Dimensions
156 x 228 x 17mm
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.
