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Author:   Robert Williams (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.789kg
ISBN:  

9781405184144

ISBN 10:   1405184140
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   13 February 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Plates vii List of Figures viii Introduction 1 1 Antiquity and the Middle Ages 7 The Shield of Achilles 7 Imitation and Knowledge 18 Beauty 26 Rhetoric 35 Word and World 43 2 The Early Modern Period 55 Craftsmen and Theorists 55 Humanism 66 The Academic System 79 3 The Enlightenment 95 The Eighteenth Century 95 Radical Idealism 109 4 The Nineteenth Century 122 The Crisis of the Academy 122 Impressionism 135 “Absolute Art Exists at Last” 147 Ruskin and the Aesthetes 160 5 The Early Twentieth Century 176 Beyond Nature 176 Beyond Reason 192 American Modern 213 6 Postmodernism 231 The Critique of Culture 231 The Phenomenology of Signs 243 Future Present 261 Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading 279 Index 315

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[ Art Theory ] is a first-class introduction to the subject, revealing an unusual historical range, a command of diverse and often difficult ideas, and a natural flair for seeing the point--of art and of theory ... Robert Williams has written a book I will keep on my shelf for rereading and I look forward to further works by him. John Haldane in The Art Book

[Art Theory] is a first-class introduction to the subject, revealing an unusual historical range, a command of diverse and often difficult ideas, and a natural flair for seeing the point--of art and of theory ... Robert Williams has written a book I will keep on my shelf for rereading and I look forward to further works by him. John Haldane in The Art Book

Author Information

Robert Williams is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Art Theory and Culture in Sixteenth-century Italy: From Techne to Metatechne.

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