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Art history : the key concepts / Jonathan Harris.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge key guidesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.Description: xiv, 346 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780415319775 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709 HAR
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 709 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000287285
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 709 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 39002100369868

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Art History: The Key Concepts is a systematic, reliable and accessible reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture. Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of art, design and culture in general, it is an indispensable source of knowledge for all students, scholars and teachers.

Covering the development, present status and future direction of art history, entries span a wide variety of terms and concepts such as abstract expressionism, epoch, hybridity, semiology and zeitgeist.

Key features include:

a user-friendly A-Z format fully cross-referenced entries suggestions for further reading.

Engaging and insightful, as well as easy to follow and use, Art History: The Key Concepts builds a radical intellectual synthesis for understanding and teaching art, art history and visual culture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction Art History
  • The Key Concepts
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jonathan Harris is Professor of Art History at the University of Liverpool. He is author of Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried, and Clark (Routledge, 2005) and The New Art History: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2001). Jonathan Harris also wrote introductions to the four volumes of Arnold Hauser's 1951 classic The Social History of Art, republished by Routledge in 1999.

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