John Constable - Pre-Raphaelites - William Blake - Joseph Turner.
This study focuses on Aby Warburg, whose collection is housed in the University of London's Warburg Institute. The collection includes a translation of one of Warburg's Gombrich lectures and essays on Warburg's main pursuits.
This study focuses on Aby Warburg, whose collection is housed in the University of London's Warburg Institute. The collection includes a translation of one of Warburg's Gombrich lectures and essays on Warburg's main pursuits.
In the 1980s Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. Here he presents the first full-scale reformulation of his original insight, showing how art has deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that previously defined it. Danto focuses on the philosophy of art criticis…
Originally delivered as the Mellon lectures on Fine Arts in 1995, these writings cover art history, pop art, "people's art", the future role of museums, and the critical contributions of Clement Greenberg. The author provides conversations on relevant aesthetic and philosophical…
Over a decade ago, Arthur Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. Ever since this declaration, he has been at the forefront of a radical critique of the nature of art in our time. After the End of Art presents Danto's first full-scale reformulation of his original insight…
In Art: A New History, Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a world historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period o…