Janson's Basic History of Western Art

A concise introduction to the Western tradition in art.   Janson’s Basic History of Art provides readers with a beautifully illustrated and masterfully concise introduction to the Western tradition of art history. The text centers discussions around the object, its manufacture, and its visual character. It considers the contribution of the artist as an important part of the analysis.   This edition creates a narrative of how art has changed over time in the cultures that Europe has claimed as its patrimony and that Americans have claimed through their connection to Europe. Janson’s Basic History of Western Art continues to maintain separate chapters on the Northern European Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance, and the High Renaissance, with stylistic divisions for key periods of the modern era.   The 9th edition brings some exciting changes. For the first time, Janson’s Basic History of Western Art comes with MyArtsLab, which provides students with an interactive learning experience. Also, the text incorporates new learning objectives, graphics, and maps throughout. In response to reviewer’s requests, this new edition expands the coverage of Islamic art into its own chapter.   MyArtsLab is an integral part of the Davies et al, program. Key learning applications include, Art 21 and Studio Technique videos, 360-degree architectural panoramas and simulations and Closer Look tours.   A better teaching and learning experience The teaching and learning experience with this program helps to: Personalize Learning– MyArtsLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program. It helps students prepare for class and instructor gauge individual and class performance. mprove Critical Thinking — “Points of Inquiry” and “Points of Reflection” coordinated with learning objectives help students think critically about what they have read. Engage Students— Updated images, MyArtsLab, and the clarity of the text provide a wonderful engaging student experience. Support Instructors — Instructor resources are available in one convenient location. Figures, videos, and teacher support materials create a dynamic, engaging course.   NOTE: MyArtsLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase the text with MyArtsLab , order the package ISBN:   0205925928 / 9780205925926 Janson's Basic History of Western Art Plus NEW MyArtsLab with eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of:    0205206565 / 9780205206568 NEW MyArtsLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card 0205242634 / 9780205242634 Janson's Basic History of Western Art    

Table of Contents:
In this Section: 1) Brief Table of Contents 2) Full Table of Contents     BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:   PART 1: THE ANCIENT WORLD Chapter 1. Prehistoric Art Chapter 2. Ancient Near Eastern Art Chapter 3. Egyptian Art Chapter 4. Aegean Art Chapter 5. Greek Art Chapter 6. Etruscan Art Chapter 7. Roman Art   PART 2: THE MIDDLE AGES Chapter 8. Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art Chapter 9. Islamic Art Chapter 10. Early Medieval Art Chapter 11. Romanesque Art Chapter 12. Gothic Art   PART 3: THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO: EARLY MODERN EUROPE Chapter 13. Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy Chapter 14. Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe Chapter 15. The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy Chapter 16. The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495—1520 Chapter 17. The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy Chapter 18. Renaissance and Reformation throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe Chapter 19. The Baroque in Italy and Spain Chapter 20. The Baroque in the Netherlands Chapter 21. The Baroque in France and England Chapter 22. The Rococo   PART 4: THE MODERN WORLD Chapter 23. Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750—1789 Chapter 24. Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789—1848 Chapter 25. The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848—1885 Chapter 26. Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880—1905 Chapter 27. Toward Abstraction: The Modernist Revolution, 1905—1914 Chapter 28. Art Between the Wars Chapter 29. Postwar to Postmodern, 1945—1980 Chapter 30. The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980   FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:     PART 1: THE ANCIENT WORLD   Chapter 1. Prehistoric Art           Paleolithic Art           Neolithic Art   Chapter 2. Ancient Near Eastern Art           Sumerian Art           Art of Akkad           Neo-Sumerian Revival           Babylonian Art           Assyrian Art           Late Babylonian Art           Persian Art   Chapter 3. Egyptian Art           Predynastic and Early Dynastic Art           The Old Kingdom: A Golden Age           The Middle Kingdom: Reasserting Tradition           The New Kingdom: Restored Glory           Akhenaten and the Amarna Style   Chapter 4. Aegean Art           Early Cycladic Art           Minoan Art           Mycenaean Art   Chapter 5. Greek Art           The emergence of Greek Art: The Geometric Style           The Orientalizing Style: Horizons Expand           Archaic Art: Art of the City-State           The Classical Age           The Age of Alexander and the Hellenistic Period   Chapter 6. Etruscan Art           Funerary Art           Architecture           Sculpture   Chapter 7. Roman Art           Early Rome and the Republic           The Early Empire           Art and Architecture in the Provinces           Domestic Art And Architecture in the Proviences     PART 2: THE MIDDLE AGES   Chapter 8. Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art           Jewish Art           Early Christian Art           Byzantine Art           Chapter 9. Islamic Art           The formation of Islamic Art           The Development of Islamic Style           Islamic Art and the Persian Inheritance           The Ottoman Empire   Chapter 10. Early Medieval Art           Anglo-Saxon Art           Hiberno-Saxon Art           Carolingian Art           Ottonian Art   Chapter 11. Romanesque Art           First Expressions of Romanesque Style           Mature Romanesque           Regional Variants of the Romanesque Style   Chapter 12. Gothic Art           Early Gothic Art in France           High Gothic Art in France           Rayonnant or Court Style           Late Gothic Art in France           The Spread of Gothic Art     PART 3: THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO: EARLY MODERN EUROPE   Chapter 13. Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy              The Cities and the Mendicant           New Directions in Tuscan Painting           Late Fourteen-Century Crises   Chapter 14. Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe              Courtly Art: The International Gothic           Urban Centers and the New Art           Regional Responses to the Early Netherlandish Style           Printing and the Graphic Arts   Chapter 15. The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy              The inspiration of Antiquity in Florence              Italian Art During the Era of the Medici, 1434094           The Renaissance Palace and its Furnishings, CA. 1440-90           The Renaissance Style Reverberates, 1450-1500   Chapter 16. The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495—1520              Leonardo and the Florentine High Renaissance           The High Renaissance in Rome           Venice and the High Rennaissance   Chapter 17. The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy              Late Renaissance Florence           Rome Refermed           Cities and Courts in Northern Italy and Venice             Chapter 18. Renaissance and Reformation throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe              France and Spain: Catholic Courts and Italian Influence           Central Europe: The Reformation and Art           Protestant Courts and Cities and New Forms of Art           The Netherlands: World Marketplace   Chapter 19. The Baroque in Italy and Spain              Painting in Italy           Architecture in Italy           Sculpture in Italy           Painting in Spain   Chapter 20. The Baroque in the Netherlands              Flanders           The Dutch Republic           The Market: Landscape, Still Life and Genre Painting   Chapter 21. The Baroque in France and England              France: The Style of Louis XIV           Baroque Architecture in England   Chapter 22. The Rococo           France: The Rise of the Rococo           Western European Rococo outside France           The Rococo in Central Europe     PART 4: THE MODERN WORLD Chapter 23. Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750—1789              Rome Toward 1760: The Front of Neoclassicism           Rome Toward 1960: Romanticism           Neoclassicism in Britain           Early Romanticism in Britain           Neoclassicism in France           Italian Neoclassicism Towards 1785   Chapter 24. Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789—1848              Painting           Sculpture           Romantic Revivals in Architecture   Chapter 25. The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848—1885              Realism in France           British Realism           Realism in America           Photography: A Mechanical Medium for Mass-produced Art           Architecture and the Industrial Revolution           Ferroviteous Structures: Train Sheds and Exhibition Palaces   Chapter 26. Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880—1905              Post-Impressionism           Symbolism           Art Nouveau and the Search for Modern Design           American Architecture: The Chicago School           Photography   Chapter 27. Toward Abstraction: The Modernist Revolution, 1905—1914              Fauvism           Cubism           The Impact of Fauvism and Cubism           Modernist Sculpture: Constantin Brancusi           American Art            Early Modern Architecture in Europe   Chapter 28. Art Between the Wars              Dada           Surrealism           Organic Sculpture           Creating Utopias           Art in America: Modernity, Spirituality, and Regionalism           Mexican Art: Seeking National Identity           The Eve of World War II   Chapter 29. Postwar to Postmodern, 1945—1980              Existentialism in New York: Abstract Expressionism           Rejecting Abstract Expressionism: American Art of the 1950s and1960s           Formalist Abstraction of the 1950s and 1960s           The Pluralist 1970s: Post-Minimalism           Art with a Social Agenda           Late Modernist Architecture   Chapter 30. The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980              Architecture           Poster-minimalism and Pluralism: Limitless Possibilities    

About the Author :
Penelope J. E. Davies is Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a scholar of Greek and Roman art and architecture as well as a field archaeologist. She is author of Death and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, winner of the Vasari Award.   Walter B. Denny is a Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In addition to exhibition catalogues, his publications include books on Ottoman Turkish carpets, textiles, and ceramics, and articles on miniature painting, architecture and architectural decoration.   Frima Fox Hofrichter is Professor and former Chair of the History of Art and Design department at Pratt Institute. She is author of Judith Leyster, A Dutch Artist in Holland’s Golden Age, which received CAA’s Millard Meiss Publication Fund Award.   Joseph Jacobs is an independent scholar, critic, and art historian of modern art in New York City. He was the curator of modern art at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, director of the Oklahoma City Art Museum, and curator of American art at The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey.   David L. Simon is Jetté Professor of Art at Colby College, where he received the Basset Teaching Award in 2005. Among his publications is the catalogue of Spanish and southern French Romanesque sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters.   Ann M. Roberts, Professor of Art at Lake Forest College has published essays, articles and reviews on both Northern and Italian Renaissance topics. Her research focuses on women in the Renaissance, and her most recent publication is entitled Dominican Women and Renaissance Art:The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa.   H. W. Janson was a legendary name in art history. During his long career as a teacher and scholar, he helped define the discipline through his impressive books and other publications.   Anthony F. Janson forged a distinguished career as a professor, scholar, museum professional and writer. From the time of his father’s death in 1982 until 2004, he authored History of Art.

Review :
“The text presents the material in a very logical way, and the author presents material that can be difficult in a very engaging way. The illustrations are well-chosen, and the text is unlike others that are currently available.”     -  Alyson Gill, Arkansas State University   “Thorough, clear, and beautiful image quality – gold standard of survey texts.”     - Kathryn Keller, The Art Institute of New York City   “A good, affordable, overview text for a basic art history survey course.”     - Cory Peeke, Eastern Oregon University   “A strong text with great illustrations. Straight and to the point.”     - Donald Royal,Warner University   “It is well-written, comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and very accessible to community college students.”     -  Elizabeth Tebow, Northern Virginia Community College