"... extensively revised and expanded 14th edition of Gardner's Art through the Ages: the Western Perspective, which, like the enhanced 13th edition, is a hybrid art history textbook- ..."--P. xi.
"The 14th edition of Art through the Ages is available in several different traditional paper formats- a single hardcover volumes; two paperback volumes ...; a four-volume 'backpack' set; and an interactive e-book version"--P. xii.
"This text is also available as a Comprehensive volume and a four-volume Backpack Edition"--P. [4] of cover.
Descriptions based on vol. 1.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Volume I. What is art history? ; Art before history ; Mesopotamia and Persia ; Egypt under the Pharaohs ; The prehistoric Aegean ; Ancient Greece ; The Etruscans ; The Roman Empire ; Late Antiquity ; Byzantium ; The Islamic World ; Early Medieval Europe ; Romanesque Europe ; Gothic Europe ; Late Medieval Italy -- volume. II. Late Medieval Italy ; Late Medieval and early Renaissance northern Europe ; The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy ; Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy ; High Renaissance and Mannerism in northern Europe and Spain ; The Baroque in Italy and Spain ; The Baroque in northern Europe ; Rococo to Neoclassicism : the 18th century in Europe and America ; Romanticism, Realism, photography : Europe and America, 1800 to 1870 ; Impressionism, Post-impressionism, Symbolism : Europe and America, 1870 to 1900 ; Moderism in Europe and America, 1900 to 1945 -- Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980 ; Contemporary art worldwide