Kerr Houston is a professor of art history, theory, and criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he has taught since 2002. At MICA regularly leads seminars on art criticism, and also teaches courses in the history of art history, in ancient art, and in Islamic art and architecture. He has written for a number of journals, including Camera Obscura, Gesta, Source: Notes in the History of Art, and Early Modern Visual Culture; he has also authored criticism for several magazines and newspapers. This is his first book.
In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents
2) Full Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: A History of Art Criticism
Chapter 2: Description and Contextualization
Chapter 3: Interpretation and Analysis
Chapter 4: Judgment and Evaluation
Chapter 5: Individual Critical Styles: Tone and Voice
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: A History of Art Criticism
The Birth of a Genre
Chapter 2: Description and Contextul3#
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