TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Robert
TI  - Art theory: an historical introduction 
SN  - 1405107065 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - N5300 .W647 2004
U1  - 709 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell
KW  - Art
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-294) and index; Ch. 1: Antiquity and the Middle Ages:  The Shield of Achilles -- Imitation and Knowledge -- Beauty -- Rhetoric -- Word and World.  Ch. 2: The Early Modern Period:  Craftsmen and Theorists -- Humanism -- The Academic System.  Ch. 3: The Enlightenment:  The Eighteenth Century -- Radical Idealism.  Ch. 4: The Nineteenth Century:  The Crisis of the Academy -- Impressionism -- "Absolute Art Exists at Last" -- Ruskin and the Esthetes.  Ch. 5: The Early Twentieth Century:  Beyond Nature -- Beyond Reason -- American Modern.  Ch. 6: Postmodernism:  The Critique of Culture -- The Phenomenology of Signs -- Future Present.  Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
ER  -