Davies Penelope J.E., Denny Walter B., Fox Hofrichter Frima, Jacobs Joseph F., Roberts Ann S., Simon David L. Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition

8th Edition. — Pearson, 2010. — 1184 p. — ISBN10: 0133884880; ISBN13: 978-0133884883.Rewritten and reorganized, this new edition weaves together the most recent scholarship, the most current thinking in art history, and the most innovative online supplements, including digital art library. Experience the new Janson and re-experience the history of art.Long established as the classic and seminal introduction to art of the Western world, the Eighth Edition of Janson's History of Art is groundbreaking. When Harry Abrams first published the History of Art in 1962, John F. Kennedy occupied the White House, and Andy Warhol was an emerging artist. Janson offered his readers a strong focus on Western art, an important consideration of technique and style, and a clear point of view. The History of Art, said Janson, was not just a stringing together of historically significant objects, but the writing of a story about their interconnections, a history of styles and of stylistic change. Janson's text focused on the visual and technical characteristics of the objects he discussed, often in extraordinarily eloquent language. Janson's History of Art helped to establish the canon of art history for many generations of scholars.Prehistoric Art
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Egyptian Art
Aegean Art
Greek Art
Etruscan Art
Roman Art
Early Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
Islamic Art
Early Medieval Art
Romanesque Art
Gothic Art
Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy
Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe
The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy
The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520
The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Renaissance and Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe
The Baroque in Italy and Spain
The Baroque in the Netherlands
The Baroque in France and England
The Rococo
Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789
Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789-1848
The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848-1885
Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905
Toward Abstraction: The Modernist Revolution, 1904-1914
Art Between the Wars
Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980
The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980