Art history's history

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Art history's history

Vernon Hyde Minor

Prentice Hall, c2001

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

For freshman/senior-level courses in Art History, Introduction to Humanities, Critical Theory in the Humanities, Theory and Methodology, and Art Appreciation. Written in jargon-free, reader-friendly language, this is one of the first volumes to make art historical theory accessible to those at the introductory level.

Table of Contents

I. THE ACADEMY. II. WHAT IS ART? ANSWERS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 1. Ancient Theory. 2. Medieval Theory: Christianity, the Human, the Divine. 3. The Renaissance (1300-1600). 4. Nature, the Ideal, and Rules in Seventeenth-Century Theory. III. THE EMERGENCE OF METHOD AND MODERNISM IN ART HISTORY. 5. Johann J. Winckelmann and Art History. 6. Empiricism. 7. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) 8. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). 9. Alois Riegl (1858-1905). 10. Heinrich Woelfflin (1864-1945). 11. Visual Supremacy: Connoisseurship, Style, Formalism. 12. Sociological and Marxist Perspectives. 13. The New Art History and Visual Culture. 14. Feminism. 15. Reading Art History: Word, Image, Iconology, Semiotics. 16. Deconstruction. 17. Psychoanalysis and Art History. 18. Culture and Art History. 19. Influence, Originality, Greatness: A Case for Intertextuality. Credits. Index.

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  • NCID
    BA5125486X
  • ISBN
    • 0130851337
  • LCCN
    00035986
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Upper Saddle River, N.J.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 228 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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