The History of the History of Art

Author: Minai
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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 I reviews the development of art history as a discipline from the Middle Ages to the modern era; Part II discusses the development of art theory from Plato to the 18th century; Part III 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 the discipline of art history, hailed in the field of art history in Europe and America as the "Bible of Art History."