Award-winning scholar-professor Fred Kleiner continues to set the standard for art history textbooks, combining impeccable scholarship with an engaging approach that discusses the most significant artworks and monuments in their full historical and cultural contexts. The most widely read and respected history of art and architecture in the English language for over 85 years, the 15th edition of GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY, VOLUME II includes nearly 200 new images, new pedagogical box features, images that have been upgraded for clarity and color-fidelity, and more. Over 40 reviewers contributed to the accuracy and readability of this edition.
GARDNER'S has built its stellar reputation on up-to-date and extensive scholarship, reproductions of unsurpassed quality, the consistent voice of a single storyteller, and more online resources and help for students and instructors than any other art survey text. A highly comprehensive array of digital resources brings course content to life, providing students with the tools they need to excel.
MindTap for GARDNER'S provides an interactive digital experience for exploration, study, and development of critical-thinking skills, with an interactive eBook; zoomable versions of images from the text; nearly 300 videos; audio resources; image flashcards; quizzes and critical-thinking questions; and much more. Highly customizable, MindTap allows instructors to easily add their own images, videos, links, articles, activities, and quizzes. Available assets for instructors include a Digital Image Library with zoom capability, pre-made chapter lecture slide decks, and Google Earth coordinates for every artwork in the text.
The 15th edition includes Google Earth coordinates for all sites and works discussed in the text to help you bring your students on a virtual tour of art through the ages.
New architecture videos, available on MindTap, give students a virtual tour of significant monuments and sites and the feeling of "being there" while learning more about interior and exterior features and details.
"Problems and Solutions" and "The Patron's Voice" text boxes add a further dimension to students' understanding of particular works and movements.
All maps have been updated and revised for clarity and accuracy, helping students to make geographical connections between places and sites.
Chapter 23: High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain has a new sequence of regions and individual artists.
Chapter 28: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America, 1870-1900 has been extensively revised.
Chapter 31: Contemporary Art Worldwide features many new artworks and buildings by artists and architects, including: Sandow Birk, Martha Rosler, Fernando Botero, Zhang Xiaogang, Helen Oji, Elizabeth Murray, Yayoi Kusama, El Anatsui, Anish Kapoor, Do-Ho Suh, Zaha Hadid, and Norman Foster.
Chapter 37: Africa, 1800-1980 presents the material according to a thematic focus.