Discovering Art History is an in-depth, comprehensive approach to art. The program includes an extensive survey of Western art, studies of non-Western art, as well as an introduction to art appreciation. Engaging studio activities throughout the text are directly connected to chapter content. This outstanding art history program will show students how the visual arts serve to shape and reflect ideas, issues, and themes from the time of the first cave paintings to the twenty-first century.

• Chapter Organizers to help tailor instruction
• Visual resources with point-of-use correlations
• Multicultural and interdisciplinary connections
• Hundreds of additional inquiry and research-related exercises
• Contextual information to encourage discussion and in-depth understanding
• Higher-order thinking skills that promote critical and creative thinking
• Scope and sequence

• The Discovering Art History Program
• Program Structure
• Scope and Sequence
• Student Edition Pages
• What Is Art?
• Your Guide to Art

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Learning about Art
Chapter 2: Visual Communication
Chapter 3: Common Denominators
Chapter 4: Art of the Non-Western World
Chapter 5: Beginnings of Western Art
Chapter 6: Greek and Roman Art
Chapter 7: Religious Conviction
Chapter 8: Romanesque and Gothic Art
Chapter 9: The Italian Renaissance
Chapter 10: Renaissance in the North
Chapter 11: Baroque and Rococo
Chapter 12: Three Opposing Views
Chapter 13: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
Chapter 14: A Half-Century of “Isms”
Chapter 15: American Art 1900–1950
Chapter 16: Architecture after 1900
Chapter 17: Art from the Fifties to the Present
Reference Section
Index

Teacher’s Reference Material
Text Resources
Artists and Their Works
Art Materials
Art Suppliers
Safety in the Classroom
Multicultural Art Education
Special Needs
The National Visual Arts Standards