Glubok, Shirley

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.

Presents various objects of Greek art--vases, statues, buildings, reliefs, friezes, and ornaments--and explains how they were made and used, and aspects of the culture which they present.

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

Examples of primitive African art, from many different tribes, with explanations of their use and meaning. Includes statues, masks, reliefs, headdresses, and household objects, made from ivory, gold, wood, bronze, and brass.

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.

Examples of primitive African art, from many different tribes, with explanations of their use and meaning. Includes statues, masks, reliefs, headdresses, and household objects, made from ivory, gold, wood, bronze, and brass.

A survey of the Old West as it was captured in the paintings, sculpture, and photographs of such artists as Charles Nahl, Frederic Remington, Edward Curtis, Thomas Eakins, and William Henry Jackson.

A lecturer to children at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City shows through text and photographs how the Egyptians lived before 3100 B.C. until Roman times.

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.