This book provides, from a critical perspective, a first contact with the key debates and authors who, over the last 2,500 years, have tried to define, study and evaluate the Arts in the west, as well as tell their stories so as to highlight Europe\'s outstanding achievements and supposed civilizational mission. - repeat.
It shows and deconstructs how the western theories and stories on different media - theatre, sculpture, literature, painting, photography, performance art, contemporary art, etc.
This book provides, from a critical perspective, a first contact with the key debates and authors who, over the last 2,500 years, have tried to define, study and evaluate the Arts in the west, as well as tell their stories so as to highlight Europe\'s outstanding achievements and supposed civilizational mission