Theory of Art

This book offers an original approach to avant-garde art and its transformative force. Presenting an alternative to the approaches to art developed...

This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern I...

"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."—E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books"This is a...

In this selection of recent essays, Pollock insightfully engages all major areas of contemporary theory, especially focusing on sexed subjectivitie...

Judging by most contemporary accounts, the virtues of cross-disciplinary research, teaching and scholarship are above reproach. Conference organise...

This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern I...

John Johnston's background combines expertise in modern literature, poststructuralist philosophy, and high technology's production. Like Kittler, h...

Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception undertakes a unique critical survey and analysis of prevailing group exhibition-maki...

The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a mat...

A provocative account of the philosophical problem of ‘difference’ in art history, Tintoretto’s Difference offers a new reading of this pioneering ...

Drawing - The Process is a collection of papers, theories and interviews based on the conference and exhibition of the same name held at Kingston U...

First Published in 1999. John Ruskin (1819-1900), Walter Pater (1839-1894), and Adrian Stokes (1902-1972) represent three generations of English ae...

John Johnston's background combines expertise in modern literature, poststructuralist philosophy, and high technology's production. Like Kittler, h...

Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception undertakes a unique critical survey and analysis of prevailing group exhibition-maki...

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe brings to Melville's work the insight not only of an art critic and theorist, but of a practicing artist as well. Navigating t...

In this selection of recent essays, Pollock insightfully engages all major areas of contemporary theory, especially focusing on sexed subjectivitie...

This second volume of the series Advances in Art & Urban Futures brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultu...

Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aest...

An acclaimed artist and cultural provocateur reveals the hidden biases of the contemporary art worldIn self-congratulatory tones of tolerance and o...