Art History: The Basics - Diana Newall, Grant Pooke

Art History: The Basics

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2007
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-37308-1 (ISBN)
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Offers an introduction for the undergraduate approaching the history of art. This book provides 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? And, what connects art with psychoanalysis, semiotics and Marxism?
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.

Grant Pooke lectures in the History & Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent. He is co-author of Teach Yourself Art History (2003) and the author of Francis Klingender 1907–1955: An Iconographer Out of Time (2007). Diana Newall completed her doctoral studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Previously an authoring consultant for the Open University’s Teach&Learn project, Diana works as a freelance lecturer and writer.

Art and Art Histories.  Formalism and Art.  An Introduction to Art and Social Meaning.  Marxism, Art and Aesthetics.  Art and Gender.  Art, Sex and Psychobiography.  Semiotics, Signs and Simulacra.  Art Histories and Postmodernisms

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.11.2007
Reihe/Serie The Basics
Zusatzinfo 30 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 295 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10 0-415-37308-5 / 0415373085
ISBN-13 978-0-415-37308-1 / 9780415373081
Zustand Neuware
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