A Companion to Art Theory
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
1. Edition July 2002
552 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-20762-7
John Wiley & Sons
The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings.
Preface.
Introduction.
Notes on Contributors.
What is a Theory of Art? Learning from Alberti: Carolyn
Wilde.
Part I: Tradition and the Academy.
Part II: Around Modernism.
Part III: Critical Theory and Postmodernism.
Introduction.
Notes on Contributors.
What is a Theory of Art? Learning from Alberti: Carolyn
Wilde.
Part I: Tradition and the Academy.
Part II: Around Modernism.
Part III: Critical Theory and Postmodernism.
Paul Smith is Chair of the History of Art department at the University of Warwick. His previous publications include Impressionism: Beneath the Surface (1995), Interpreting Cézanne (1996) and Seurat and the Avant-Garde (1997).
Carolyn Wilde is now retired and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol. Her publications include articles on philosophical aesthetics, the most recent of which is 'Style and Value in the Art of Painting' in Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting, edited by Rob van Gerwen, 2001.
Carolyn Wilde is now retired and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol. Her publications include articles on philosophical aesthetics, the most recent of which is 'Style and Value in the Art of Painting' in Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting, edited by Rob van Gerwen, 2001.