Laurie Schneider Adams is Professor of Art History at John Jay College, City University of New York. She is the author of A History of Western Art and Looking at Art, and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Source: Notes in the History of Art.
Laurie Schneider Adams has written an excellent introductory text on art, its history and its place in social life. It is clear, genuinely informative and likely to stimulate discussion. -- Richard Woodfield - Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Departments of Art History at the Univers In remarkably clear and precise prose, Laurie Schneider Adams sets the story of art, how it arose and what its uses are ... a lively account of central human enterprise.-- Mary Wiseman - Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Brooklyn University and the City Unviersity o