ISBN: 0300077440
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date: 1999-02-08
Book Description
This volume presents eighty-nine influential writings that have helped to shape the Western canon of art. Ranging through art history from Pliny the Elder to current issues of gender, post-colonialism, and museum policy, the source texts and critical writings of this book illuminate such art history topics as the changing status of the artist, the challenge of the avant-garde, gender and art, and many others.
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ISBN: 0714829919
Author: Eric Fernie
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Release Date: 1995-06-01
Synopsis
Approaches to the history of art are probably more varied - and more debated - than in any other branch of history, and a study of different historical approaches is becoming an increasingly important component of many academic courses. This anthology of art-historical writings from the Renaissance to the present day has a particular focus, for key texts have been chosen in which the authors themselves reflects on the nature of their subject and on their own methods of inquiry. Included are texts by Vasari, Winckelmann, Burckhardt, Wolfflin, Panofsky, Gombrich and Pollock, among others. The introduction gives a summary of art-historical methods, and each of the texts is accompanied by a brief commentary which places it in context and discusses the issues it raises. Also provided is a critical glossary of art-historical terms, a brief biography of each of the historians, and a select bibliography.
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