Art Theory: An Historical Introduction
By Robert Williams.
Description
"Art Theory: An Historical Introduction" is a unique survey of Western thought about art from ancient times to the present. This book provides a lucid and lively narrative geared to the needs of the general reader and beginning student. It covers the major periods of Western art history: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the early modern period (Renaissance and Baroque), the Enlightenment, the nineteenth century, early twentieth-century modernism, and postmodernism. The book relates theory to the practice as well as to the intellectual- and cultural-historical currents of each period...
ISBN(s)
1405107073, 9781405107075