Introduction to Art History I (Myers)
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This textbook, designed specifically for C-ID ARTH 110 and produced by a team of art historians working within the CCC system, curates scholarly resources into a coherent textbook with chapter introductions, a comprehensive glossary, and explanatory editors’ notes. Throughout, it acknowledges and explores the historiography of art history and brings in global connections to provide a broader, more diverse, and more inclusive survey of art history from the Paleolithic through Gothic periods. (2022)
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Front Matter
1: Textbook Introduction
2: Introduction to Art History and Art Historical Analysis
3: The Visual Elements and Principles of Composition
4: Art of the Ancient Americas
5: Art of the Stone Age
6: The Ancient Near East
7: Ancient Egypt
8: The Ancient Aegean
9: Ancient Greece
10: The Etruscans
11: The Roman Empire
12: Late Antiquity
13: Medieval I- Reorganization of the Roman World and the Birth of Islam
14: Medieval II- Contested Empires
15: Medieval III- Reorganization of the East
16: Gothic Europe
17: Back Matter- Glossary and Index
Back Matter