Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Concise Global History

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Cengage Learning, 31 jan 2012 - 656 pagina's
GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A CONCISE GLOBAL HISTORY has been written from the ground up to create a one-semester, student-friendly introduction to art history, while retaining the impeccable reliability and scholarship of GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES. This beautifully illustrated third edition has been updated to make it easier than ever for your students to master the material. New features include a chapter dedicated to contemporary art worldwide, coverage of many new images, hundreds of images that have been upgraded for clarity and color-fidelity, chapter features that add cultural context, and much more. A comprehensive, integrated set of online resources brings course content to life, providing students with the tools they need to excel in your class, regardless of their particular learning styles. GARDNER's has built its stellar reputation on the inclusion of the most significant images and monuments, discussions of these images in their full historical and cultural contexts, reproductions of unsurpassed quality, scholarship that is up-to-date and deep, the consistent voice of a single storyteller, reliability, and more online help for students and instructors than any other art survey text. CourseMate, the online learning environment that can be used on its own or as an LMS-specific course cartridge, provides an interactive experience for exploration, study, and development of critical-thinking skills. It includes an interactive eBook, all images included within the text, an expanded video section, audio resources, image flashcards, a printable Slide Guide suitable for note-taking, and much more. Dynamic lecture tools will save instructors time in preparing for class and in personalizing their lectures--a Digital Image Library with full zoom capabilities, side-by-side comparison tools, and Google Earth integration.
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Over de auteur (2012)

Fred S. Kleiner, Ph.D. has been professor of art history and archeology at Boston University for four decades. He taught previously at University of Virginia and served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology. Acclaimed for inspiring lectures, Dr. Kleiner won Boston University's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the College Prize for Undergraduate Advising in the Humanities, and the Distinguished Teaching Prize in the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London as well as the Text and Academic Authors Association. In addition to this title, Dr. Kleiner authored several editions of ART THROUGH THE AGES: A CONCISE HISTORY (Cengage), A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART (Cengage), and more than 100 publications on Greek and Roman art and architecture. Dr. Kleiner earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

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