Added by: miaow | Karma: 8463.40 | Other | 2 August 2015
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Appropriate for one-semester art history surveys or historically-focused art appreciation classes, A History of Western Art, Fifth Edition, combines sound scholarship, lavish visuals, and a lively narrative to provide students with an accessible and engaging introduction to art history. Focusing on the Western canon, the text presents a compelling chronological narrative from prehistory to the present. A non-Western supplement, World Views: Topics in Non-Western Art, addresses specific areas of non-Western art and augments the Western chronology by illustrating moments of thematic relationships and cross-cultural contact.
This book is a classic - it's been around for half a century - but its contents and pedagogical approach are very much up-to-date. Provides reviews, quizzes, drills, and listening exercises, as well as experiential activities for students that emphasize listening to popular, traditional, and non-Western music.
In his slim volume Cultural Imperialism, critical theorist John Tomlinson begs scholars to reconsider the scope and impact of Western culture on non-Western regions.
