Art History
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Art History Details
ART HISTORY provides students with the most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey text on the market. These hallmarks make ART HISTORY the 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. Read more
Reviews
I was given a professors sample of this book. It is well written, contains a remarkable amount of color art images (on every page), and explains a full and complex history of art. I also think the idea of separating it into six books is a great idea. There is really too much information, I believe, to put into one book and expect a student to lug it all over school. If this was done with more books, I believe it could make college just a little more enjoyable...