This edition introduces the reader to the kinds of practices, challenges, questions and writings they will encounter in history of art. The author addresses all aspects of the study of media, communication and representation. She describes and analyzes different methods and approaches to the discipline, explaining their history and their effects on the day-to-day learning process. She also discusses the relationship of art history to related disciplines including film, literature, design history and anthropology. The work covers training and vocational aspects of art history, providing information on the different kinds of courses available an on the relationship between, for example, museum and gallery work and academic art history. The edition includes: direct guidance on choice of degree course and careers; advice on study skills and how to read; and a discussion of CD-ROM and electronic forms of information retrieval.