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History of Art, The Western Tradition, Volume II: Renaissance Through Postmodern Art by H. W. Janson, H.W Janson, H. W Janson, H. W. Janson, Horst Woldemar JANSON, Anthony F. Janson, H. W. Janson is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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s/t: Prehistoric Through Gothic Art Back in the early 1970s, "Janson"--as History of Art is universally known--was a hefty but manageable 616 pages, illustrated mostly with black-and-white photographs. It also famously contained not a single work by a female artist and devoted a scant eight pages to non-Western art. Five editions and three decades later, the art history student's Stone Age-to-20th-century Bible has swelled into a massive, slipcased, 1,000-page tome studded with 865 color reproductions and subheadings that corral individual artists whose achievements used to flow together like some mighty art historical river. Women artists (from 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi to contemporary photographer Cindy Sherman) now make the cut, and the focus is purely Western, extended to include 20th-century photography and postmodernism (with a scant two pages on postmodern theory). The timeline charting landmarks in art alongside key events in history, science, and the arts has been handsomely redesigned. Each historical period now has its own world map and selection of excerpts from primary sources (including unusual ones, like a fellow monk's account of painter Hugo va

Author

H. W. Janson, H.W Janson, H. W Janson, H. W. Janson, Horst Woldemar JANSON, Anthony F. Janson, H. W. Janson

Publisher

Harry N. Abrams; Prentice Hall, and Harry N. Abrams, Publishers

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810934467

Subjects

Art, History, Arts