History of Art

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history of art
For three decades, Janson's History of Art has been the book against which all other art history surveys have been measured. Its eloquent text and its matchless quality of illustration have introduced the vast world of Western art to several generations of students and have inspired millions of art lovers.
This revised and expanded Fourth Edition is more lavish, more comprehensive, and more accessible than ever before, with many new features added to its unexcelled text and format:
• A completely new design that encourages visual comparison of related works of art
• 557 magnificent color illustrations, now for the first time fully integrated with the text—with many full-page plates and scores of pictures that have never before appeared in History of Art
• 625 rich duotones and Une drawings, 42 of which are new to this edition
•A 31-page, four-color portfolio, Key Monuments in the History of Art, that features critical turning points in Western art
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history of art
For three decades, Janson's History of Art has been the book against which all other art history surveys have been measured. Its eloquent text and its matchless quality of illustration have introduced the vast world of Western art to several generations of students and have inspired millions of art lovers.
This revised and expanded Fourth Edition is more lavish, more comprehensive, and more accessible than ever before, with many new features added to its unexcelled text and format:
• A completely new design that encourages visual comparison of related works of art
• 557 magnificent color illustrations, now for the first time fully integrated with the text—with many full-page plates and scores of pictures that have never before appeared in History of Art
• 625 rich duotones and Une drawings, 42 of which are new to this edition
•A 31-page, four-color portfolio, Key Monuments in the History of Art, that features critical turning points in Western art
• Illustrations of major works in situ
•An updated text that throughout reflects the most current scholarship and critical thinking
• Reorganized sections on modem painting, sculpture, and architecture
• The addition of 28 new artists, including women and minority painters, sculptors, and photographers
• A revised and expanded Introduction, with a new section on key formal elements—line, color, light, composition, form, and space
• Sections on techniques and processes, such as tempera and fresco, oil painting, woodcuts, etchings, engravings, and lithographs
The intelligence and verve that have always characterized History of Art remain. The narrative of art history is told with majesty, balance, and wit—enlarging our capacity to understand and appreciate the works of art themselves, not merely to accumulate data about them. From cave paintings of the Old Stone Age to the latest video art, the connections, transitions, and comparisons between styles and cultures are explained. The story of art becomes an adventure, as History of Art follows the search for forms and techniques to satisfy the ageless human drive for self-expression. And the proximity of all the illustrations—color and black-and-white—to the discussion about them heightens the pleasure of personal discovery.
The Fourth Edition of History of Art is a book to pore over, delight in, and return to for years to come.
1,182 illustrations, including 557 in full color; 19 maps; 4 illustrated time charts
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
H. W. Janson was Professor of Fine Arts at New York University and its graduate center. The Institute of Fine Arts. For more than twenty-five years he served as Chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Washington Square College of New York University. Two times a Guggenheim Fellow, he was also honored by twice receiving the highest award of the CoUege Art Association for "the most distinguished work of art historical scholarship." In 1962-65 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Art Bulletin, published by the CoUege Art Association, and served that organization as President in 1970-72. Together with his wife, Dora Jane, whose thinking helped to shape the first edition of History of Art, Professor Janson made extraordinary contributions to a popular understanding of art, beginning with The Story of Painting and Picture History of Painting in the early 1950s. Art historian, teacher, and museum curator Anthony F. Janson worked closely with him to revise the highly successful A Basic History of Art. He has been responsible for revising History of Art since his father's death in 1982.
On the jacket:
(front) Raphael. Galatea. 1513. Detail of a fresco in the Villa Famesina, Rome
(back) Elizabeth Murray. More Than You Know. 1983. Oil on ten canvases. The Edward R. Broida Trust. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Vissza