Art History
Introduction to Art History

The Basics

  1. Common Questions about Dates
  2. A Beginners Guide to the History of Western Culture
  3. Why Look at Art
  4. The Skill of Describing
  5. Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans
  6. Art as Concept: In Advance of the Broken Arm
  7. Why Is That Important? Looking at Jackson Pollock
  8. Art & Context: Monet's Cliff Walk at Pourville and Malevich's White on White
  9. Representation & Abstraction: Millais's Ophelia and Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis
  10. Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

Why Look at Art Why look at art? This was the question we posed to several of our colleagues at a conference for museum professionals. Special thanks to Laura Mann, Anna Velez, an anonymous professional, and David Torgersen whose voices and insights are included here.

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