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 Art
History: A Very Short Introduction
by Dana Arnold
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 What
exactly is art history? It sounds like an erudite and difficult
subject but how many of us understand what it entails?
If these are questions you
want answered but haven't got time to study the subject
in depth, this new book, Art History:A Very Short Introduction,
should be ideal.
With just 125 pages including
index, references, glossary and further sources of information,
it gives a concise, clear and understandable introduction
to art history.
Some of us may have thought
that it was just a study of art and artists through the
centuries. This book, however, shows that it encompasses
a much wider field including the way that art is discussed
and debated and how a visual form can be described and analysed
adequately.
There is discussion of when
new forms of art, for example, photography, video, conceptual
art, cross the border from art to art history. The author,
Dana Arnold, also looks at the effect of feminism on art
history, arguing that it had been a discipline traditionally
written and discussed from a male point of view. The rise
of feminism and the emergence of female art historians changed
that perspective. Indeed, art history has broadened to include
other social, racial and cultural viewpoints.
Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History at the
University of Southampton and Director of the Centre for
Studies in Architecture and Urbanism. Her recent publications
include Re-presenting The Metropolis: Architecture,
Urban Experience and Social Life in London; The
Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society
and the edited volumes The Metropolis and its Image: Constructing
Identities for London. She is General Editor of the series
New Interventions in Art History published by Blackwell
and Editor of the Art Historians Association's journal 'Art
History'.
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Facts
Title: Art
History: A Very Short Introduction
Author:
Dana Arnold
Publisher: Oxford
University Press
ISBN: 0192801813
Binding: Softback
Publication Date: January
2004
Number of Pages: 125
Price: £6.99
All information relates to
the UK edition.
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