Charles Harrison

At once engaging, personal, and analytical, this book provides the intellectual resources for the critical understanding of art. An Introduction to Art by Charles Harrison offers an original, clear, and wide-ranging introduction to the arts of painting and sculpture, principal artistic print media, and the visual arts of modernism and post-modernism. Covering the entire history of art, from Paleolithic cave...

Art in Theory 1815-1900 provides the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents ever assembled on nineteenth-century theories of art. Like its highly successful companion volume, Art in Theory 1900-1990, also edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, its primary aim is to provide students and teachers with the documentary material for informed and up-to-date study. Its 260 texts, clear...