Details

Edition

Second edition.

Description

xxvi, 137 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

text txt rdacontent

still image sti rdacontent

unmediated n rdamedia

volume nc rdacarrier

Series

Very short introductions ; 102

Very short introductions ; 102.

Note

Previous edition: 2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-131) and index.

Contents

What is art history? -- Writing art history -- A global art history? -- Presenting art history -- Thinking about art history -- Reading art -- Looking at art.

Summary

Art History: A Very Short Introduction considers the issues, debates, and artefacts that make up art history. It explores the emergence of social histories of art and, using a wide range of images, it discusses key aspects of the discipline including how we write about, present, read, and look at art, and the impact this has on our understanding of art history. This second edition includes a new chapter on global art histories, considering how the traditional emphasis on periods and styles in art originated in Western art and can obscure other critical approaches and artwork from non-Western cultures.

Subject

Art.

Art -- History.

Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177

Kunst (DE-588)4114333-4

Kunstwissenschaft (DE-588)4120632-0

Genre/Form

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

ISBN

9780198831808 (paperback)

0198831803 (paperback)