Is aesthetics, as has recently been claimed, now able to meet the accusations often levelled
against it? This essay examines counters to three of the most common: that aesthetics is …

Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship
between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western …

Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting,
sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a …

The influence of contemporary literary theory on art history is increasingly evident, but there
is little or no agreement about the nature and consequence of this new intersection of the …

Abstract THE NATURE OF ART is a collection of 29 seminal, historically-organized readings
that are focused on a basic philosophical question: What is Art? Including writings from the …

This volume presents eighty-nine influential texts that have played a significant role in
shaping modern judgments and values about art. Emphasizing the debates and ideological …

For forty years, this widely acclaimed classic has remained unsurpassed as an introduction
to art in the Western world, boasting the matchless credibility of the Janson name. This …

The history of art from the early nineteenth century on-ward is commonly viewed as a
succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the …

What is the work of art? How does art work as art? Andrew Benjamin contends that the only
way to address these questions is by developing a radically new materialist philosophy of …