Carol Strickland

John Boswell

A layman's guide to art history free from bogged down, convoluted theories provides the reader with a basic working knowledge of art and its influence on society, from ancient times to today. Simultaneous.

The Annotated Mona Lisa

From cave paintings to Jeff Koons--that’s where this stunningly illustrated history of art takes you. Filled with pictures of paintings, sculptures, museum artifacts, and architectural standouts, and a cross-cultural approach that encompasses European, American, Asian, and Islamic masterpieces, it proceeds on a thrilling visual tour. Carol Strickland--author of the bestselling Annotated Mona Lisa (300,000 copies sold)--serves as guide, and delivers superb background that sets the stage for each era’s timeline, as well as informative sidebars that reveal the broader implications of new styles and movements.

A Crash Course in Words & Pictures

The Illustrated Timeline of Art History

Amy Handy

Traces the historical and technological development of the arch from the ancient world to the twentieth century, and highlights the arches of the Colosseum, Chartres Cathedral, Monticello, and the Guggenheim Museum.

A Crash Course in the History of Architecture

The Annotated Arch

An illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to contemporary world art, from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media in an easy-to-understand format. This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated from the second edition published in 2007. Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Present takes art education out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes the history of art movements accessible to beginning art museum-goers - even at a cursory reading. From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from African art to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections (prehistoric and medieval, renaissance and baroque, the nineteenth century, modern art, and contemporary art) covering a little more than 230 pages.

A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Present

The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition

An illustrated timeline chronicles the evolution of all forms of literature from antiquity to the present day and includes a detailed introduction and color-coding to show whether a work is poetry, fiction, drama, or non-fiction.

The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature

Christoph Keller

Aris Kalaizis

Tom Huhn

Aris Kalaizis' close-to-photography paintings inspire the imagination of the viewer and make him discover mysterious and symbolic places. With brilliant accuracy and creative fantasy he designs pictures which crowd in on the subconscious of the amazed admirer. Not surprisingly the artist needs long time to accomplish these paintings, each brushstroke is calculated, each gesture is thoroughly observed, and the colors are exactly coordinated. During working periods in Columbus, OH and New York 2005-2007 he had some group exhibitions in New York galleries.

Carol Strickland

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