- Paperback: 227 pages
- Publisher: Pearson; 6 edition (29 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130197289
- ISBN-13: 978-0130197283
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.8 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,995,568 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For freshman and sophomore courses in Art History Survey (1 or 2 semesters) and Introduction to Art.
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 text — this handbook defines the most common terms used in discussing the history of visual arts, relating them to specific works illustrated in these standard texts.
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Included in this edition:
- table of parallel illustrations in Stokstad's Art History (Revised Edition), Hartt's Art (Fourth Edition), Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Eleventh Edition), and Janson's History of Art (Sixth Edition)
- additional iconographical entries and examples
- update of previous entries relating to ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art
- expanded chronology of painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects with phonetic pronunciations
- index, including terms and subjects defined with major entries
A comprehensive supplement to Janson's History of Art, Sixth Edition, this handbook, which can stand alone as a brief reference text, defines and explains the most common terms and concepts used in discussing the history of visual arts. The handbook places art terms, processes, and principles in historical contexts with references to more than 1,200 illustrations in the Janson text.
Among its many features, this handbook:- offers a dictionary of terms, processes, and principles, together with an extensive discussion of basic perceptual concepts and fundamentals of visual literacy
- presents a dictionary of the iconography of ancient art
- covers Christian subjects and their iconography in chronological order
- focuses on Christian symbols and attributes of saints
- provides a more complete, systematic treatment of the media, techniques, processes, and visual principles than explored in the standard art survey texts
- includes maps and line drawings to illustrate concepts in the text
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Complete for a beginner ...
27 Mar 2003
Format:Paperback
I recently purchased this text along with Janson's History of Art (5th ed.). Although this handbook was written with Janson's 6th edition in mind, it has not taken away from my cross-referenced learning experience. Throughout the text, there are references to examples (illustrations) in History of Art (or other popular art history texts) which help in applying the "theory" (if you can call it that) with the "application."
The text has a wide range of art terms key to the study and analysis of art history. The section on Christian subjects, signs and symbols has helped me decipher the icons depicted in Christian-themed pieces of the Renaissance.
My copy of the text is bound somewhat backwards towards the end. The Index and Artist Chronology pages, for example, are divided and unordered ... but it does not take away from the text's usablity!
All in all, I believe this text has been a great investment.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
From Abacus to Zeus
24 Feb 2000
Format:Paperback
In Abacus to Zeus, you will find a wonderful, concise, approachable 'quick and dirty' reference for those new to studying the visual arts. James Pierce brings together many of the pesky, essential--and formerly, ellusive--details in an accessible reference. Deffinitions with illustrations, terms and stories of mythology, religious art,and a chronology of artists and architects (complete with pronunciation guide--indespensible for those of us who remain unilingual) work well together to make this book a find!
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6 Feb 2011
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Respectable shipping speed, cost felt high for a simple book that acts as a dictionary for artistic terms but it is what it is. Unless you are an art enthusiast this book may not be very necessary.
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