Art & Visual Culture 1600-1850: Academy to Avant-Garde

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Art & Visual Culture 1600-1850: Academy to Avant-Garde
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Emma Barker
By (author) Tate Publishing
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:384
Dimensions(mm): Height 286,Width 215
Category/GenreArt and design styles - c 1600 to c 1800
Art and design styles - c 1800 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9781849760966
ClassificationsDewey:709.40903
Audience
General
Illustrations color illustrations throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Tate Publishing
Imprint Tate Publishing
Publication Date 10 December 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The second of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. "1600-1850 Academy to Avant-Garde" interrogates labels used in standard histories of the art of this period (Baroque, Rococo, Neo-Classicism and Romanticism) and examines both established and recent art-historical methodologies, including formalism, iconology, spectatorship and reception, identity and difference. Key topics, including "Baroque Rome", "Dutch Painting of the Golden Age", "Georgian London", the "Paris Salon", and the impact of the discovery of the South Pacific.

Author Biography

Emma Barker is a senior lecturer in art history at Britain's Open University.