The Art of Art History

Description

New edition of this key guide to art history, which takes a critical reading of the field’s most innovative and influential texts over the past two centuries, including the most important new writing on the most recent work in a variety of new media.

A selection of the most influential and innovative writing on art history of the past two centuries
Includes over thirty readings from all the major writers on art history, from Winckelmann to Foucault
Each section focuses on a key issue, with an editorial introduction to provide background information, further reading, and critical elucidations of the issues at stake
New updated and expanded edition includes sixteen newly incorporated extracts by key figures, from Giorgio Vasari to Walter Benjamin