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From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History
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About From Abacus To Zeus: A Handbook Of Art History
Product Description Designed as a comprehensive supplement to Janson's History of Art, Sixth Edition, Hartt's Art, Fourth Edition, Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Eleventh Edition, and Stokstad's Art History (Revised) — but also appropriate as a stand-alone brief reference volume — this handbook defines the most common terms used in discussing the history of visual arts, relating them to specific works illustrated in these standard volumes. Topics covered include art terms, processes, and principles, gods, heroes, and monsters, Christian subjects, saints and their attributes, Christian signs and symbols, chronology of painters, photographers, sculptors, and architects, as well as maps, and a directory of museum websites. For art and art history enthusiasts. From the Back Cover From Abacus to Zeus, Seventh Edition is a comprehensive handbook that defines and explains the most common terms and concepts used in discussing the history of visual arts. Useful as either a brief reference text or a supplement to an art history survey text, this handbook places art terms, processes, and principles in historical contexts with references to more than 1200 illustrations in Janson's History of Art, Revised Sixth Edition. Included in this edition: table of parallel illustrations in Stokstad's Art History (Second Edition), Hartt's Art (Fourth Edition), and Kleiner and Mamiya's, Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Eleventh Edition) and Janson's History of Art (Revised Sixth Edition) Directory of museum websites to assist students in their research on the world wide web additional iconographic entries and examples expanded chronology of painters, sculptors, photographers and architects with phonetic pronunciations. A Prentice Hall Art Basics Title ART BASICS: A series of brief, high quality, and moderately priced handbooks written by well-known educators in their field of study. Each student-friendly handbook is designed to stand alone or to be packaged with a traditional survey text. New for 2004 Thinking and Writing About Art History, 3/e by Donna K. Reid 0-13-183050-3 Artsguide: World and Web, 2/e by Dennis J. Sporre 0-13-177526-X Writing About the Humanities, 2/e by Robert DiYanni 0-13-183049-X The Handbook of Art and Design Terms, by David J. Edwards 0-13-098991-6 To request an examination copy, please contact your local representative or visit www.prenhall.com . Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. ART must ultimately be explained in terms of art, not art terms. The description of visual form, the definition of stylistic categories, and the decoding of ancient myth and symbol, while fascinating pursuits in their own right, are of greatest value when they are mastered with the aim of comprehending the unique expressive power of individual works of art. This handbook has been prepared with that end in mind. Terminology and iconography have been defined with reference to specific works of art. This is done by keying entries to the splendid collection of over 1,200 reproductions in the Revised Sixth Edition of H.W and A.F. Janson's popular and accessible History o f Art. Thus, terms, processes, principles, subjects, and symbols are not only defined verbally but can be studied as they appear in particular contexts and in historical sequence. For those who may have Marilyn Stokstad's Art History (Second Edition), the Fourth Edition of Frederick Hartt's Art, or the Eleventh Edition of Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner's Art through the Ages, a list of identical or similar illustrations in these art history surveys, paralleling those in the Revised Sixth Edition of Janson's History o f Art, is provided at the very back of this book. By consulting this table of parallel illustrations, most of the Janson figure numbers referred to in the entries in this book can also be located in current editions of Stokstad, Hartt, and Gardner. The numbers in italics found in the various entries (e
