Exploring Art & Visual Culture: A Reader" brings together essential primary texts by artists critics & art historians ranging from the medieval period right through to our own times. There is no other reader available that covers such an extensive period. Selected by leading academics in their field & published in conjunction with the Open University the reader will be an essential sourcebook for every student of art history as well as all those seeking a greater understanding of art & of the cultural & historical context in which it is made. " The Reader" is organised in three parts. The first section Medieval to Renaissance 1000
- 1600
Includes:: extracts from the writings of the Venerable Bede Vasari Bernard of Clairvaux Aristotle Erwin Panofsky Nikolaus Pevsner Erasmus & Walter Pater among others & sections on sacred art Gothic architecture the art of the crusades & the Renaissance. The second part Patronage to the Public Sphere 1600
- 1850
Includes:: texts by W.J.T. Mitchell Sir Joshua Reynolds Thomas Crowe Richard Shiff & Caspar David Freidrich & examines the city & the country the golden age of Dutch painting London & Paris landscape design exploration neoclassicism & the birth of Romanticism. The section on Exploring Art from Modernity to Globalisation 1850
- 2010
Includes:: writings by Marinetti Gauguin John Ruskin William Morris John Berger Clement Greenberg Lucy Lippard & Miwon Kwon examining modernism the rise of abstraction conceptual art & globalisation."