Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to
ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline …

What does it mean to say that a form of art is exhausted, that an artist has brought his or her
work as far as it can go, that modernism began with Edouard Manet, or that cubism reached …

What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods
changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical …

In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that
the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives …

Debates on the nature, aims, and methods of art historical practice have in recent years
given rise to a variety of new approaches to the study of the visual arts, to the projection of …

Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction
to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from …

HAT THE HISTORY of art is synonymous with the history of style is, for better or worse, a
basic working assumption of most art historians; apparently born with the discipline itself, it …

Here for the first time is a full-length study of the'critical modernisms' of the three leading art
writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better …

As the theoretical alignments within academia shift, this book introduces a surprising variety
of realism to abolish the old positivist-theory dichotomy that has haunted Art History …

Art History: Contemporary Perspectives on Method examines the various patterns and
approaches to the discipline of art history exhibited across the scholarship of all periods over …