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Animal Kingdom
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Cennino Cennini
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De Diversis Artibus
Die Grenzen Der Malerei Und
Die Nachahmung Der Griechischen Werke
Edmond De Goncourt
Eighteenth Century Aesthetic Theory
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Florentine Accademia Del Disegno
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Giorgio Vasari
Giovanni Pietro Bellori
Goncourt
Grenzen Der Malerei Und Poesie
Grundrisse Der Kritik Der Politischen
Inflated Nonentities
Jacques Callot
Jules De Goncourt
Late Roman Art
Late Roman Art Industry
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
Naive Und Sentimentalische Dichtung
Natural Beauties
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Royale De Peinture
Trattato Della Pittura
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Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415243025
  • Weight: 530g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Oct 2002
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to theories of art from Ancient Greece to the end of the Victorian era, written by an international panel of expert contributors. Arranged chronologically to provide an historical framework, the 43 entries analyze the ideas of key philosophers, historians, art historians, art critics, artists and social scientists, including Plato, Aquinas, Alberti, Michelangelo, de Piles, Burke, Schiller, Winckelmann, Kant, Hegel, Burckhardt, Marx, Tolstoy, Taine, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Ruskin, Pater, Wölfflin and Riegl.
Each entry includes:
* a critical essay
* a short biography
* a bibliography listing both primary and secondary texts
Unique in its range and accessibly written, this book, together with its companion volume Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, provides an invaluable guide for students as well as general readers with an interest in art history, aesthetics and visual culture.
About
Chris Murray is a freelance editor and writer. He is the editor of Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, also available from Routledge. He is currently compiling an encyclopedia of the history, concepts and methodologies of art history