- Format
- Häftad (Paperback)
- Språk
- Engelska
- Antal sidor
- 184
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2010-06-22
- Upplaga
- 3
- Förlag
- Pearson
- Illustrationer
- illustrations
- Dimensioner
- 209 x 139 x 6 mm
- Vikt
- Antal komponenter
- 1
- Komponenter
- RUBBER STAMP
- ISBN
- 9780205768714
- 272 g
Kundrecensioner
Fler böcker av Anne D'Alleva
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Methods & Theories of Art History Third Edition
Anne D'Alleva, Michael Cothren
This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments, controversies and divergent perspectives. This edition has been updated to reflect rece...
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Fundamentals of Art History
Anne D'Alleva, Michael Cothren
This invaluable guide enables students to get the most from their art history course. Written in an accessible style, the book introduces two basic art historical methods - formal analysis and contextual analysis. In this new edition revising auth...
Recensioner i media
Look! is a concise, helpful supplementary text that introduces students to accepted principles and methods of writing about art history.
John Seed, Mount San Jacinto College
DAlleva is inclusive with both her methodology and her materials. The text and the illustrations offer a wide range of objects and ideas from various cultures and periods.
Stephanie L. Taylor, New Mexico State University
Övrig information
Anne D'Alleva is Associate Professor of Art History and Women's Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her publications include Look! The Fundamentals of Art History (Prentice Hall) and Art of the Pacific Islands (Harry N. Abrams, Perspectives series), as well as Look Again! Art History and Critical Theory (Prentice Hall) and Sacred Maidens and Masculine Women: Art, Gender, and Power in Post-Contact Tahiti (University of Hawai'i Press). She has held grants from the Getty Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Professor D'Alleva received her A.M. and Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University, where she also completed a Graduate Certificate in Feminist Theory from the Center for Research on Women and Gender, and her A.B. in Fine Arts (art history) from Harvard University.
Innehållsförteckning
Acknowledgments 7
Introduction How to use this book 8
Chapter 1 Introducing art history
What do art historians do? The object of art history 11
What is art? / A working definition of art / What is history?
Why is art history important? 16
Art history and related disciplines 19
Art criticism / Sociology / Anthropology / Aesthetics / Cultural studies / Visual culture studies / Connoisseurship
Art historys toolbox: formal and contextual analysis 22
Museum accession numbers
Reading captions for information 23
Conclusion 26
Chapter 2 Formal analysis
Formal analysis 27
Formal elements 28
Color / Line / Space and mass / Scale / Composition
Two-dimensional art: painting, graphic arts, photography 31
Sculpture 35
Wlfflin and formal analysis 36
Architecture 40
Installation art 42
Performance and video art 43
Digital art 46
Textile and decorative arts 48
Patrick Heron analyzes a painting by Matisse 51
Conclusion 51
Chapter 3 Contextual analysis
Art and context 52
Contextual questions 53
Art out of context? Museums and art history 56
A brief history of museums / Museum...