A main text or supplement for courses in Art History or Art Appreciation. Written by an eminent authority in the field, this text teaches the history of art through the history of the artist – exploring the broad range of artist-types, surveying the roles and social status of artists, and revealing how the various artistic roles are alive and active today.
Edmund Burke Feldman is Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Georgia. He holds degrees from Syracus University, UCLA, and Columbia University and has taught at Carnegie-Mellon University, the State University of New York, Ohio State University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Feldman is an Associate of the National Humanities Faculty and is past president of the National Art Education Association.