The definitive survey of the Western Art tradition—the standard against which all other art history surveys are measured—this classic text uses an exceptional art program, impeccable scholarship, rich color, accurate illustrations printed in five colors, and student-friendly pedagogy to introduce readers to the vast world of Western painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the minor arts. With an effectively written, balanced, and interesting narrative, it presents art as a succession of styles—from Prehistory through the 1990s—and enlarges students' capacity to appreciate individual works of art in and of themselves, not merely to accumulate data about them.

• NEW - Accessible style —Rewritten for students with less exposure or preparation to the subject material.

  • Makes this text easier for instructors to teach and easier for students to understand.

• NEW - Introduction re-edited—With cartoons accompanying text.

  • Supplies instructors with material that is lighter in tone, and in a user-friendly context. Eases students into a subject area that many find intimidating at first.

• NEW - Context boxes added—Most with illustrations.

  • Allows instructors to broaden the range of discussion. Increases students' visual interest in the text and provides them with a fuller picture of the range of related topics.

• NEW - Dramatic new color maps—Open each Part.

  • Provides students with easy-to-read, detailed, double-pages that show all sites mentioned in the Part.

• NEW - Primary Sources—Reworked throughout.

  • Exposes students to important written works created throughout the course of history. Makes it easier for instructors to introduce related primary source material into the course.

• NEW - Format redesigned —For a less text-heavy look.

  • Enables instructors to help students navigate through the material. Encourages students to keep up with their reading assignments.

• NEW - 100 additional illustrations—Over 1200 in all.

  • Offers an improved view of the artworks covered to enliven classroom discussions and increase student understanding of topics.

• NEW - Part on Ancient Art revised.

  • Presents students with more recent scholarship and additional information on Egypt, the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome.

• NEW - Chapter on Neoclassicism and Romanticism reworked.

  • Offers students additional material on theater, music, printmaking techniques, and literature.

• NEW - Greater focus on religious iconography—With emphasis on the Renaissance.

  • Discusses the inspiration of Poliziano in Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Raphael's Galatea, and the symbolism of Giorgione's The Tempest.

• Over forty concise discussions of cultural developments—Paralleling movements in art from ancient Greek times through our own Postmodern era.

  • Provides students with insightful, cross disciplinary essays focusing mainly on music and theater, and also including topics such as Greek and Roman mythology, Christian iconography, Western monastic orders, and medieval guilds.

• History of styles focused on—From the 30,000-year-old paintings at Chauvet cave in southern France to today's experimental installations.

  • Makes connections and comparisons among styles and cultures.

• Solid coverage of painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography.

  • Incorporates major works—in color—to establish chronological relationships.

• Highest-quality color and duotone black-and-white illustrations—As well as diagrams and plans.

  • Assembles an unsurpassed quantity of subtle, true, five-color (many full page), and rich black-and-white photos, as well as line drawings (printed on matte-coated paper), in close proximity to text references.

• 104 substantive excerpts—Each 3-4 paragraphs in length.

  • Provides students with important primary-source writings on art for specific major periods—from Ancient Egypt to Postmodernism—to lend a real context for the study of art.

• 200-word part introduction.

  • Details for students selected events in history that had a particular impact on art.

• Four multipage timelines.

  • Illustrates for students—in full color—events in art, history, religion, philosophy, science, technology, and literature.

• Accessible style —Rewritten for students with less exposure or preparation to the subject material.

  • Makes this text easier for instructors to teach and easier for students to understand.

• Introduction re-edited—With cartoons accompanying text.

  • Supplies instructors with material that is lighter in tone, and in a user-friendly context. Eases students into a subject area that many find intimidating at first.

• Context boxes added—Most with illustrations.

  • Allows instructors to broaden the range of discussion. Increases students' visual interest in the text and provides them with a fuller picture of the range of related topics.

• Dramatic new color maps—Open each Part.

  • Provides students with easy-to-read, detailed, double-pages that show all sites mentioned in the Part.

• Primary Sources—Reworked throughout.

  • Exposes students to important written works created throughout the course of history. Makes it easier for instructors to introduce related primary source material into the course.

• Format redesigned —For a less text-heavy look.

  • Enables instructors to help students navigate through the material. Encourages students to keep up with their reading assignments.

• 100 additional illustrations—Over 1200 in all.

  • Offers an improved view of the artworks covered to enliven classroom discussions and increase student understanding of topics.

• Part on Ancient Art revised.

  • Presents students with more recent scholarship and additional information on Egypt, the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome.

• Chapter on Neoclassicism and Romanticism reworked.

  • Offers students additional material on theater, music, printmaking techniques, and literature.

• Greater focus on religious iconography—With emphasis on the Renaissance.

  • Discusses the inspiration of Poliziano in Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Raphael's Galatea, and the symbolism of Giorgione's The Tempest.

III. THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO.

IV. THE MODERN WORLD.

Art History Survey  (Art)

H. W. JANSON is a legendary name in the field of art history. For more than twenty-five years professor of fine arts at New York University, he produced an impressive list of publications. Among them are many books that remain standard references, including The Story of Painting for Young People (with Dora Jane Janson, his wife), The Sculpture of Donatello, 19th Century Art (with Robert Rosenblum), and 19th-Century Sculpture. His world-famous History of Art has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Twice a Guggenheim Fellow, Professor Janson was for three years editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Art Bulletin.

ANTHONY F. JANSON, professor of art history at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, has forged a distinguished career as a teacher, writer, and museum professional. Besides authoring books, catalogs, and articles on Western art from the Renaissance to 1900, he has held curatorial posts at the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida; and the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. After his father's death in 1982, Dr. Janson took over authorship of History of Art and History of Art for Young People, on which he had earlier collaborated.

History of Art, the classic survey of Western art by H.W. and Anthony F. Janson, has, for generations, maintained the highest quality in both scholarship and art reproduction. This definitive text, remaining forever vital, has undergone several significant changes in its Sixth Edition. Rewritten in a more accessible style, this already sumptuously illustrated book has been further enhanced by the inclusion of over 150 new illustrations, approximately 75% of which are in color. Many of these images have been added to informative, cross-disciplinary essays that focus mainly on music and theater but also on such topics as Greek and Roman mythology. Christian iconography, Western monastic orders, and medieval guilds. This new feature further enriches the updated and reworked narrative, as do the expanded Primary Source readings, which are keyed to the text. Solid pedagogy is reinforced by the inclusion of glossaries with clear and concise definitions illustrated by figure references from the chapters. With an aim toward greater clarity and usefulness, the maps have been consolidated, revised, and handsomely redesigned. An updated Website directory of museums and general art sites, as well as an outstanding bibliography, complete the featured changes to this edition.

The quality of this book's 288 strikingly accurate color reproductions and 159 rich black-and-white photographs—printed on matte-coated paper—far surpasses that found in any other survey. The verity of the color tones and black-and-white values is an invaluable asset in the study and appreciation of individual works of art, and the proximity of all the illustrations to the discussions about them is critical to a book that is based on the understanding of formal elements and style.

The intelligence, verve, and clarity that have always characterized History of Art remain. This great book rises above its many imitators in its comprehension of the Western tradition, its clarity of expression, and its physical beauty as an artbook. From the 30,000-year-old paintings at Chauvet cave in Southern France to today's experimental installations, the connections, transitions, and comparisons among styles and cultures are explained. The narrative of art history is told with majesty, balance, and wit—enlarging our capacity to understand and appreciate the works of art themselves, not merely t accumulate data about them. As the Jansons tell it, the story of art becomes an adventure, a quest for the forms and techniques that have been devised to satisfy the ageless human drive for self-expression.

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