History of Art

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History of Art is written by Marcia R. Pointon and published by Psychology Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0415090369 (ISBN 10) and 9780415090360 (ISBN 13).

This completely revised and updated edition of Marcia Pointon's guide introduces school and undergraduate students to the kinds of practices, challenges and questions that they will encounter in studying the history of art. Marcia Pointon vividly conveys the excitement of art history as a multi-faceted discipline addressing all aspects of the study of media, communication and representation. She describes and analyzes different methods and approaches to the discipline - structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis - explaining the history of these differences and their effects of the day-today learning process. She also discusses the relationship of art history to related disciplines including film, literature, design history and anthropology. The handbook covers training and vocational aspects of art history, providing a wealth of information on the different kinds of courses available and on the relationship between museum and gallery work and academic art history. The third edition includes: discussion of recent debates and the new art history; and a guide to careers in art history.