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Diana Newall - Art History: The Basics - 9780415856614 - V9780415856614
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Art History: The Basics

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Description for Art History: The Basics Paperback. Series: The Basics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129. .

Now in its second edition, this volume is an accessible introduction to the history of art. Using an international range of examples, it provides the reader with a toolkit of concepts, ideas and methods relevant to understanding art history.

This new edition is fully updated with colour illustrations, increased coverage of non-western art and extended discussions of contemporary art theory. It introduces key ideas, issues and debates, exploring questions such as:

  • What is art and what is meant by art history?
  • What approaches and methodologies are used to interpret and evaluate art?
  • How have ideas regarding medium, ... Read more
  • What perspectives can psychoanalysis, semiotics and social art histories bring to the study of the discipline?
  • How are the processes of postcolonialism, decolonisation and globalisation changing approaches to art history?

Complete with helpful subject summaries, a glossary, suggestions for future reading and guidance on relevant image archives, this book is an ideal starting point for anyone studying art history as well as general readers with an interest in the subject.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
The Basics
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415856614
SKU
V9780415856614
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Ref
99-1

About Diana Newall
Diana Newall is a Staff Tutor and an Associate Lecturer in Art History at The Open University and a Consultant Lecturer for Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She is co-author of The Chronology of Pattern (2011), has published on Cretan art and is editor of Art and Its Global Histories, A Reader (2017). Grant Pooke is an Honorary Senior Fellow ... Read more

Reviews for Art History: The Basics
The second edition of Art History: The Basics continues the authors’ investments in making art history accessible to a variety of 21st-century readers. Clear and cogent, it reconsiders who and what "the basics" of art history are by freshening up the canon of intellectual debates, methodologies, and interpretations that form art history’s discourse in the west and incorporating more recent ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Art History: The Basics


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