Indispensable reading for both art lovers and students, <i>Art Theory, 2nd Edition</i> explores Western thought about art from ancient times to the post-modern period. Wide-ranging and exceptionally balanced in its analysis, <i>Art History</i> relates theory to the practice as well as to the intellectual and cultural-historical currents of each period. <br><ul><br><li>This new edition expands the original to include more indepth coverage of contemporary art. <br><li>Newly updated bibliography and suggestions for further reading <br><li>Six chapters covering the major periods of Western art history: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the early modern period (Renaissance and Baroque), the Enlightenment, the nineteenth century, early twentieth-century modernism, and postmodernism. <br><li>Geared to the needs of the general reader and beginning students</li></ul>