Art theory
Subtitle: an historical introduction
By: Robert Williams.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781405184144; 9781405175531
Subjects: Art -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of plates; title: List of figures; title: Introduction; title: 1. Antiquity and the Middle Ages; title: The shield of Achilles; title: Imitation and knowledge; title: Beauty; title: Rhetoric; title: Word and world; title: 2. The early modern period; title: Craftsmen and theorists; title: Humanism; title: The academic system; title: 3. The Enlightenment; title: The eighteenth century; title: Radical idealism; title: 4. The nineteenth century; title: The crisis of the academy; title: Impressionism; title: Absolute art exists at last?; title: Ruskin and the aesthetes; title: 5. The early twentieth century; title: Beyond nature; title: Beyond reason; title: American modern; title: 6. Postmodernism; title: The critique of culture; title: The phenomenology of signs; title: Future present; title: Sources and suggestions for further reading; title: Index.