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The company offered textbooks in over 20 subjects. [12] The company provided two types of books. In an "open" textbook, the contents of each chapter and the arrangement of chapters were defined by the company. In its "alternative" textbooks, the material was arranged in a way that was very similar to a specific, commercially available textbook.
According to feminist art historians Norma Broude and Mary Garrard: "Women artists in the 1950s and 1960s suffered professional isolation not only from one another, but also from their own history, in an era when women artists of the past had been virtually written out of the history of art, H.W. Janson's influential textbook, History of Art ...
Alexander, Charles, ed. (1995) Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts; Bernhard Cella(2012) Collecting Books: A selection of recent Art and Artists' Books produced in Austria, a YouTube Video that is part of the project. Bleus, Guy (1990) Art is Books; Borsuk, Amaranth (2018). The Book. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press
Ancient Arts of Central Asia; The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate; Art and Illusion; Art by Women in Florence; Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties; Art Deco of the 20s and 30s; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area (book) Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
Rose's first work of criticism was published in 1962. [13] She later noted that formalist art historian Michael Fried suggested she begin writing as a critic. [5] Rose is credited with popularizing the term Neo-Dada in the early 1960s; [14] Harrison notes that Rose's 1963 publication describing pop art as "neo-Dada" was her "entry into the field of contemporary American art criticism". [15]
The artist and art history professor H. W. Janson, reviewing the book for College Art Journal, remarked that it was "undoubtedly destined for a most successful career in the classroom". [8] He praised the book for its accessible language and selections free from Gombrich's own preferences, measuring the book against scholarly standards. [8]
He subsequently studied painting and art history at Yale University, where he received an M.A. in 1933. He taught at Washburn University of Topeka in 1933–34; at Newcomb College , Tulane University , New Orleans (1934–36); Hollins College , Roanoke, Virginia (1936–38); and the University of Virginia , Charlottesville (1938–50).
Gardner's Art through the Ages is an American textbook on the history of art, with the 2004 edition by Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya. The 2001 edition was awarded both a McGuffey award for longevity [1] and the "Texty" Award for current editions [2] by the Text and Academic Authors Association.