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Spirited A Portable History of Western Art from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era is a lively, scholarly survey of the great artists, works, and movements that make up the history of Western art.
The second edition broadens and expands the basic definitions and issues introduced in the first. Timely, important questions are What is art, and who is an artist? What is the West, and what is the Canon? What makes the Western Canon exclusionary
The second edition broadens and expands the basic definitions and issues introduced in the first. Timely, important questions are What is art, and who is an artist? What is the West, and what is the Canon? What makes the Western Canon exclusionary
280 pages, Hardcover
Published October 15, 2019
About the author
David D. Nolta
5 books2 followersDavid D. Nolta refers to his own life as "a manifestation of the charmed but highly insecure existence of the eternal student" (he went directly from high school to college (The University of Michigan), then directly to graduate school in English Literature (University of Chicago), transferring to another graduate school to pursue art history (Yale University).
This lifelong intimacy with scholars and scholarship has resulted in the creation of an astounding number of unique and memorable characters and situations. Some of Nolta's favorite targets are scholarly pomposity and hypocrisy, sexual pride and naiveté, anglophilia, and academic envy.
This lifelong intimacy with scholars and scholarship has resulted in the creation of an astounding number of unique and memorable characters and situations. Some of Nolta's favorite targets are scholarly pomposity and hypocrisy, sexual pride and naiveté, anglophilia, and academic envy.
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