Art Theory
Subtitle: An Historical Introduction
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781405107075
Subjects: Baroque art; Design styles: from c 1900 -; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400; Renaissance art; Theory of art; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - General; ART_HISTORY; Art / History / General; Criticism
First sentence: Ancient Greece and Rome produced a large and varied literature about the visual arts, but little is left of it, and the only theoretical text to survive in its entirety is the treatise On Architecture by Vitruvius.