History of the history of art

Author: Winifred Haydée Minear [USA]
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: What is art history? What kind of thoughts, institutions, and practices form its background? How did it become what it is today? What research methods does it employ? This book provides a systematic exposition of the discipline of art history; Part one reviews the development of art history as a discipline from the Middle Ages to the modern era; Part two discusses the development of art theory from Plato to the 18th century; Part three studies the methodology of art history, primarily focusing on various research methods in art history from Winckelmann to postmodernism. This book is currently the most comprehensive classic monograph on the study of art history, hailed in the field of art history in Europe and America as the "Bible of Art History."