The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings.
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This survey of art theory in the context of Western visual art consists of 41 original essays written by experts in the field. Following an extensive introduction on the formation of modern art theory, the Companion is organized chronologically so that readers can trace developments of visual art theory, from Classical and Medieval sources and modern conceptions of art as they have been theorized since the Renaissance, through to some current theoretical preoccupations. In addition to outlining and describing various theoretical positions, the book's chapters articulate some assumptions that underpin them and raise more general questions about the nature of theorizing about art. In this way the Companion provides both an introduction to main themes of Western art theory and a source for critical enquiry into the purposes, possibilities and limitations of theory in the context of artistic practice. The work can also be used alongside the three Art in Theory anthologies published by Blackwell, as a further art theory resource.
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This survey of art theory in the context of Western visual art consists of 41 original essays written by experts in the field. Following an extensive introduction on the formation of modern art theory, the Companion is organized chronologically so that readers can trace developments of visual art theory, from classical and medieval sources and modern conceptions of art as they have been theorized since the Renaissance, through to some current theoretical preoccupations.
In addition to outlining and describing various theoretical positions, the book's chapters articulate some assumptions that underpin them and raise more general questions about the nature of theorizing about art. In this way the Companion provides both an introduction to main themes of Western art theory and a source for critical enquiry into the purposes, possibilities and limitations of theory in the context of artistic practice.
The work can also be used alongside the three Art in Theory anthologies published by Blackwell, as a further art theory resource.
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sculptural tactility, feminist art theory, hermeneutical aesthetics, denotation systems, explanatory vacuity, critical art history, paragone debate, central angel, tactile reception, existential graphs, inverted perspective, feminist art history, sculpted objects, false attachments, classificatory sense, reception aesthetics, conceptual art, academic doctrine, picture primitives, institutional theory, mimetic faculty, drawing systems, della pittura, eccellenti pittori, icon painting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, Holy Trinity, University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Walter Benjamin, Blackwell Publishers, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Loeb Classical Library, Partisan Review, Clement Greenberg, Marcel Duchamp, Abstract Expressionism, Alois Riegl, Leonardo da Vinci, German Romanticism, Johns Hopkins University Press, Kegan Paul, Noa Noa, United States, Leon Battista Alberti, Manchester University Press New!
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- The Story of Art, 16th Edition by E.H. Gombrich on 8 pages
- The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault on 5 pages
- The Critical Historians of Art by Professor Michael Podro on 4 pages
- Bakhtin and the Visual Arts (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) by Deborah J. Haynes on 4 pages
- The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art (The Wrightsman Lectures, V. 9) by E.H. Gombrich on 4 pages
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- Art Theory: An Historical Introduction by Robert Williams in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research (Innovations in Art and Design) by Katy Macleod on page 14, and Back Matter
- Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype Within Images And Other Objects (Histories of Vision) (Histories of Vision) by Robert Maniura on page 156, and Back Matter
- Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 by Simon Leung in Back Matter
- Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by Nicholas Davey in Back Matter
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