A World Perspective of Art History: Ancient Art History from the First Artists to the 14th Century - Volume One provides students with a worldwide, integrated introduction to art. The book features a distinct emphasis on women, minorities, and civilizations around the world using a coordinated time sequence and comparing art in multiple cultures simultaneously. Students discover art and culture from a global perspective and are encouraged to connect their own cultures with key learnings. The material is presented in historical time sequences based on the rise and fall of various civilizations and how they created art and architecture during that time. Students are introduced to the early art of around 50,000 BCE and encouraged to consider why these original artists created their works. Additional units progress chronologically and show how art evolved in step with developed settlements. The book introduces great structures erected during the Bronze Age and demonstrates how the Iron Age influenced the art of ancient Greece. Students read about trade, the rise of empires, the dawn of deities, and how each of these historical developments profoundly impacted the type of art created during each time period. The final unit focuses on the end of ancient civilizations. Featuring a uniquely inclusive approach, A World Perspective of Art History is an ideal resource for courses in art history and art appreciation.

Creative Art: Methods and Materials educates readers about a variety of art methods and the ways different civilizations have used them in artistic expression. Each of the fourteen chapters is designed around a specific art method and material, and includes examples of art works and the artists who created them. Students learn about bronze casting, stone carving, clay sculpture, woodcuts and posters, glass work, and installation art. Each method is matched to artists both ancient and modern. Rather than adhering to a standard approach that focuses on white, male, European artists, the book broadens the student's perspective by including often overlooked female artists. Global in approach and comprehensive in coverage of arts forms, representations, and styles throughout history, Creative Art has been developed for sixteen-week courses in art appreciation, or introductory survey courses in art history.

Five women from different backgrounds and countries come together in one place when they are older. What events in the past shaped their lives? How did they live day and day? Where did they come from? Why did they end up in one place? How did they interact with others? All of these questions unfold in the stories of the five women and demonstrate how our past affects our actions and what we do.

Samantha, Abby, and Jake turn a boring summer day into a day of discovery. An old trunk, long forgotten, is found when Jake hits the ball too hard. What is in the trunk and how it gets there is the mystery they uncover. One of the things in the old trunk is a quilt. You can use the pattern in the back to make a quilt block like the quilt found in the trunk.

Follow the adventures of Samantha, Abby, and Jake as they learn about Mandy who is on a wagon train to the west. Mandy and her friends walk by the wagons and work along the trail. Mandy also works on a quilt along the way. You can use the pattern in the back to make a quilt block like Mandy did.

Samantha, Abby, and Jake take go on a field trip from school and discover gold. They find a letter from a boy who lived in the gold camps of California and learn how he lived and the adventures of the gold camp. His grandmother sent him an unexpected package with a special quilt. You can use the pattern in the back to make a quilt block like the quilt Zachary received.

Samantha, Abby and Jake drop by the local shopping center and notice a quilt store with an unusual quilt in the window. They go in the store and ask about the quilt and one of the workers tells them a story about her uncle who was in World War II and what happened to him and the quilt. You can use the pattern in the back to make a quilt block like the quilt Private George carried in the war.