The seventh edition deepens its discussions on social conditions that have affected the production and reception of modern and contemporary art. »--

A comprehensive, illustrated survey of Western art, from Stone Age to present day, placing individual masterworks of painting, sculpture, and architecture within their respective civilizations.

A comprehensive, illustrated survey of Western art, from Stone Age to present day, placing individual masterworks of painting, sculpture, and architecture within their respective civilizations.

This book deals with perhaps the most influential tradition of all – art history – examining how the relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty years ...

This book deals with perhaps the most influential tradition of all – art history – examining how the relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty years ...

Part of a series, which describes the social, political, religious and intellectual climate in which the visual arts developed in a particular period this book introduces Baroque art and architecture which flourished in Western Europe ...

But their boundless sylistic explorations, like the Lindisfarne Gospels, are not the only flowering of early medieval art, which encompasses also the work of master craftsmen such as those who designed and cast the magnificent doors at ...

A comprehensive, definitive, extensively illustrated introduction to the history of world art and architecture - from ancient to modern times - this bestselling, authoritative survey provides an understanding of art as art, and art ...