Arts and Its Histories. A Reader
Edited By Steve Edwards at The Open University
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, U S A/London, 1999
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Trade Paperback. This vooume present eighty-nine influential texts that have played a significant role in shaping modern judgements and values about art. Emphasising the debates and ideological assumptions around the Western canon of art, the book ranges through art history from Pliny the Elder to current issues of gender, post-colonialism and museum policy. Contents: List of Contents. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction - Steve Edwards. Section One - Academies, Museums and Canons of Art. Section Two - The Changing Status of the Artist. Section Three - Gender and Art. Section Four - The Challenge of the Avant-Garde. Section Five - Views of Difference: Different Views of Art. Section Six - Contemporary Cultures of Display. Index. Illustrated. 336 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).
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- Title
- Arts and Its Histories. A Reader
- Author
- Edited By Steve Edwards at The Open University
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, U S A/London
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300077440
- ISBN 13
- 9780300077445
- Edition
- 2nd Impession
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Art and Antiques and Collectables
A general introduction to the book provides a survey of recent debates on the canon of Western art. The source texts and critical writings of the volume are then organized around six art history topics: academies, museums, and canons of art; the changing status of the artist; gender and art; the challenge of the avant-garde; views of difference; and contemporary cultures of display. The source texts, each prefaced by a short introduction with information about the author and guidelines for reading the text, include seminal writings by Vasari, Le Brun, and Baudelaire, among many others, as well as examples of different kinds of literature on art, a contract, a biography, an academic discourse. And the critical writings for each section of the book offer a variety of perspectives on art and revisions of art history.
This volume accompanies the undergraduate course “Art and its Histories” offered by the Open University.
Published in association with the Open University
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