History of Western Art

Appropriate for one-semester art history survey or historically-focused art appreciation classes,A History of Western Art offers online support,additional color plates,and a number of new text features in this third edition As the name implies,History of Western Art focuses on the Western canon of art history and presents a compelling chronological narrative from prehistory to the present. In the third edition,the Western narrative is supplemented by new boxed essays,"Beyond the West," that address specific techniques or movements of Nonwestern art. These essays augment the Western chronology by illustrating moments of thematic relationships and cross-cultural contact