Art history : the basics / Grant Pooke and Diana Newall.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Basics (Routledge (Firm))Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, c2008.Description: xxi, 263 p. : ill. ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415373098
  • 0415373093
  • 9780415373081
  • 0415373085
  • 0415309085
  • 9780415309080
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N7425 .P59 2008
Contents:
Art theories and art histories -- Formalism, modernism and modernity -- A world still to win : Marxism, art and art history -- Semiotics and poststructuralism -- Psychoanalysis, art and the hidden self -- Sex and sexualitites : representations of gender -- Exploring postmodernities -- Globalised proximities and perspectives
Summary: "Art History: The Basics is a concise and accessible introduction for the general reader and the undergraduate approaching the history of art for the first time at college or university. It will give you answers to questions like: What is art and art history? What are the main methodologies used to understand art? How have ideas about form, sex and gender shaped representation? What connects art with psychoanalysis, semiotics and Marxism? How are globalization and postmodernism changing art and art history? Each chapter introduces key ideas, issues and debates in art history, including information on relevant websites and image archives. Fully illustrated with an international range of artistic examples, Art History: The Basics also includes helpful subject summaries, further ideas for reading in each chapter, and a useful glossary for easy reference."--Publisher description
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-254) and index.

Art theories and art histories -- Formalism, modernism and modernity -- A world still to win : Marxism, art and art history -- Semiotics and poststructuralism -- Psychoanalysis, art and the hidden self -- Sex and sexualitites : representations of gender -- Exploring postmodernities -- Globalised proximities and perspectives

"Art History: The Basics is a concise and accessible introduction for the general reader and the undergraduate approaching the history of art for the first time at college or university. It will give you answers to questions like: What is art and art history? What are the main methodologies used to understand art? How have ideas about form, sex and gender shaped representation? What connects art with psychoanalysis, semiotics and Marxism? How are globalization and postmodernism changing art and art history? Each chapter introduces key ideas, issues and debates in art history, including information on relevant websites and image archives. Fully illustrated with an international range of artistic examples, Art History: The Basics also includes helpful subject summaries, further ideas for reading in each chapter, and a useful glossary for easy reference."--Publisher description

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