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Archived Art & Design: Art History: Theory & Methodology
Pre-Modern Approaches
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Archived Art & Design: Art History: Theory & Methodology: Pre-Modern Approaches
Art History: Theory & Methodology
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Introductions to Theory
Pre-Modern Approaches
18th- and 19th-Century Perspectives
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Diderot (1713-1784)
Hegel (1770-1831)
Hume (1711-1776)
Kant (1724-1804)
Riegl (1858-1905)
Winckelmann (1717-1768)
Heinrich Wolfflin (1864-1945)
Modernism
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Postcolonial Theory
Queer Theory
Ecocriticism
Pre-Modern Approaches (Ancient through the 18th century)--listed in descending order by publication date
Academies of art : between Renaissance and romanticism
by
Anton W.A. Boschloo et al
Call Number: 709 L5331986-1987
ISBN: 9789012058995
Publication Date: 1989
Main Stacks
A study of European art academies in the 16th to the 20th centuries in Italy, Spain, France, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland, England, Ireland, and Denmark. Includes bibliographical references.
Theories of Art: From Plato to Winckelmann
by
Moshe Barasch
Call Number: 701 B231T; N70 .B22 1985
ISBN: 0814710603
Publication Date: 1985-03-01
Architecture & Art; Undergraduate Library
A substantial study of classical approaches to the analysis of art from Antiquity to the 18th century. Includes bibliographies and indexes.
The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists
by
Iris Murdoch
Call Number: B398.A4 M87 1978
ISBN: 0192830171
Publication Date: 1978-10-19
Undergraduate Library
Based upon a Romanes lecture given in 1976, this essay provides an introduction to Plato's art theory.
Plato and Greek Painting
by
E. C. Keuls
Call Number: 881 P5.YKEU
ISBN: 9004053956
Publication Date: 1978-01-01
Classics
An introduction to Plato's analyses of painting. Includes a bibliography.
Plato’s theory of art
by
Rupert Lodge
Call Number: 184 P69YLOD
Publication Date: 1975
Architecture & Art and Main Stacks
A study of Plato's approach to art theory. Includes bibliographical references.
The Ancient View of Greek Art: criticism, history, and terminology
by
J. J. Pollitt
Call Number: 709.38 P76AN
ISBN: 0300015976
Publication Date: 1974-06-01
Architecture & Art
A discussion of classical Greek perspectives on art and related terminology. Includes bibliographical references.
Art and experience in classical Greece
by
J.J. Pollitt
Call Number: 709.38 P76AR; CL 709.38 P76AR
Publication Date: 1972
Architecture & Art and Main Stacks; Classics Perry Library [non-circulating]
A study of art theory in ancient Greece. Includes a bibliography.
History of aesthetics
by
Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz
Call Number: 111.85 T187HE
Publication Date: 1970
History, Philosophy & Newspaper Library and Main Stacks
Vol. I of this 3-volume history of art theory treats Ancient aesthetics. Vol. II covers Medieval aesthetics. Includes bibliographical references.
Artistic theory in Italy, 1450-1600
by
Anthony Blunt
Call Number: 701 B623A1962
Publication Date: 1962
Main Stacks
An introduction to art theory in Renaissance Italy. Includes a bibliography.
Aristotle’s theory of poetry and fine art, with a critical text and translation of the Poetics
by
Samuel H. Butcher (Translator); J. Gassner (Introduction by); Aristotle
Call Number: 881 A8PO.YBU1951
ISBN: 0486200426
Publication Date: 1951-06-01
Main Stacks and Oak St.
A mid-20th-century translation and critique of Aristotle's theories on art. Includes a bibliography.
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