQuiller, Stephen
ND1535 .Q55 2002 - The materials of the artist and their use in painting, with notes on the techniques of the old mastersDoerner, Max, 1870-1939
ND1500 .D6213 1984 - The way of the brush : painting techniques of China and JapanBriessen, Fritz van
ND1040 .B69 1998 - Drawing & painting fantasy landscapes & cityscapes : create your own mythical cities, planets, and lost worldsAlexander, Rob
N8217.F28 A44 2006
Books on Performance Art
- Lucy OrtaPinto, Roberto
N6797.O78 P56 2003 - Radical gestures : feminism and performance art in North AmericaWark, Jayne, 1956-
N72.F45 W37 2006
Books on Photography
- 50 lighting setups for portrait photographers : easy-to-follow lighting designs and diagramsBegleiter, Steven
TR575 .B445 2008 - Langford's advanced photographyLangford, Michael John, 1933-
TR145 .L3182 2008 - Photo design : picture composition in black-and-white photographyMante, Harald
TR179 .M3513 - Photographic lightingChild, John
TR590 .C45 2008 - Photography : the art of compositionKrages, Bert P.
TR179 .K73 2005
Books on Print Media
- EtchingEdmondson, Leonard, 1916-
NE2130 .E35
Books on Sculpture
- Creating with plasterMeilach, Dona Z.
NB1190 .M4 - Direct metal sculpture : creative techniques and appreciationMeilach, Dona Z.
NB1220 .M4 - Images in clay sculpture : historical and contemporary techniquesSpeight, Charlotte F., 1919-
NK4235 .S6 1983 - The sculpture reference illustrated : contemporary techniques, terms, tools, materials, and sculptureWilliams, Arthur
NB1170 .W55 2005
Audiobooks
Lost Painting, The : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by ISBN: 9780739345801Publication Date: 2005
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Reference Books
- Composing picturesGraham, Donald W.
N7430 .G67 - Human anatomy for artists : the elements of formGoldfinger, Eliot.
NC760 .G67 1991 - Die Gestalt des Tieres : eine Zeichenschule mit methodishen, anatomishen und künstlerischen GrundlagenBammes, Gottfried
NC780 .B38 - Die Gestalt des Menschen : Lehr- und Handbuch der KünstleranatomieBammes, Gottfried
NC765 .B19 1997 - Atlas of human anatomyNetter, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1906-1991
QM25 .N46 2011
Books on Art Education
- Art and creative development for young childrenSchirrmacher, Robert, 1946-
LB1139.5.A78 S35 2006 - Art for life : authentic instruction in artAnderson, Tom, 1949-
N345 .A63 2005 - Hands-on art activities for the elementary classroom : seasonal, holiday, and design activities for grades K-5Cataldo, Jude, 1951-
LB1592 .C37 2006 - Mind in art : cognitive foundations in art educationDorn, Charles M.
N87 .D67 1999
Books on Art History
- Gardner's art through the ages : a concise historyGardner, Helen, d. 1946
N5300 .G25 2006 -text - Locating Renaissance artRichardson, Carol M., 1969-
N6754 .L53 2007 - The history of art : painting from Giotto to the present dayHodge, A. N.
ND50 .H62 2007
Books on Art Therapy
- Art therapy exercises : inspirational and practical ideas to stimulate the imaginationSilverstone, Liesl
RC489 .A7 S547 2009
eBooks
- A History of Greek ArtFrank Bigelow Tarbell
- An introduction to nineteenth century artFacos, Michelle
- Raman Spectroscopy in Archaeology and Art HistoryHowell G. M. Edwards and John M. Chalmers
