Fifty key texts in art history / edited by Diana Newall and Grant Pooke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Natural history [Historia Naturalis] (70s CE) / Pliny the Elder -- Images [Imagines/Eikones] (third century CE) / Philostratus the Elder -- Gregory the Great's letrrers to Serenus (599 CE) and Secundinus (769 CE) -- Acts of the Seventh Ecumenical Church Council of 787 CE and the Iconoclast Council of 815 CE: arguments for and against Iconoclasm, 787 and 815 CE -- Liber Pontificalis: papal attitudes to imagery up to the end of the ninth century (to c. 900 CE) - On Albrecht Durer [concerning the symmetry of the parts of the human body] 1532 / Joachim Camerarius -- Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects (1550 and 1568) / Giorgio Vasari -- Il dialogo della pittura, intitolato Aretino, Venice (1557) / Lodovico Dolce -- History of the art of antiquity (1764) / Johann Joachim Winckelmann -- Critique of aesthetic judgement (1790) / Immanuel Kant -- Lectures on aesthetics (1835) / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Painter of modern life (1863) / Charles Baudelaire -- Abstraction and empathy (1908) / Wilhelm Worringer (1908) -- Art and Swadeshi (1909-11) / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy -- On the spiritual in art and painting in particular (1911) / Wassily Kandinsky -- Principles of art history (1914) / Heinrich Wolfflin -- Stones of Rimini (1934) / Adrian Stokes -- Origin of the work of art (1935) / Martin Heidegger -- Work of art in the ages of mechanical reproduction (1936) / Wlater Benjamin -- Centenary of photography (1939) / Paul Valery -- Marxism and modern art: an approach to social realism (1943) / Francis D. Klingender -- Story of art (1950) / Ernst H. Gombrich -- Black skin white masks (1952) / Frantz Fanon -- Long front of culture (1959) / Lawrence Alloway -- Modernist painting (1960) / Clement Greenberg -- Russian experiment in art 1863-1922 (1962 and 1971) / Camilla Gray -- Photographer's eye (1966) / John Szarkowski -- Society of the spectacle (1967) / Guy Debord -- Art and objecthood (1967) / Michael Fried -- Giotto's joy (1972) / Julia Kristeva -- Visual pleasure and narrataive cinema (1975) / Laura Mulvey -- Laugh of the Medusa rev. (1976) / Helene Cixous -- Inside the white cube: the ideology of the gallery space (1976) / Brian O'Doherty -- A thousand plateaus (1980) / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari -- Transfiguration of the commonplace. A philosophy of art (1981) / Arthur Danto -- Old mistresses: women, art and ideology (1981) Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock -- Patterns of intention. On the historical explanation of pictures (1985) / Michael Baxandall -- End of art theory (1986) / Victor Burgin -- Theoria: art and the absence of grace (1988) / Peter Fuller -- The other story: Afro-Asian artists in post-war Britain (1989) / Rashee Araeen -- Confronting images: questioning the end of a certain art history (1990) / Georges Didi-Huberman -- Location of culture (1994) / Homi Bhabba -- Welcome to the jungle: new positions in black cultural studies (1994) / Kobena Mercer -- Art and nationalism in colonial India (1994) / Partha Mitter -- When was modernism in Indian art? (1995) / Geeta Kapur -- Return of the real: the avant-garde at the end of the century (1996) / Hal Foster -- Handbook of the inaesthetic (1998) / Alain Badiou -- Relational aesthetics (1998) / Nicolas Bourriaud -- Yesterday's cold mashed potatoes (1998) / John Picton -- Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity (1999) / Judith Butler.

"Arranged chronologically, each entry includes a bibliography for further reading and a key word index for easy reference. Text selections range across issues including artistic value, cultural identity, modernism, gender, psychoanalysis, photographic theory, poststructuralism and postcolonialism. - Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock Old Mistresses, Women, Art & Ideology (1981) - Victor Burgin's The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernity (1986) - Homi Bhabha The Location of Culture: Hybridity, Liminal Spaces and Borders (1994) - Geeta Kapur When was Modernism in Indian Art? (1995) - Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (1999) - Georges Didi Huberman Confronting Images. Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art (2004)"--Provided by publisher.