This is cultural history on a broad scale, a history of the process of civilization.

Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated.

In this Seventh Edition, the text has been revised to embrace developments in archaeology and art historical research, while the renowned contemporary art historian Michael Archer has greatly expanded the discussion of the past twenty years ...

Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Alloway’s most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half of the twentieth century.

Here, James Elkins surveys the last fifty years of art criticism, proposing some interesting explanations for these startling changes.

Introducing the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, this broad ranging book, the only edited reader of the sociology of art available, uses extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers ...

A survey of aesthetic and art critical stances accepted in the past 25 years, this book presents a brief summary of the historical background of nonformalist criticism as well as a broad spectrum of postmodernist critical sensibilities.

"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--