Art History: The Key Concepts by Jonathan Harris

Art History: The Key Concepts by Jonathan Harris

Art History: The Key Concepts is a systematic, reliable and accessible reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture. Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of art, design and culture in general, it is an indispensable source of knowledge for all students, scholars and teachers.

Covering the development, present status and future direction of art history, entries span a wide variety of terms and concepts such as abstract expressionism, epoch, hybridity, semiology and zeitgeist.

Key features include:

• a user-friendly A-Z format
• fully cross-referenced entries
• suggestions for further reading.

Engaging and insightful, as well as easy to follow and use, Art History: The Key Concepts builds a radical intellectual synthesis for understanding and teaching art, art history and visual culture.

Jonathan Harris is Professor of Art History at the University of Liverpool. He is author of Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried, and Clark (Routledge, 2005) and The New Art History: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2001). Jonathan Harris also wrote introductions to the four volumes of Arnold Hauser’s 1951 classic The Social History of Art, republished by Routledge in 1999.

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ISBN 13	9780415319775
ISBN 10	0415319773
Title	Art History: The Key Concepts
Author	Jonathan Harris
Series	Routledge Key Guides
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2006-09-29
Number of pages	346
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