General & Miscellaneous Historiography
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Overview
This lavishly illustrated book examines the variety of ways in which works of art haveachieved a position in the so-called canon of Western art. Focusing on a series of casestudies of art and institutions in Britain and France from the seventeenth to the nineteenthcenturies, the book explores the construction and evolution of canonical values. This is the first of six volumes in the series Art and Its Histories, created to accompanythe Open University course by the same title. .Synopsis
This lavishly illustrated book examines the variety of ways in which works of art haveachieved a position in the so-called canon of Western art. Focusing on a series of casestudies of art and institutions in Britain and France from the seventeenth to the nineteenthcenturies, the book explores the construction and evolution of canonical values. This is the first of six volumes in the series Art and Its Histories, created to accompanythe Open University course by the same title. .
Book Details
Published
January 1, 1999
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pages
272
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780300077438