Janson offered his readers a strong focus on Western art, an important consideration of technique and style, and a clear point of view. Kennedy occupied the White House, and Andy Warhol was an emerging artist. When Harry Abrams first published the History of Art in 1962, John F. Long established as the classic and seminal introduction to art of the Western world, the Eighth Edition of Janson's History of Art is groundbreaking. Experience the new Janson and re-experience the history of art. Rewritten and reorganized, this new edition weaves together the most recent scholarship, the most current thinking in art history, and the most innovative online supplements, including digital art library. The ways of thought underlying these tragedies can be found at the very foundation of Western history.įor courses in the History of Art. The intersections of these ideas with the world of power-the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, the Spanish Inquisition, the German Holocaust-are well known. The thrust of this tradition construes Judaism as an opposition, a danger often from within, to be criticized, attacked, and eliminated. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans Christians and Muslims of every period even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world. Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West. The story Nirenberg has to tell is not over.”-Adam Kirsch, Tablet This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. Anti Judaism The Western Tradition Book Review:
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