“Reframing Art History, an open-access multimedia art history ‘textbook,’ gives you a guided journey through the living, breathing, meaningful side of art history. We’re less concerned with names and dates than with meaning and movement. With chapters developed by a group of more than 40 experts, it showcases art and history from the bottom up.”Reviewers’ …
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Art history uses multiple art disciplines to study culture and people’s development through time. Visual arts are one of the oldest forms of communication between humans and the fundamental beliefs of their culture. The background of art history has been written from the canon of wealthy individuals from Western countries, focusing on well-known art and …
Reviewer’s note: Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 leaves off and covers material from Late Antiquity through Hogarth’s Marriage a la Mode. Volume 3 begins with Cabrera’s, Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and ends with Venturi, Rausch and Scott Brown’s House in New Castle County.
Reviewer’s note: a very basic, somewhat outdated, text, based largely on Wikipedia and with some formatting and/or accessibility issues. May be helpful for filling small gaps in other resources.