Part 2. What is art? Answers from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Ancient theory ; Medieval theory : Christianity, the human, the divine ; The Renaissance (1300-1600) ; Nature, the ideal, and rules in seventeenth-century theory
Part 3. The emergence of method and modernism in art history. Johann J. Winckelmann and art history ; Empiricism ; Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) ; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) ; Alois Riegl (1858-1905) ; Heinrich Wölfflin (1864-1945) ; Visual supremacy : connoisseurship, style, formalism ; Sociological and Marxist perspectives ; The new art history and visual culture ; Feminism ; Reading art history : word, image, iconology, semiotics ; Deconstruction ; Psychoanalysis and art history ; Culture and art history ; Influence, originality, greatness : a case for intertextuality.
