Fifty key texts in art history

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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 - 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).