ART HISTORY provides students with the most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey text on the market.  These hallmarks make ART HISTORYthe choice for instructors who seek to actively engage their students in the study of art.    This new edition of ART HISTORY is the result of a happy and productive collaboration between two scholar-teachers (Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren) who share a common vision that survey courses on the history of art should be filled with as much enjoyment as erudition, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts.    Like its predecessors, this new edition seeks to balance formal and iconographic analysis with contextual art history in order to craft interpretations that will engage a diverse student population.  Throughout the text, the visual arts are treated as part of a larger world, in which geography, politics, religion, economics, philosophy, social life, and the other fine arts are related components of a vibrant and cultural landscape.   Art History Portable Edition offers exactly the same content as Art History, Fourth Edition but in smaller individual booklets for maximum student portability.  The combined six segment set consists of four booklets that correspond to major periods in Western art and two that cover global art.  Each book is available individually, making them ideal for courses focused on individual periods.

Table of Contents:
BRIEF CONTENTS   CONTENTS vii   Chapter 8 ISLAMIC ART 261 Chapter 9 ART OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA BEFORE 1200 291 Chapter 10 CHINESE AND KOREAN ART BEFORE 1279 325 Chapter 11 JAPANESE ART BEFORE 1333 355 Chapter 12 ART OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE 1300 377 Chapter 13 EARLY AFRICAN ART 403   CONTEMPORARY WORLD MAP GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY CREDITS INDEX   DETAILED CONTENTS   CONTENTS vii   CHAPTER 8 ISLAMIC ART 261 ISLAM AND EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY 262 ART AND ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 265 Early Architecture 265 THE LATER PERIOD 270 Architecture of the Mediterranean 271 Architecture of the East 275 Portable Arts 276 The Arts of the Book 279 Manuscript Painting 280 ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE THREE EMPIRES 282 The Ottoman Empire 282 The Safavid Dynasty 285 Mughal Dynasty 288 THE MODERN ERA 289 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS The Five Pillars of Islam 267 THE OBJECT SPEAKS The Great Mosque of Cordoba 268 A CLOSER LOOK A Mamluk Glass Oil Lamp 273 ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE Arches 271 TECHNIQUE Ornament 264 Carpet Making 286   CHAPTER 9 ART OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA BEFORE 1200     291 THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT 292 INDUS CIVILIZATION 292 THE VEDIC PERIOD 295 THE MAURYA PERIOD 295 THE PERIOD OF THE SHUNGAS AND EARLY ANDHRAS 298 Stupas 298 Buddhist Rock-Cut Halls 302 THE KUSHAN AND LATER ANDHRA PERIODS 302 The Gandhara Style 303 The Mathura Style 303 The Southeast Indian Style 305 THE FOURTH THROUGH SEVENTH CENTURIES 306 Buddhist Sculpture 306 Painting 306 The Early Northern Temple 308 Monumental Narrative Reliefs 309 The Early Southern Temple 312 THE EIGHTH THROUGH THE FOURTEENTH CENTURIES 312 The Monumental Northern Temple 313 The Monumental Southern Temple 317 The Bhakti Movement in Art 318 ART OF SOUTHEAST ASIA 319 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS Buddhism 297 Hinduism 298 Mudras 304 Meaning and Ritual in Hindu Temples and Images 310 THE OBJECT SPEAKS Shiva Nataraja of the Chola Dynasty 314 A CLOSER LOOK Descent of the Ganges Relief, Mamallapuram 313 ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE Stupas and Temples 301   CHAPTER 10 CHINESE AND KOREAN ART BEFORE 1279 325 THE MIDDLE KINGDOM 326 NEOLITHIC CULTURES 326 Painted Pottery Cultures 326 Liangzhu Culture 326 BRONZE AGE CHINA 328 Shang Dynasty 328 Zhou Dynasty 329 THE CHINESE EMPIRE: QIN DYNASTY 332 HAN DYNASTY 332 Philosophy and Art 333 Architecture 335 SIX DYNASTIES 335 Painting 336 Calligraphy 337 Buddhist Art and Architecture 338 SUI AND TANG DYNASTIES 338 Buddhist Art and Architecture 339 Figure Painting 343 SONG DYNASTY 344 Philosophy: Neo-Confucianism 345 Northern Song Painting 345 Southern Song Painting and Ceramics 348 THE ARTS OF KOREA 350 The Three Kingdoms Period 350 The Unified Silla Period 352 Goryeo Dynasty 352 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS Chinese Characters 331 Daoism 334 Confucius and Confucianism 337 THE OBJECT SPEAKS The Silk Road during the Tang Period 342 A CLOSER LOOK Rubbing of a stone relief 335 ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE Pagodas 345 TECHNIQUE Piece-Mold Casting 329   CHAPTER 11 JAPANESE ART BEFORE 1333  355 PREHISTORIC JAPAN 356 Jomon Period 356 Yayoi Period 356 Kofun Period 356 ASUKA PERIOD 359 Horyuji 360 NARA PERIOD 361 HEIAN PERIOD 363 Esoteric Buddhist Art 363 Pure Land Buddhist Art 365 Secular Painting and Calligraphy 367 KAMAKURA PERIOD 370 Pure Land Buddhist Art 371 Zen Buddhist Art 375 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS Writing, Language, and Culture 357 Buddhist Symbols 362 Arms and Armor 371 THE OBJECT SPEAKS Daruma, Founder of Zen 374 A CLOSER LOOK The Tale of Genji 368 TECHNIQUE Joined-Block Wood Sculpture 366 RECOVERING THE PAST The Great Buddha Hall 364   CHAPTER 12 ART OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE 1300 377 THE NEW WORLD 378 MESOAMERICA 378 The Olmec 378 Teotihuacan 381 The Maya 384 CENTRAL AMERICA 390 SOUTH AMERICA: THE CENTRAL ANDES 391 Chavin de Huantar 391 The Paracas and Nazca Cultures 392 The Moche Culture 393 NORTH AMERICA 395 The East 395 The North American Southwest 397 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS Maya Writing 385 The Cosmic Ballgame 389 THE OBJECT SPEAKS Rock Art 400 A CLOSER LOOK Maya Stela 387 TECHNIQUE Andean Textiles 394   CHAPTER 13 EARLY AFRICAN ART 403 THE LURE OF ANCIENT AFRICA 404 AFRICA–THE CRADLE OF ART AND CIVILIZATION 404 AFRICAN ROCK ART 404 Saharan Rock Art 405 SUB-SAHARAN CIVILIZATIONS 406 Nok 407 Igbo-Ukwu 408 Ife 409 Benin 410 OTHER URBAN CENTERS 416 Jenné 416 Great Zimbabwe 417 Aksum and Lalibela 419 Kongo Kingdom 419 EXPORTING TO THE WEST 421 BOXES ART AND ITS CONTEXTS The Myth of “Primitive” Art 406 Southern African Rock Art 408 THE OBJECT SPEAKS A Warrior Chief Pledging Loyalty 414 A CLOSER LOOK Igbo-Ukwu 413 TECHNIQUE Lost-Wax Casting 415   CONTEMPORARY WORLD MAP GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY CREDITS INDEX