Visual Arts: Art History Books

"This text examines all the major debates and issues using a wide range of well-known examples. It discusses the challenge of using verbal and written language to analyse a visual form."

Features a discussion of major art movements, trends, and periods along with biographical information on key artists and their work.

Introduces a new, chronological way of examining the major art movements of the Western world over the last two thousand years. Provides important examples of work from 240 leading artists.

"This is a key book for the study and enjoyment of Western art."

"... content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism."

"Art History: The Key Concepts is a systematic, reliable and accessible reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture."

"... art historian Martin Kemp takes the reader on an extraordinary trip through art, from devotional works to the revolutionary techniques of the Renaissance, from the courtly Masters of the seventeenth century through to the daring avant-garde of the twentieth century and beyond."

"This title examines Western art's original European roots, the ways and styles in which it has expanded and changed..."