Art, Culture and Nature: From Art History to World Art Studies

by John Onians

Book Overview

For thirty years John Onians has been trying to expand and deepen the discipline of art history. His books, Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age (1979), Bearers of Meaning. The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1988) and Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome (1999), sought to extend the understanding of art as an aspect of culture, while his current project, A Natural History of Art, is designed to show...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904597513
• ISBN13: 9781904597513
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Pindar Press
• Length: 586 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.