Books for Introduction to the History of Art Courses

Learning to Look at Paintings

2nd Edition

By Mary Acton

Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you can develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are...

Published September 29th 2008 by Routledge

Art History: The Basics

By Grant Pooke, Diana Newall

Series: The Basics

Art History: The Basics is a concise and accessible introduction for the general reader and the undergraduate approaching the history of art for the first time at college or university. It will give you answers to questions like: What is art and art history? What are the main methodologies...

Published November 20th 2007 by Routledge

Art History: The Key Concepts

By Jonathan Harris

Series: Routledge Key Guides

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...

Published September 28th 2006 by Routledge