A unique and authoritative guide written by an international panel of experts on art, art theory and art criticism. "Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century" traces the evolution of art from Ancient Greece to the end of the Victorian era. Arranged chronologically, the more than forty entries analyze the key ideas of key philosophers, historians, art historians, art critics, artist and social scientists, including Plato, Aquinas, Alberti, Michelangelo, de Piles, Burke, Kant, Marx, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Ruskin, Wolfflin and Riegl. Each entry includes a critical essay, a short…mehr
A unique and authoritative guide written by an international panel of experts on art, art theory and art criticism. "Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century" traces the evolution of art from Ancient Greece to the end of the Victorian era. Arranged chronologically, the more than forty entries analyze the key ideas of key philosophers, historians, art historians, art critics, artist and social scientists, including Plato, Aquinas, Alberti, Michelangelo, de Piles, Burke, Kant, Marx, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Ruskin, Wolfflin and Riegl. Each entry includes a critical essay, a short biography and a bibliography listing both primary and secondary texts.
Chris Murray is a freelance editor and writer. He is the editor of Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, also available from Routledge. He is currently compiling an encyclopedia of the history, concepts and methodologies of art history
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Part 1 Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to The Nineteenth Century; Chapter 1 Plato (427 347 BC), David E. Cooper; Chapter 2 Aristotle (384 322 BC), Ronna Burger; Chapter 3 Plotinus (204/5 70 AD), Suzanne Stern Gillet; Chapter 4 Augustine (354 430), Robert Crouse; Chapter 5 Alcuin (c. 735 804) and Theodulf of Orléans (died 821), Hugh Bredin; Chapter 6 Suger (1081 1151) and Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 1153), Hugh Bredin; Chapter 7 Thomas Aquinas (1225 74), Hugh Bredin; Chapter 8 Cennino Cennini (c. 1360 before 1427), Roger Tarr; Chapter 9 Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378 1455), Roger Tarr; Chapter 10 Leon Battista Alberti (1404 72), Roger Tarr; Chapter 11 Leonardo da Vinci (1452 1519), Erin J. Campbell; Chapter 12 Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 1564), James Hall; Chapter 13 Pietro Aretino (1492 1556), Paolo Pino (fl. 1534 65) and Lodovico Dolce (1508 68), Erin J. Campbell; Chapter 14 Giorgio Vasari (1511 74), Sharon Gregory; Chapter 15 Giovan Paolo Lomazzo (1538 1600) and Federico Zuccaro (1543 1609), Nick Webb; Chapter 16 Karel Van Mander (1548 1606), Walter S. Melion; Chapter 17 Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1615 96), Kaylee Spencer Ahrens; Chapter 18 André FéLibien (1619 95), Claire Pace; Chapter 19 Roger de Piles (1635 1709), Thomas Puttfarken; Chapter 20 Earl of Shaftesbury (1671 1713), A. Owen Aldridge; Chapter 21 William Hogarth (1697 1764), Matthew Craske; Chapter 22 Denis Diderot (1713 84), Mark Ledbury; Chapter 23 Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717 68), Alex Potts; Chapter 24 Joshua Reynolds (1723 92), Harry Mount; Chapter 25 Immanuel Kant (1724 1804), David E. Cooper; Chapter 26 Edmund Burke (1729 97), Abigail Chantler; Chapter 27 Gotthold Lessing (1729 81), Abigail Chantler; Chapter 28 Friedrich Schiller (1759 1805), Abigail Chantler; Chapter 29 G.W.F.Hegel (1770 1831), Gary Shapiro; Chapter 30 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 1860), Peter Lewis; Chapter 31 Søren Kierkegaard (1813 55), George Pattison; Chapter 32 Karl Marx (1818 83), Richard Drake; Chapter 33 Jacob Burckhardt (1818 97), Richard Drake; Chapter 34 John Ruskin (1819 1900), Erin J. Campbell; Chapter 35 Eugène Fromentin (1820 76), Barbara Wright; Chapter 36 Charles Baudelaire (1821 67), Rosemary Lloyd; Chapter 37 Edmond (1822 96) and Jules (1830 70) de Goncourt, Pamela Warner; Chapter 38 Hippolyte Taine (1828 93), Hilary Nias; Chapter 39 Leo Tolstoy (1828 1910), W. Gareth Jones; Chapter 40 William Morris (1834 96), Linda A. Jullan; Chapter 41 Walter Pater (1839 94), Laurel Brake; Chapter 42 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 1900), Ruben Berrios; Chapter 43 Alois Riegl (1858 1905), Margaret Iversen;
