This work offers comprehensive representation of the theories which underpinned developments in the visual arts during the 20th century. As well as writings by artists, the anthology includes texts by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures.

Provides a comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. This work also provides French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Latin sources.

A wide-ranging collection of documents on 19th-century theories of art. As with its companion volume Art in Theory 1900-1990 , the book's primary aim is to provide students and teachers with the documentary material for informed and up-to-date study.

This volume traces the challenge posed to the academic canon by the emergent avant-garde of the early and mid-19th century. It considers the shifts in its development through the later 19th and 20th century and its eventual incorporation as a form of modern canon by the eve of World War II.

Examines the impact of international modernism on British art and the emergence of distinctly British counter-movements. This volume includes maps, chronologies, bibliographies, an index and finding aids. It is suitable for the study of British Art from secondary school to PhD level.

This is the companion volume to a series of four books relating to the Open University course, 'Art of the Twentieth Century'. This reader reflects the diversity of art-historical interpretations and of different theoretical approaches to 20th-century art.

This introduction to conceptual art explores the reasons why the new avant-garde chose to produce such work. Conceptual art has set out to undermine two concepts associated with art - the production of objects to look at, and the act of contemplative looking itself.

Discussing the development of modern art in the first third of the 20th century, this volume opens with an essay that introduces the main themes of art in the period and summarizes the political context in which it developed.

A collection of essays that addresses themes central to the study of the Scottish Enlightenment. It explains facets of enlightened culture in Scotland which have not been given their due in the literature, and assesses interpretations of various aspects of the Scottish Enlightenment and its relation to the European Enlightenment.