An exciting new critical voice explores what it is that makes great art great through
an illuminating analysis of the world’s artistic masterpieces.From a carved mammoth tusk (ca. 40,000 BCE) to Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (1505–1510) to Duchamp’s Fountain ...
Life is good for Arthur. He has made it to his senior year in college
and his art has advanced significantly. His two girlfriends, Annette and Morgan, help keep him balanced, but with real friends in school, Art has begun ...
In Art to Come Terry Smith—who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading
historians and theorists of contemporary art—traces the emergence of contemporary art and further develops his concept of contemporaneity. Smith shows that embracing contemporaneity as both ...
Written in honor of Alicia Craig Faxon, Ph.D., whose career as a scholar, professor, art
critic and patron of the arts has contributed so much to the fields of art history and art criticism, this collection represents original research on ...
Since the confirmation of Deng Xiaoping’s policy of Opening and Reform in 1978, the People’s
Republic of China has undergone a liberalization of culture that has led to the production of numerous forms of avant-garde, experimental, and museum-based art. With ...
Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional
ambiguities that the term often tends to conceal. Live Art can be usefully defined as a peculiarly British variation on particular legacies of cultural experimentation ...
Art has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry
or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categories of art and art history acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory ...
Arthur Efland puts current debate and concerns in a well-researched historical perspective. He examines the
institutional settings of art education throughout Western history, the social forces that have shaped it, and the evolution and impact of alternate streams of influence ...