Gardner's Art Through the Ages, 13th Edition

Fred S. Kleiner, Ph.D.

Copyright 2010
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The 13th Edition of GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: NON-WESTERN PERSPECTIVES takes this brilliant bestseller to new heights in addressing the challenges of today's classroom. The most widely read history of art in the English language for more than 80 years, GARDNER 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 context, reproductions of unsurpassed quality, scholarship that is up-to-date and deep, and more help for students and instructors than any other survey text. The 13th Edition adds to this heritage with new images and new full-color reconstructions, as well as a unique \"scale\" feature that helps students visualize the size of each work. Students will also benefit from the clarity that only a book written by a single author can provide, as well as from \"The Big Picture\" overviews at the end of every chapter, a special global timeline, and ArtStudy Online (a free interactive study guide that includes image flashcards and quizzes to help students master the material quickly). Dynamic lecture tools\u2014including a digital library with a full \"zoom\" and side-by-side comparison capability and the exciting Google Earth technology\u2014will save instructors time in preparing for class and personalizing their lectures.

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Fred S. Kleiner, Ph.D.

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 a member of the Text and Academic Authors Association. In addition to this title, Dr. Kleiner has authored several editions of ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL 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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Single Author, Single Voice. Fred Kleiner, a noted scholar, journal editor, and award-winning teacher, is now the sole author of GARDNER. He ensures a coherence and clarity of presentation that no other text can match, making the 13th Edition easier for students to read and understand than other texts.
A NEW "scale" feature, not available in any other art history textbook. Scales are placed next to images in the text to help students better visualize the size of each work—so they can easily see which image is a monumental sculpture or mural and which is a figurine or miniature. These innovative scales help students to better grasp the importance of scale—which, like composition, color, line, and other terms used in understanding and describing an artwork—is critical in helping students see the artist's purpose. All photographs of paintings, statues, and other artwork (with the exception of architecture and a few other items) shown in this edition are accompanied by these scales.
Many NEW full-color images in this edition's stunning photo program. In the constant effort to provide the most engaging book possible, the 13th Edition includes many new full-color images, including even sharper images of works that appeared in previous editions. For example, a standing male figure from Sanxingdui in China, reveals the figure's incised details. Its inclusion is the result of the author's travels to China in 2004. Travel to Mesoamerica resulted in the inclusion of the Casa Montejo in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
NEW captions for quick review accompany every image in the text, providing brief commentary on the most significant aspects of the artwork. These detailed descriptions serve as a helpful student study and review tool.
A great NEW resource for review and retention, full-page "The Big Picture" features conclude each chapter. These features include concise bullet-point summaries of the most important characteristics of each period discussed in the chapter, accompanied by small illustrations of characteristic works of the periods. As students review the summary points, they reinforce their understanding visually with the associated "thumbnail" images of representative art work.

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Author Fred Kleiner is a master teacher who revised GARDNER specifically to engage introductory students. More than other texts, this book offers your students thorough coverage and superb scholarship that they can read easily and understand on their own.
Located at the front of the book, a useful introduction to the study and terms of art history helps students prepare for the vocabulary of art historians and the concepts and periods they will be learning as they progress through the book.
Six types of boxes provide contextual information to supplement the primary text. They include "Artists on Art" (NEW), "Materials and Techniques," "Written Sources," "Religion and Mythology," "Art and Society," and "Architectural Basics."
Relevant information on the cultural and historical place of art in society informs every page of the text. With appropriate attention to form, this edition also puts emphasis on the function and role of art.
To help readers master the vocabulary of art history, GARDNER'S 13th italicizes and defines art historical terms and other unfamiliar words where they first appear in the text—and at later occurrences, whenever the term has not been used again for several chapters. Definitions of all terms in the text appear once more in the Glossary and pronunciation guide at the back of the book.

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Introduction: What Is Art History?
1. South and South East Asia before 1200.
2. South and Southeast Asia after 1200.
3. China and Korea to 1279.
4. China and Korea after 1279.
5. Japan before 1333.
6. Japan after 1336.
7. The Islamic World.
8. Native Arts of the Americas before 1300.
9. Native Arts of the Americas after 1300.
10. Africa before 1800.
11. Africa after 1800.
12. Oceania.
Glossary.
Index.