Toward a Geography of Art
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 14, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780226133119
Subjects: Cultural studies; Geography; The Arts: General Issues; History - General; Study & Teaching; Art / Study & Teaching; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Art and geography; Art, Comparative; Historiography
First sentence: The term art as the concept is now used in the sense of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, etc.) was not specifically elaborated as such in antiquity; the modern definition of the visual arts is at most three centuries old.