Textbook
Art Theory: An Historical Introduction, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-1-4051-7553-1
Paperback
344 pages
March 2009, ©2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Indispensable reading for both art lovers and students, Art
Theory, 2nd Edition explores Western thought about art from
ancient times to the post-modern period. Wide-ranging and
exceptionally balanced in its analysis, Art History relates
theory to the practice as well as to the intellectual and
cultural-historical currents of each period.
- This new edition expands the original to include more indepth
coverage of contemporary art.
- Newly updated bibliography and suggestions for further
reading
- Six chapters covering 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.
- Geared to the needs of the general reader and beginning students