Art Past Art Present Author:David Wilkins The first edition of 'Art Past, Art Present' set the standard as the first fully integrated survey of art history. This fifth edition retains the unique chronological presentation in compact units, and also comes with an interactive art history CD-ROM. — HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEW EDITION This new fifth edition of Art Past Art Present builds on its re... more »putation for balanced coverage of global art, with new sect in Chapter 3 "Ancient Art," on the Olmec in Mesoamerica, Nomadic Art in Siberia, the Han Dynasty in China, and Dongson Culture in Vietnam. Chapter 4, "Art from 200-1400," no", includes Moai Ancestor Figures from Polynesia, an The Great Mosque at Jenne, while later chapters see new units on Machu Picchu, The Taj Mahal, and eighteenth-century art in Korea. Coverage of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has been comprehensively revised and expanded, in Chapter 10 "Art from 1900-1949," Chapter 11 "Art from 1950-1999," and the newly created Chapter 12 "Art in the Nee Millennium," which includes such works as Mariko Mori's Wave UFO, and Bill Viola's Five Angels for the Millennium.« less