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From prehistoric Europe to the 1990s, a readable, down-to-earth survey of Western art offers a history that is placed firmly in context and a vivid appreciation of the West's greatest visual arts.
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It's difficult for any author trying to produce a beginning-level art history textbook to come up with something that is truly exemplary because the very nature of the task requires skimming or excluding so much of what is vital to understanding the subject. Adams ( Art and Psychoanalysis , LJ 9/15/93) has produced a work like many others in that it provides an enticing but fuzzy snapshot of each artistic period as it races from the Venus of Willendorf to Jean-Michel Basquiat in 500 pages. One of Adams's most valuable innovations over such standard texts as H.W. Janson's History of Art or Helen Gardner's Art Through the Ages is the beginning chapter, which covers the language of the visual artist--a brief but straightforward discussion of form, line, and value relating directly to later chapters. She has also included a much higher proportion of color images than do other titles in this price range and has added sidebars to enhance her main text. Ultimately, this book will be useful to students in first-year Western art history classes, but it need only be purchased by college libraries where such courses are common.
- Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., Cal.
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- PublisherHarry N Abrams Inc
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0810934256
- ISBN 13 9780810934252
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages512
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