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Art, Culture and Nature: From Art History to World Art Studies
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for Art, Culture and Nature: From Art History to World Art Studies
Hardcover. The present volume gathers together a selection of the editorials, articles, conference papers and essays, though which he has furthered his own attempts to renew art history and participated in those of others. Num Pages: 490 pages, 274 illus. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 181 x 249 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1878.
For thirty years John Onians has been trying to expand and deepen the discipline of art history. His books, Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age (1979), Bearers of Meaning. The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1988) and Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome (1999), sought to extend the understanding of art as an aspect of culture, while his current project, A Natural History of Art, is designed to show how that understanding can be further enhanced by the recognition that art, like all of culture, is based in human neurobiology, and ... Read more
For thirty years John Onians has been trying to expand and deepen the discipline of art history. His books, Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age (1979), Bearers of Meaning. The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1988) and Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome (1999), sought to extend the understanding of art as an aspect of culture, while his current project, A Natural History of Art, is designed to show how that understanding can be further enhanced by the recognition that art, like all of culture, is based in human neurobiology, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Pindar Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
586
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781899828951
SKU
V9781899828951
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About Roger Hargreaves
John Onians’ previous books, Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age (1979), Bearers of Meaning. The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1988) and Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome (1999), sought to extend the understanding of art as an aspect of culture. His project, ‘A Natural History of Art’, is designed to ... Read more
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