Art History: The Key Concepts

[Pages:361]A RT HI S TO RY: THE KEY CONCEPTS

Art History: The Key Concepts offers a systematic, reliable, accessible, and challenging reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture. Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of art, design, and culture in general, Art History: The Key Concepts is an indispensable source of knowledge for all students, scholars, and teachers. Each entry contains a succinct definition, an exploration of its history, use, and significance, and suggestions for further reading. Entries include:

Abstract expressionism Epoch Hybridity Semiology Zeitgeist

Through extended cross referencing, Art History: The Key Concepts builds a radical intellectual synthesis for understanding and teaching art, art history, and visual culture.

Jonathan Harris is Professor of Art History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried, and Clark (Routledge, 2005) and The New Art His tory: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2001). Jonathan Harris also wrote introductions to the four volumes of Arnold Hauser's 1951 classic The Social History of Art, republished by Routledge in 1999.

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A RT HI S TO RY

The Key Concepts

Jonathan Harris

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ISBN10: 0 415 31976 5 (hbk) ISBN10: 0 415 31977 3 (pbk) ISBN10: 0 203 62719 9 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978 0 415 31976 8 (hbk) ISBN13: 978 0 415 31977 5 (pbk) ISBN13: 978 0 203 62719 8 (ebk)

As ever: for Jules and Jim, my extraordinary sons

CONTENTS

List of Key Concepts

viii

Acknowledgements

xi

Introduction

xii

KEY CONCEPTS

1

Name Index

340

vii

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