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21. Visual Literacy

    Edited by James Elkins

    What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become "visually literate," what does that mean in practical terms? The essays gathered here examine a host of issues surrounding...

    Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge
22. The Theory of Citrasutras in Indian Painting

    A Critical Re-evaluation of their Uses and Interpretations

    By Isabella Nardi

    Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

    The study of technical treatises in Indian art has increasingly attracted much interest. This work puts forward a critical re-examination of the key Indian concepts of painting described in the Sanskrit treatises, called citrasutras. In an in-depth and systematic analysis of the texts on the theory...

    Published July 13th 2006 by Routledge
23. Imagining the Present

    Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic

    Edited by Richard Kalina

    Series: Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture

    Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Alloway’s most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half of the twentieth century. Lawrence Alloway ranks among the most important critics of his time, and...

    Published February 7th 2006 by Routledge
24. Visual Studies

    A Skeptical Introduction

    By James Elkins

    In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. Then, with the skill and insight that have marked his successful books on art and visuality, Elkins takes the reader down a side road where...

    Published August 7th 2003 by Routledge
25. Art After Appropriation

    Essays on Art in the 1990s

    By John Welchman

    Beginning with the first comprehensive account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, Art After Appropriation suggests a matrix of inflections and refusals around the culture of taking or citation, each chapter loosely correlated with one year of...

    Published September 19th 2001 by Routledge
26. Theories of Art

    1. From Plato to Winckelmann

    By Moshe Barasch

    Published November 9th 2000 by Routledge