Art
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An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art
Using the tools of the "new" art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art offers a richly textured, yet clear and logical, introduction to nineteenth-century art and culture. This textbook will provide readers with a basic historical framework of...
Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
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Learning to Look at Sculpture
This new book from Mary Acton is a perfect companion volume to Learning to look at Paintings and Learning to look at Modern Art. Like them it is primarily about looking – and particularly about the differences in the experience of looking at three-dimensional art. Covering all periods of Western...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Learning to Look at Paintings
2nd Edition
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
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Learning to Look at Modern Art
This companion volume to the author's Learning to Look at Paintings suggests that the best way to understand modern art is to look closely at it, and to consider the different elements that make up each art work: composition, space and form, light and colour, and subject matter. Engaging and...
Published May 26th 2004 by Routledge
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New Games
Postmodernism After Contemporary Art
Series: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts
Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at work by Dara...
Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Contemporary British Art
An Introduction
The last few decades have been among the most dynamic within recent British cultural history. Artists across all genres and media have developed and re-fashioned their practice against a radically changing social and cultural landscape – both national and global. This book takes a fresh look at...
Published September 23rd 2010 by Routledge
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Art History: The Basics
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 29th 2007 by Routledge
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Cross-Cultural Issues in Art
Frames for Understanding
Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples. Steven Leuthold discusses both contemporary and historical issues and examples, incorporating a range of detailed case studies...
Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge