The Visual Arts: A History (5th Edition)

For a one/two-semester undergraduate Art History survey course. Hailed as the most up-to-date and comprehensive contextual text published in a single volume, this enlightening survey presents art history as an essential part of the development of humankind. Encompassing the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas, it covers painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture and photographyspanning from the primitive art of hunters some 30,000 years ago to high-tech video art of the 1990sand comes beautifully and generously illustrated with over 1,370 photographs, architectural plans, and color maps.Hugh Honour is the author of 'The Visual Arts: A History (5th Edition)', published 1999 under ISBN 9780130957900 and ISBN 0130957909.