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Gardner’s Art through the Ages: A Concise Western History, 4th Edition

Authors: by Fred S. Kleiner (Author)

GARDNER’S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A CONCISE WESTERN HISTORY has been written from the ground up to create a one-semester, student-friendly introduction to art history while retaining the impeccable reliability and scholarship of Gardner’s Art through the Ages. This beautifully illustrated fourth edition has been updated to make it easier than ever for students to master the material. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

PREFACE 
I take great pleasure in introducing the extensively revised and expanded 4th edition of Gardner’s Art through the Ages: A Concise Western History, which for the first time is, like the unabridged 15th edition published last year, a hybrid textbook—the only introductory survey of the history of art and architecture of its kind. This innovative new type of “Gardner” retains all of the best features of traditional books on paper while harnessing 21st-century technology to increase the number of works and themes discussed without enlarging the size of the printed book—and at negligible additional cost to the reader.
When Helen Gardner published the first edition of Art through the Ages in 1926, she could not have imagined that nearly a century later instructors all over the world would still be using her textbook in their classrooms. (The book has even been translated into Mandarin Chinese.) Nor could Professor Gardner have foreseen that a new publisher would make her text available in special editions corresponding to a wide variety of introductory art history courses ranging from yearlong global surveys to Western- and nonwestern-only surveys to the one-semester course for which this concise edition was designed. Indeed, if Helen Gardner were alive today, she would not recognize the book that long ago became—and remains—the world’s most widely read introduction to the history of art and architecture. I hope that instructors and students alike will agree that this new edition lives up to that venerable tradition and, in fact, exceeds their high expectations. key features of the 4th edition
For the 4th concise edition of Art through the Ages, in addition to updating the text of every chapter to incorporate the latest research, I have added several important new features while retaining the basic format and scope of the previous edition. The new edition boasts more photographs, plans, and drawings than the previous three versions of the book, nearly all in color and reproduced according to the highest standards of clarity and color fidelity. The illustrations include a new set of maps and scores of new images, among them a series of superb photographs taken by Jonathan Poore exclusively for Art through the Ages in Germany and Italy (following similar forays into France and Italy in 2009–2011). The online MindTap® component also includes custom videos made by Sharon Adams Poore during those five photo campaigns. This extraordinary new archive of visual material ranges from ancient temples in Rome; to medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque churches in France, Germany, and Italy; to such modern masterpieces as Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ron champ, France, and the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany. The 4th edition also features an expanded number of the highly acclaimed architectural drawings of John Burge. Together, these exclusive photographs, videos, maps, and drawings provide readers with a visual feast unavailable anywhere else.
Once again, scales accompany the photograph of every painting, statue, or other artwork discussed—another distinctive feature of the Gardner text. The scales provide students with a quick and effective way to visualize how big or small a given artwork is and its relative size compared with other objects in the same chapter and throughout the book—especially important given that the illustrated works vary in size from tiny to colossal.
Also retained in this edition are the Quick-Review Captions (brief synopses of the most significant aspects of each artwork or building illustrated) that students have found invaluable when preparing for  examinations. These extended captions accompany not only every image in the printed book but also all the digital images in the MindTap version of the text. Each chapter also again ends with
the highly popular full-page feature called The Big Picture, which sets forth in bullet-point format the most important characteristics of each period or artistic movement discussed in the chapter. Also
retained from the third edition are the timelines summarizing the major artistic and architectural developments during the era treated (again in bullet-point format for easy review) and the chapter-opening
essays called Framing the Era discussing a characteristic painting, sculpture, or building and illustrated by four photographs. Boxed essays on special topics again appear throughout the book as well. These essays fall under eight broad categories, three of which are new to the 4th edition: Architectural Basics boxes provide students with a sound foundation for the understanding of architecture. These discussions are concise explanations, with drawings and diagrams, of the major aspects of design and construction. The information included is essential to an understanding of architectural technology and terminology.
Materials and Techniques essays explain the various media that artists have employed from prehistoric to modern times. Since materials and techniques often influence the character of artworks, these discussions contain important information on why many monuments appear as they do.
Religion and Mythology boxes introduce students to the principal elements of the world’s great religions, past and present, and to the representation of religious and mythological themes in painting and sculpture of all periods and places. These discussions of belief systems and iconography give readers a richer understanding of some of the greatest artworks ever created.
Art and Society essays treat the historical, social, political, cultural, and religious context of art and architecture. In some instances, specific monuments are the basis for a discussion of broader themes.
In the Artists on Art boxes, artists and architects throughout history discuss both their theories and individual works. New to the 4th edition are three new categories of boxed essays: Written Sources, The Patron’s Voice, and Problems and Solutions. The first category presents and discusses key historical documents illuminating major monuments of art and architecture throughout the world. The passages quoted permit voices from the past to speak directly to the reader, providing vivid insights into the creation of artworks in all media. The Patron’s Voice essays underscore the important roles that individuals and groups played in determining the character of the artworks and buildings that they commissioned and paid for. The new Problems and Solutions boxes are designed to make students think critically about the decisions that went into the making of every painting, sculpture, and building from the Old Stone Age to the present. These essays address questions of how and why various forms developed, the problems that painters, sculptors, and architects confronted, and the solutions that they devised to resolve them. Other noteworthy features retained from the 3rd edition are the (updated) bibliography of books in English; a glossary containing definitions of all italicized terms introduced in both the printed text and MindTap essays; and a complete museum index, now housed online only, listing all illustrated artworks by their present
location. The host of state-of-the-art MindTap online resources are enumerated on page xxi.