David Nolta

Spirited Prospect David Nolta

Spirited Prospect: 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 addressed: What is art, and who is an artist? What is the West, and what is the Canon? What makes the Western Canon exclusionary