The Art of Art History

This book is a unique guide to understanding the evolution of art history through a critical reading of the field's most influential texts over the past two centuries. It covers key themes, including aesthetics, history as an art, gender, modernity, and postmodernity. The more than 30 readings brought together from diverse writers provide background information, bibliographies, and critical elucidations of the issues at stake. It is an important and original contribution to scholarship in the field.