xii, 911 pages : 24 cm

A collection of 13 essays focusing on important periods and issues in the history of Western art. Includes a dictionary with more than 5,000 entries

"A Bulfinch Press book."

Simultaneously published: Bloomsbury guide to art. United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Pub. Plc., 1996

Includes bibliographical references

1. Art in the Classical World / Richard Brilliant -- 2. Penetrating Ecclesia: Interpretations of Gothic Architecture / Phillip Lindley -- 3. Art and the Renaissance in Italy / N.S. Davidson -- 4. Court Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe / Joan Crossley -- 5. Everyday Life / Paul Barlow -- 6. Portraiture: Likeness and Identity / Shearer West -- 7. Art Institutions: Academies, Exhibition, Art Training and Museums / Paul Duro -- 8. The Politics of the Landscape in European Art / Stephen Daniels -- 9. 'Other' Art: Approaching Non-European Cultures / Shaun Hides -- 10. Art in North America: The United States and Mexico, 1820s-1920s / Lucretia Hoover Giese -- 11. Women as Artists and Subjects / Marsha Meskimmon -- 12. Modernism and Modernity / Catriona Miller -- 13. Grounding Postmodernism / Jonathan Harris

A collection of 13 essays focusing on important periods and issues in the history of Western art. Includes a dictionary with more than 5,000 entries

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