Advantages that Make HWA the Ideal One Semester Text

• NEW! Online Learning Center. This interactive website includes audio pronunciation guides, an online imagebank, chapter objectives, links for further research, interactive discussion questions and quizzes, and the complete Instructor's Manual.
• NEW! More Color. 70% of the images are in color, up from 53% in the second edition.
• NEW! Chapter-Ending Timelines. These illustrated study aides provide a chronological list of every artwork discussed in the chapter and summarize the cultural events of the period.
• NEW! A Discussion of Methodologies introduces students to the major approaches of art historical inquiry.
• NEW! Five "Beyond the West" Essays have been added to the text to introduce students to the art of the world at points of cross-cultural contact (Africa and the European avante-garde or Japan and the Impressionists, for example) or to highlight thematic parallels. These boxes provide a sense of the range of world art, and remind readers that Western art is only one of many historical narratives.
• Large Images. The large format of the reproductions in A History of Western Art is intended to encourage careful observation and to engage readers visually with the works. Further, some of the sculpture and buildings in the text are illustrated with more than one view to give readers a sense of their three-dimensional reality.
• Boxed Essays offer background from mythology, religion, literature, politics, and philosophy, as well as media and techniques. Examples include: mosaic techniques in Christian art, an overview of the ancient Egyptian gods, commentary on art and artists from Plato to Ruskin, and excerpts from ancient and modern literary works.
• Art in Context. In addition to analysis of style, Adams' A History of Western Art discusses society and culture to give students a deeper understanding of the context in which works were created.
• Coverage of Women - from models and icons to artists and patrons - is thoroughly integrated from the Paleolithic to the present.