Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781119170112
Year: 2016
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 592


Description:
This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written
by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive
introduction to British art history.




A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned
essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history
of British art

Combines original research with a survey of existing
scholarship and the state of the field

Touches on the whole of the history of British art, from
800-2000, with increasing attention paid to the periods after
1500

Provides the first comprehensive introduction to British art of
the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, one of the
most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study

Presents in depth the major preoccupations that have emerged
from recent scholarship, including aesthetics, gender, British
art?s relationship to Modernity, nationhood and nationality,
and the institutions of the British art world