 Art Theory: An Historical Introduction
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0706-8
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328 pages
February 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Art Theory: An Historical Introduction is a unique survey of Western thought about art from ancient times to the present.
* Provides a lucid and lively narrative geared to the needs of the general reader and beginning student.
* Covers the major periods of Western art history: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the early modern period (Renaissance and Baroque), the Enlightenment, the nineteenth century, early twentieth-century modernism, and postmodernism.
* Relates theory to the practice as well as to the intellectual- and cultural-historical currents of each period, thus demonstrating the value of an historical approach to theoretical issues.
* Includes an extensive bibliography that provides a useful and up-to-date guide to the primary sources and secondary literature and 93 illustrations.
* Provides a lucid and lively narrative geared to the needs of the general reader and beginning student.
* Covers the major periods of Western art history: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the early modern period (Renaissance and Baroque), the Enlightenment, the nineteenth century, early twentieth-century modernism, and postmodernism.
* Relates theory to the practice as well as to the intellectual- and cultural-historical currents of each period, thus demonstrating the value of an historical approach to theoretical issues.
* Includes an extensive bibliography that provides a useful and up-to-date guide to the primary sources and secondary literature and 93 illustrations.
