Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post Modernism
A companion volume to the PBS television series of the same title, this compact survey of Western art history is a readable if somewhat bland recapitulation of the conventional high art canon. Written on a level suitable for high school students and general readers, the volume includes good reproductions of one or two of the best-known works by famous masters of painting, sculpture, and architecture, with extremely few women or minority artists among them. The captions to the reproductions omit such basic information as dimensions, location, and media. Because of its television connection and its appealing contemporary design, this book should find a fairly wide audience, though both greater depth and breadth can still be found in such standard art histories as H.W. Janson's History of Art (Abrams, 1986. 3d ed.).- Kathryn W. Finkelstein, M.Ln., CincinnatiCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.