List of plates
List of figures
Introduction
1. Antiquity and the Middle Ages
The shield of Achilles
Imitation and knowledge
Beauty
Rhetoric
Word and world
2. The early modern period
Craftsmen and theorists
Humanism
The academic system
3. The Enlightenment
The eighteenth century
Radical idealism
4. The nineteenth century
The crisis of the academy
Impressionism
Absolute art exists at last?
Ruskin and the aesthetes
5. The early twentieth century
Beyond nature
Beyond reason
American modern
6. Postmodernism
The critique of culture
The phenomenology of signs
Future present
Sources and suggestions for further reading
Index.
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