The story of art, with 398 illustrations /
Helen Gardner, Horst de la Croix, and Richard G. Tansey
- 12th Edition
- London, United Kingdom : Phaidon Press Limited, c1972
- 498 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. The Ancient World-- 1. The Birth of art-- 2. The Ancient near East-- 3. The Art of Egypt-- 4. The Art of the Aegean-- 5. The Art of Greece-- 6. Etruscan and Roman Art-- 7. Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art -- II. The Middle Ages-- 8. Early Medieval Art-- 9. Romanesque Art-- 10. Gothic Art -- III. The Non-European World-- 11. The art of India-- 12. The art of China-- 13. The art of Japan-- 14. The native arts of the Americas, Africa, and the South Pacific.
This book was planned from the outset to tell the story of art in both words and pictures by enabling the reader as far as possible to have the illustration discussed in the text in front of him, without having to turn the page. This book is intended for all who feel in need of some first orientation in a strange and fascinating field. It may serve to show the newcomer the lie of the land without confusing him with the details; to enable him to bring some intelligible order into the wealth of names, periods and styles which crowd the pages of more ambitious works, and so to equip him for consulting more specialized books.