Art and its histories : a reader

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Title:

Author:

Edwards, Steve, 1959-

ISBN:

9780300077049

9780300077445

Publication Information:

New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Open University, 1999.

Physical Description:

xv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contents:

Academies, museums, and canons of art -- The changing status of the artist -- Gender and art -- The challenge of the avant-garde -- Views of difference : different views of art -- Contemporary cultures of display.

Abstract:

"Eighty-nine influential texts that have played a significant role in shaping modern judgements and values about art."

Subject Term:

Art -- History.

Added Author:

Edwards, Steve, 1959-

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A presentation of 89 texts that have played a role in shaping modern judgements and values about art. Emphasizing the debates and ideological assumptions around the Western canon of art, it ranges through art history from Pliny the Elder to current issues of gender.