Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition, Reissued Edition
by Penelope Davies
8th Edition
Publisher: Pearson
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780135570142 |
| eText ISBN | 9780134129617 |
| Publisher | Pearson |
| Publishing Year | 2019 |
| Edition | 8th Edition |
| Language | English |
Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition, Reissued Edition, 8th Edition, is a comprehensive textbook that surveys Western visual culture through direct engagement with art objects. The text emphasizes style, technique, manufacture, and visual character while treating individual artists' contributions as central to analysis.
Coverage begins with ancient traditions, including Prehistoric, Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art, and continues through medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque developments across Europe. The chronological survey extends through nineteenth-century movements and twentieth-century modernism to art of the postmodern era.
Art Historian's Lens feature boxes demonstrate how scholars evaluate evidence and develop historical arguments, introducing practical methods used in art historical research.
Table of Contents
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
Chapter 8: Early Christian And Byzantine Art
Chapter 9: Islamic Art
Chapter 10: Early Medieval Art
Chapter 11: Romanesque Art
Chapter 12: Gothic Art
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 in Sixteenth-Century Northern 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
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, 1904--1914
Chapter 28: Art Between the Wars
Chapter 29: Postwar to Postmodern, 1945--1980
Chapter 30: The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980
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