Glubok, Shirley

Discussions of colonial paintings, buildings, and household objects trace the history of art in colonial America.

Discusses how the paintings, architecture, furniture, sculpture, and other visual arts produced from 1776-1826 reflected the way of life in the new American nation.

Presents objects of Roman art--columns, statues, mosaics, portraits, reliefs, buildings, and murals--and explains how and why they were created.

The art of the Etruscans introduces the reader to an age which flourished twenty-five hundred years ago and which greatly influenced the Roman civilization.

Brief text and photographs of temples, ornaments, toys, jewelry, and weapons introduce the cultures of ancient Mexico's Indian civilizations--Aztec, Mixtec, Toltec, Olmec, and Zapotec.

Describes the masks, dolls, pipes, soapstone, and ivory carvings and graphics of the Eskimo. Also discusses how the carvers discover the shapes in an ivory tusk through humming and singing.

Discussions of colonial paintings, buildings, and household objects trace the history of art in colonial America.

This introduction to Japanese art discusses the meaning of various symbols, the influence of religion on art, and makes art a part of every day life in Japan.