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0205714579 / 9780205714575 Art: A Brief History (with MyArtsLab with Pearson eText Student Access Code Card), 4/ePackage consists of:0136059090 / 9780136059097 Art: A Brief History0205768849 / 9780205768844 MyArtsLab with Pearson eText Student Access Code CardArt: A Brief History provides students with the most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey text on the market. The most popular choice for the one-semester survey market, Art: A Brief History is a condensation of the best-seller, Art History.This new edition of Art: A Brief History is the result of a happy and productive collaboration between two scholar-teachers (Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren) who share a common vision that survey courses on the history of art should be filled with as much enjoyment as erudition, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts.Like its predecessors, this new edition seeks to balance formal and iconographic analysis with contextual art history in order to craft interpretations that will engage a diverse student population. A such, throughout the text, the visual arts are treated as part of a larger world, in which geography, politics, religion, economics, philosophy, social life, and the other fine arts are related components of a vibrant and cultural landscape.NEW! MyArtsLab will be available with Art: A Brief History, 4/e for January 2010 classes! www.myartslab.com. Save time, Improve results. MyArtsLab is a robust online learning environment providing you and your students with the following resources:* Complete and dynamic e-book* Illustrated and printable flashcards* Unique “Closer Look” tours of over 125 key works of art* Pre-and post-tests for every chapter of the book* Customized study plan that helps students focus in on key areas* Primary Sources with critical thinking questions* Writing Tutorials for the most common writing assignmentsAvailable at no additional charge when packaged with t