"This book examines six modern art trials covering a wide range of legal and artistic considerations ... the first in-depth examination of the art trial from every intriguing point of view"--Cover.

Giotto is hailed by many art critics as the originator of modern art. In "Giotto in Perspective", editor Laurie Schneider assembles the words of Giotto's contemporaries and the opinions of later critics to establish Giotto's reputation as the painter who transformed Italian art from the Byzantine style to a more naturalistic modern style -- a revolution whose has not died out six centuries later. Noted art historians and critics discuss Giotto's development...

This book surveys the main methodologies used in artistic analysis: formal analysis, iconology and iconography, Marxism, feminism, biography and autobiography, semiotics (structuralism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction), and psychoanalysis. Various works of art are considered from the different methodologies discussed. There are 70 black-and-white illustrations integrated with the text, 4 plates in color, notes, a bibliography, and an index....