An essential sourcebook for students and the only reader to cover such an extensive time period, this unprecedented collection of primary texts is organized in three parts, mirroring the three Art & Visual Culture textbooks. Included are extracts from Vasari, Panofsky, Ruskin, and more, on topics from sacred art to landscape design and the birth of modernity.

The essays in this volume engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalization, cultural difference, and curating, as well as explorations of key artists and movements and some less well-documented work by contemporary artists.

Featuring some of the most exciting artworks of the 20th century, this is the first book to explore the rich history of conceptual art in Britain during a key period in innovation, from the mid-1960s to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. While the early works of this period challenged art s traditional boundaries, by the mid-1970s, focus had shifted away from issues of art and individual experience toward questions of politics and identity, using the languages of documentary, propaganda, and advertising in the service of action. The result was a radical moment in British art that...