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I wasn't anticipating liking art history as much as I did. I absolutely loved this textbook and the class that I bought it for.

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With each new copy of the book, students receive a copy of the ArtStudy 2.0 CD-ROM-an interactive electronic study aid that fully integrates with the Twelfth Edition and includes hundreds of high-quality digital images, plus maps, quizzes, and more. What's more, the expanded ancillary package that accompanies GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES, features a wealth of tools to enhance your students' experience in the course. The Twelfth Edition features such enhancements as more color photographs, a stunning new design, and the most current research and scholarship. The Twelfth Edition maintains and exceeds the richness of the Gardner legacy with updated research and scholarship and an even more beautiful art program featuring more color images than any other art history book available. It is the first art history book to win either award and the only title ever to win both prizes in one year. So much so, that in 2001, the Text and Academic Authors Association awarded both the McGuffey and the 'Texty' Book Prizes to the Eleventh Edition of the text. By virtue of its comprehensive coverage, strong emphasis on context, and rich, accurate art reproductions, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has earned and sustained a reputation of excellence and authority.

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With this book in hand, thousands of students have watched the story of art unfold in its full historical, social, religious, economic, and cultural context, and thus deepened their understanding of art, architecture, painting, and sculpture. The book has remained a required text for introductory classes in art history for American students into the 21st century.The market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. Sumner's organization continues to be used in editions of Gardner's. The division into Ancient, European, Non-European, and Modern Art and the grouping by periods and countries under these divisions will, we believe, provide a clear and coherent chronological account of the history of art throughout the world. As our table of contents indicates, we have presented the arts of different periods and countries in a more normal order. In the Preface, Crosby states: Although Miss Gardner's organization of the Third Edition provided many opportunities for interesting comparisons and made it possible to study in adjacent chapters what was occurring in different parts of the world during more or less the same historic periods, this organization often obscured the intrinsic qualities and especially the development of the different styles. This edition introduced readers to a new term 'non-European art.' It also moved away from Gardner's interest in drawing comparisons between art from different parts of the world. Crosby by the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. In 1959, the fourth edition was published under the editorship of Sumner McK. The second edition was published in 1936 and the 3rd came out in 1948, a year after Gardner died. This approach was maintained for the first three editions that were all edited by Helen Gardner.

Gardner's initial edition was ahead of its time in that along with the Western canon of European art, it examined the art of India, Aboriginal America, China, and Japan. It, like all following editions, was organized chronologically beginning with 'The Birth of Art' in the Upper Paleolithic and progressing in a mainly chronological sequence to the contemporary period. The first edition published in 1926 was written by Helen Gardner.