A companion volume to "Art in Modern Culture", this book introduces a selection of key texts from the Renaissance to the present day, exemplifying the wide variety of methods and approaches used by art historians. Included are texts by Gombrich, Vasari, Wolfflin and Pollack.

Approaches to the history of art are probably more varied - and more debated - than in any other branch of history, and a study of different historical approaches is becoming an increasingly important component of many academic courses. This anthology of art-historical writings from the Renaissance to the present day has a particular focus, for key texts have been chosen in which the authors themselves reflects on the nature of their subject and on their own methods of inquiry. Included are texts by Vasari, Winckelmann, Burckhardt, Wolfflin, Panofsky, Gombrich and Pollock, among others. The introduction gives a summary of art-historical methods, and each of the texts is accompanied by a brief commentary which places it in context and discusses the issues it raises. Also provided is a critical glossary of art-historical terms, a brief biography of each of the historians, and a select bibliography.

Texts on methods with introductions
Critical glossary of concepts
Bibliography
Index. Giorgio Vasari - lives of the artists, 1958
Carel van Mander - Dutch and Flemish Painters, 1604
Giovanni Bellori - the idea of the painter, the sculptor and the architect chosen from the higher natural beauties of nature, 1672
Johann Winckelmann - history of ancient art, 1764
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Von deutscher Baukunst, 1772
Jakob Burckhardt - reflections on history, 1872
Giovanni Morelli - Italian painters, 1880
Alois Tiegi: late Roman art industry, 1901
Heinrich Wolfflin - principles of art history, 1915
Paul Franki - principles of architectural history, 1914
Roger Fry - reflections, 1920
Henri Focillon - the world of forms, 1934
Alfred H. Baff - chart of modern art, 1936
Erwin Panofshky - the history of art as a humanistic discipline, 1940
Nikolaus Pevsner - an outline of European architecture, 1943
Arnold Hauser - the scope a limitations of sociology of art, 1959
Susan Sontag - against interpretation, 1964
E.H. Gombrich - in search of cultural history, 1967
William Fagg - studying primitive art, 1973
T.J. Clark - the conditions of artistic creation, 1974
John Onians - art history, Kinstegschichte and historia, 1978
Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison and Mel Ramsden - art history, art criticism and explanation, 1981
Svetlana Alpers - interpretation without representation, or the viewing of Las Meninas, 1983
Hans Belting - the end of the history of art?, 1984
Griselda Pollock - Feminist interventions in the history of Art, 1988.