The following is the beginning of my art history book, 'The Four Dimensions of Art' which is based on my Masters dissertation, 'A Tension between form and Narrative: Rachel Whiteread's Beds'. Whether the book will ever be finished remains to be seen.

The book builds on the ideas of Modernism as proposed by Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried as a method to discriminate between 'good' and 'bad' art.

Please also visit my other pages on Art History, here and here.

 

CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS GOOD ART?

CHAPTER 2: BEAUTY

CHAPTER 3: ICONOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 4: EXPRESSION AND DECORATION

CHAPTER 5: FORMALISM

CHAPTER 6: ANTHROPOMORPHISM

CHAPTER 7: THE FIRST DIMENSION

CHAPTER 8: THE SECOND DIMENSION

CHAPTER 9: THE THIRD DIMENSION

CHAPTER 10: THE FOURTH DIMENSION

CHAPTER 11: WHAT IS BAD ART?