American Museum of Natural History, The Illustrated History of Humankind,
Vol.1, "The First Humans: Human Origin and History to 10,000 B.C.
Vol. II, "People of the Stone Age: Hunters-gatherers and Early Farmers"
Vol. III, "Old World Civilizations: The Rise of Cities and States"
Vol. IV, 'New World and Pacific Civilizations: Cultures of America,
Asia, and the Pacific"

Honour, Hugh and Fleming, John, The Visual Arts: A History, 3rd.Ed., Prentice Hall,
Englewood Cliffs. NJ. 1991.
Silver, Larry, Art in History, Prentice Hall, NJ., 1993.
Chadwick, Whitney, Women, Art and Society, Thames & Hudson, London, 1990.
(Includes chapter on Medieval Art)
Petersen, Karen and Wilson, J.J., Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the
Early Middle Ages to the 20th Century, Harper Row, NY., 1976.
Lippard, Lucy R., Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, Random House, Inc., 1990.
Lippard, Lucy R., Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory, The New Press, NY, 1983.

Harris, Roberta L., The World of the Bible, Thames & Hudson, London, 1995.
Akurgal, E., The Art of the Hittites, London, 1962.
Cook, J.M., The Persian Empire, Random House, Inc., 1963.
Jettmar, K., Art of the Steppes, London, 1967.
Legg, Stuart, The Barbarians of Asia: The Peoples of the Steppes from 1600 B.C.. Farrar, Strouse,
New York, 1970.

ART OF EGYPT

Hobson, Christine, The World of the Pharoahs: A Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt,
Thames & Hudson, London, 1995.
Silverman, David P., Ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press, New York, 1997.

ART OF THE AEGEAN, GREECE AND ROME

Marinatos, S. and Hirmer, M., Crete and Mycenae, Munich Ed., 1973
Cristofani, H., The Etruscans: A New Investigation, London, 1979.

EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ART

Weitzmann, K, and Kessler, H.L., The Frescoes of the Dura Synagogues
and Christian Art, Washington, D.C., 1990.
Matthews, G.,Byzantine Aesthetics, London, 1963.

THE ART OF ISLAM

Robinson, Francis, Ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World,
Cambridge University Press, London, 1996.

Arribas, A., The Iberians, London, 1964.
Focillon, H., The Art of the West in the Middle Ages (1938), London, 1963.
Carola, Leslie Conron, The Irish: A Treasury of Art and Literature,
Hugh Lawton Levin Assoc., Inc., NY 1993.
James, Simon, The World of the Celts, Thames & Hudson, London, 1995.
Henry, F., Irish Art, Ithaca, NY, 1970.
Wilson, 0.M. and Klindt-Jensen, 0., Viking Art, London, 1966.
Cahill, Thomas, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Doubleday, New York, 1995.
Herm, Gerard, The Celts: The People Who Came Ou t of the Darkness, Barnes and Noble, 1993.
 

NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS

Burland, Cottie, North American Indian Mythology, Reed International Books,
Barnes & Noble, NY 1996.
Thomas, David Hurst, The Native Americans: An Illustrated History, Turner Publishing, Inc.,
Atlanta, GA., 1993.
Newcomb, W.W., Jr., and Kirkland, Forrest, The Rock Art of Texas Indians, University of Austin
Press, Austin, TX., 1967.
Roosevelt, Anna and Smith, James G.E., Eds., The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas,
Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY., 1967.
Eaton, Linda B. and Brody, J.J., Native American Art of the Southwest, Publications International,
Lincolnwood, IL., 1993.
Newcomb, W.W., The Indians of Texas: From Prehistoric to Modern Times, University of
Texas Press, Austin, TX., 1961.
Deloria, Vine Jr., God is Red: A Native View of Religion, Fulcrum, Golden, CO., 1994.
Time-Life editors, The American Indians, multi-volume series, Time-Life, Alexandria, VA, 1994.

MESOAMERICAN ART

Coe, Michael D., The Maya, 5th Ed., Thames & Hudson, London, 1993.
Coe, Michael D., Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, Thames and Hudson, New York, NY.,
Fourth Ed., l994.
Johnson, Harmer, Guide to the Arts of the Americas, Rizzoli, NY 1992.
Markman, Roberta H. and Markman, Peter T., The Flayed God: The Mythology
of Mesoamerica, Harper Collins, San Francisco, 1992.
Highwater, Jamake, Native Land: Sagas~of the Indian Americas,
The Native Land Foundation, 1986;. Barnes & Noble, NY, 1995.
Smith, Michael E, The Aztecs, Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge, MA., 1996.
Florescano, Enrique, Memory, Myth and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence,
University of Texas Press, Austin, TX., 1994.
Pasztory, Esther, Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living, University of Oklahoma Press,
Norman, OK., 1997.
Sabloff, Jeremy A., The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya, Scientific American
Library, New York, 1990.
Braun, Barbara, Pre-Columbian Art and thePost-Columbian World: Ancient American Sources of Modern Art,
Abrams, NY, 1992.
Kelker, Nancy L., Ed., America Before Columbus: Pre-Columbian Art in the Collection of the San Antonio Museum Association, SAMoA, San Antonio, TX, 1985.

SOUTH AMERICAN AND CARRIBEAN ART

Hyams, Edward, and Ordish, George, The Last of the Incas: The Rise and Fall of an
American Empire, Barnes and Noble Books, 1996.
Heyerdahl, Thor, Pyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City, Thames and
Hudson, New York, NY., 1995.
Rouse, Irving, The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People who Greeted Columbus, Yale
University Press, New Haven, 1992.

Wheeler, R.E.M., The Indus Civi1ization, Cambridge, 1968.
Zimmer, H.R., The Art of Indian Asia, Princeton, 1960.
Harle, J.C., The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent, Harmondsworth, 1985.

THE ART OF CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, The Cambridge Illustrated History of China,
Cambridge University Press, London, 1996.
Christie, Anthony, Chinese Mythology, Reed International Books, London, Rev. Ed., 1983.
Baker, J.S., Japanese Art, London, 1984.
Suzuki, Daisetz T., Zen and Japanese Culture, Princeton University Press, 1959.

THE ART OF AFRICA

Wassing, Rene S., African Art: Its Background and Traditions, Konecky and Konecky, NY, 1968.
Parrinder, Geoffrey, African Mythology, Reed International Books, 1996.
Eyo, E. and Willett, F., Treasures of Ancient Nigeria, NY 1980.
Dark, P.J.C., An Introduction to Benin Art and Technology, Oxford, 1973.
Dubost, Jean-Claude, and Gonthier, JeanFrancois, eds., Black Africa: Masks, Sculpture, Jewelry, Terrail, Paris, 1992

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