Introduction to Art History Research

For two-semester courses in Art History, Global Art History, and for Introductory Art courses taught from a historical perspective. Volume I covers Prehistoric Art in Europe through Fourteenth-Century Art in Europe. Marilyn Stokstad offers students the most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive global art history survey.

The most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey text on the market. Art: A Brief History provides a combination of formal analysis and contextual art history designed to engage a diverse student population.

Approaches to the history of art are probably more varied and more debated than in any other branch of history, and a study of different historical approaches has become an increasingly important component of many student courses. This critical anthology brings together the work of 27 influential art historians and writers from the Renaissance to the present day.

Beginning with a description of Gothic, Classical, and Baroque architecture, Pierson explores how American architects used these traditions to develop a uniquely American style. He examines the works of the early masters, including Bulfinch's Massachusetts State House, Latrobe's Capitol Building in Washington, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Mills's buildings in South Carolina, as well as Thomas Jefferson's house in Monticello, which represents the clearest expression of the new American architectural vision.

The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present.

Updated and expanded, this Fourth Edition of the most trusted reference in architecture offers the most comprehensive coverage of architectural and construction terms available. This classic dictionary now features nearly 25,000 definitions, 2,500 illustrations, and maintains its extraordinary visual appeal and easy-to-read page design.

Entirely reset and reillustrated, this edition includes many new entries on American architects and architecture. Highly readable, thoroughly cross-referenced, and with bibliographies for further reading, this is an essential reference for architects, students of architecture, and general readers with an interest in the field.

Entirely reset and reillustrated, this edition includes many new entries on American architects and architecture. Highly readable, thoroughly cross-referenced, and with bibliographies for further reading, this is an essential reference for architects, students of architecture, and general readers with an interest in the field.

Beginning with a description of Gothic, Classical, and Baroque architecture, Pierson explores how American architects used these traditions to develop a uniquely American style. He examines the works of the early masters, including Bulfinch's Massachusetts State House, Latrobe's Capitol Building in Washington, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Mills's buildings in South Carolina, as well as Thomas Jefferson's house in Monticello, which represents the clearest expression of the new American architectural vision.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the seminal early work of a century of American architects who studied at the famous École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, before going on to design and build many of the nation's most important buildings and monuments.

Featuring 945 alphabetically arranged entries, biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism. Factual detail and insightful analysis of American painters, sculptors, photographers, contemporary installation artists, important individuals connected to the art scene, collectors, critics, institutions, organizations, schools, techniques, styles, and movements.