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 |  Art across Time, 2/e Laurie Schneider Adams
Feature Summary- The Adams Approach: Larger and more colorful images, art in its societal and cultural context, closer examination of fewer works-these are the elements of the unique approach that has garnered Art across Time such remarkable success.
- Windows on the World: Essays on the arts of Asia, Africa, Australia, South America, and Native America appear throughout the text. The essays are placed strategically to allow students to draw parallels between the arts of the West and the arts of other non-Western cultures.
- Boxes: A variety of boxed essays and asides supplement the text, offering background and excerpts from mythology, religion, literature, politics, and philosophy.
- Art in Context: Adams offers readers more than a chronology of art-she provides an understanding of the ideas, beliefs, and circumstances that inspire creativity. Throughout the narrative she explains political, economic, social, and personal concerns that influence the artists and inform their work.
- Women in Art: From models and icons to artists and patrons, Adams skillfully navigates between tokenism and polemic to investigate the role that women have played throughout the history of art.
- Methodologies: Beginning in the Introduction with an overview of major theories of art interpretation (formalist, biographical, iconographic, feminist) Art across Time suggests to students that there is more than one way to approach art. Specific works, such as The Arnolfini Portrait, are examined from a variety of methodological perspectives to illustrate this concept.
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education