Synopsis
The Visual Arts is recognized as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging history of art available in one volume. Now completely revised, it's more comprehensive and compelling than ever. Authors Honour and Fleming take readers from prehistory to Post-Modernism, exploring all the familiar movements and masterworks but also delving into non-Western traditions, architecture, and the decorative arts. The incisive text (incorporating new research and discoveries), more than 1,350 illustrations (nearly 20% new), maps (all redrawn), time charts (all redesigned), and sidebars (including the new "Concepts" and "Urban Development") make this an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand art in context
Booknews
<:st> This hefty, thoroughly illustrated single-volume history by two esteemed art historians is international in scope and comprehensive in its coverage of the visual arts, including painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, and photography, as well as textiles, coins, pottery enamels, gold, and silver. cites this reference, which was first published in 1982. (The fifth edition was also published paperbound by Prentice Hall, and in the UK by Laurence King Publishing under the title .) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)