Arranged chronologically, features more than forty essays by an international panel of experts on art, art critiicism, and art therory tracing the evolution of art from ancient times to the twentieth century. A unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring forty-eight essays, and written by a panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to the key approaches and analytical tools of contemporary art study and debate. Chronological list of contents ix Notes on contributors xi Preface xix Theodor Adorno (1903--69) 3(5) Richard Hooker Rudolf Arnheim (1904--) 8(6) David Pariser Mieke Bal (1946--) 14(6) Norman Bryson Roland Barthes (1915--80) 20(6) Mary Bittner Wiseman Jean Baudrillard (1929--) 26(5) Mike Gane Michael Baxandall (1933--) 31(6) D.R. Edward Wright Clive Bell (1881--1964) 37(6) Carol S. Gould Walter Benjamin (1892--1940) 43(6) Marcus Bullock John Berger (1926--) 49(7) Alan Wallach Pierre Bourdieu (1930--2002) 56(6) Bridget Fowler Norman Bryson (1949--) 62(6) Mieke Bal T.J. Clark (1943--) 68(6) Jonathan Harris R.G. Collingwood (1889--1943) 74(5) Aaron Ridley Benedetto Croce (1866--1952) 79(5) Hugh Bredin Hubert Damisch (1928--) 84(6) Ernst van Alphen Arthur C. Danto (1924--) 90(6) Mark Rollins Jacques Derrida (1930--) 96(6) Stuart Sim John Dewey (1859--1952) 102(6) Casey Haskins Henri Focillon (1881--1943) 108(5) Alexandra Gajewski-Kennedy Michel Foucault (1926--84) 113(5) David Macey Sigmund Freud (1856--1939) 118(6) David Macey Roger Fry (1866--1934) 124(6) Carol S. Gould Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900--2002) 130(6) Nicholas Davey Ernst Gombrich (1909--2001) 136(7) Juliet Graver Istrabadi Nelson Goodman (1906--98) 143(6) Charles Nussbaum Clement Greenberg (1909--94) 149(6) Paul Barlow Arnold Hauser (1892--1978) 155(6) Paul Barlow Martin Heidegger (1889--1976) 161(6) Paul Gorner Julia Kristeva (1941--) 167(7) Kelly Oliver Jacques Lacan (1901--81) 174(6) David Macey Susanne K. Langer (1895--1985) 180(6) Donald Dryden Claude Levi-Strauss (1908--) 186(6) Boris Wiseman Alain Leroy Locke (1886--1954) 192(7) Tommy L. Lott Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924--98) 199(5) Stuart Sim Emile Male (1862--1954) 204(7) Julian M. Luxford Andre Malraux (1901--76) 211(6) Geoffrey T. Harris Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908--61) 217(4) Daniel F. Chamberlain Erwin Panofsky (1892--1968) 221(7) Juliet Graver Istrabadi Griselda Pollock (1949--) 228(6) Sue Malvern Herbert Read (1893--1968) 234(5) Michael Paraskos Meyer Schapiro (1904--96) 239(6) David Craven Georg Simmel (1858--1918) 245(5) Willi Goetschel Susan Sontag (1933--) 250(6) Carl Rollyson Adrian Stokes (1902--72) 256(6) Stephen Kite Aby Warburg (1866--1933) 262(7) Richard Woodfield Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889--1951) 269(12) Peter B. Lewis Heinrich Wolfflin (1864--1945) 275 Linnea Wren Travis Nygard Richard Wollheim (1923--) 281(5) Lloyd Reinhardt Wilhelm Worringer (1881--1965) 286(7) Marcus Bullock Index 293