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Art History - the study of works of art and architecture. In the mid-19th cent., art history was raised to the status of an academic discipline by the Swiss Jacob Burckhardt, who related art to its cultural environment, and the German idealists Alois Riegl, Heinrich Wölfflin, and Wilhelm Worringer. The latter three saw art history as the analysis of forms and viewed art apart from any


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    Art History: A Very Short Introduction » Read Now

    by Dana Arnold. 125 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This clear and concise new introduction examines all the major debates and issues using a wide range of well-known examples. It discusses the challenge of using verbal and written language to analyse a visual form. Dana Arnold also examines the many different ways of writing about art, and the...
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    The History of Art History » Read Now

    by Udo Kultermann. 278 pgs.

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    ...The History of ART HISTORY -ii- The History of ART HISTORY UDO KULTERMANN ABARIS BOOKS 1993 Copyright 1993...VII Goethe as Art Historian 67 VIII Art History in Romanticism...
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    The New Art History: A Critical Introduction » Read Now

    by Jonathan Harris. 302 pgs.

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    The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years. Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the study of art which have been grouped loosely...
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    Art History and Its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline » Read Now

    by Elizabeth Mansfield. 329 pgs.

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    Art History and Its Institutions focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundations in the nineteenth century. From museums and universities to law courts, labour organizations and photography studios, contributors examine a range of...
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    Art History: An Anthology of Modern Criticism » Read Now

    by Wylie Sypher. 434 pgs.

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    ...ART HISTORY An Anthology of Modern Criticism ART HISTORY An Anthology Of Modern Criticism...for the selection from Principles of Art History by Heinrich Wolfflin...
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    Perspectives on Western Art, Vol. 1 » Read Now

    by Linnea H. Wren, Janine M. Carter. 302 pgs.

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    The purpose of this anthology is to unite the study of Western art history with the understanding of Western social and cultural history. Painting, sculpture, architecture, and other forms of the visual arts are, like literary documents, primary sources that reveal the thoughts and abilities of...
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    Perspectives on Western Art, Vol. 2 » Read Now

    by Linnea H. Wren. 440 pgs.

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    The purpose of this anthology is to unite the study of Western art history with the understanding of Western social and cultural history. Painting, sculpture, architecture, and other forms of the visual arts are, like literary documents, primary sources that reveal the thoughts and abilities of...
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    History of Classic Painting » Read Now

    by Germain Bazin, S. Beguin, M. De Gesne, Rosamund Frost, Andre Leclerc, Marc Loge, Frederick Moss. 358 pgs.

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    Medieval Art » Read Now

    by Marilyn Stokstad. 446 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s » Read Now

    by Irving Sandler. 636 pgs.

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    In this finely illustrated, major history of American and European art of the past quarter century, Irving Sandler shows how new directions in art emerged in the 1960s -- Post Minimal styles, Pattern and Decoration Painting, and New Image Painting -- through the 1980s -- Neo-Expressionism, Media...
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    Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism » Read Now

    by Sylvia Harrison. 280 pgs.

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    Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism examines the critical reception of Pop Art in America during the 1960s. Comparing the ideas of New York-based critics such as Leo Steinberg, Susan Sontag, and Max Kozloff, Sylvia Harrison demonstrates how their ideas bear a striking similarity to the body of...
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    Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century » Read Now

    by Chris Murray. 314 pgs.

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    Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an international panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to key approaches and...
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    The Lives of the Artists » Read Now

    by Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella, Giorgio Vasari. 598 pgs.

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    These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through...

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