Gardner's Art Through the Ages 16th Edition

MindTap & MindTap Mobile: Reimagined for the 21st century, the most widely read and respected art history text is available in MindTap, the customizable and mobile-optimized multi-media teaching and learning platform.

Improved Images: With more than 250 new images and enhancements to existing images, the 16th edition offers the highest quality reproduction images in terms of clarity and color-fidelity.

Visual Scaling: To help readers appreciate size and scale as a component in describing artwork, a scale is positioned next to images of paintings, statues, and other works, as well as architectural plans.

Full-Color Reconstructions: Exquisitely rendered by John Burge, these three-dimensional views of important architectural sites help readers imagine these sites as they once existed.

"Big Picture Features: "The Big Picture" full-page synopsis concludes every chapter, reinforcing key topics and representative artworks from each historical period.

MindTap Success: Take art history to new and interactive heights with nearly 1,500 high-resolution images, 300 video clips, exercises and quizzes, self-study tools, a glossary and audio pronunciation guide, Google Earth coordinates, and other resources.

Architecture videos in MindTap: Students experience "being really there" by taking a virtual tour of significant monuments and sites while learning more about interior and exterior features and details.

Expert Storytelling: Award-winning scholar Fred Kleiner blends art history with rich stories and clear organization, making the 16th edition easier for students to understand than other texts.

Additional Art: Always the dependable, go-to resource, the 16th edition features more works of art and architecture than any competing title.

Mobile-Optimized Flashcards: Students can review key concepts and works of art on the go with the MindTap Mobile App.

Expanded Asia: Additional discussions in chapters 13 and 16 illustrate Southeast Asian art and architecture with great depth.

Enhanced Focus: Two new chapters separate European and American art and architecture from 1900 to 1945, giving these topics the attention they deserve.

Living Artists: A chapter on Contemporary Art Worldwide features new works by living artists, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Sokari Douglas Camp, Damien Hirst and Doris Salcedo.

Global Locators: Using Google Earth coordinates for sites and the provenance of artwork discussed in the text offers a virtual tour of art through the ages.

New Debates: "A Second Opinion” essays introduce students to current debates in the history of art and architecture, emphasizing the ever-changing dynamic of the art world.