Theory of Art

Studies of Old Masters are often implicitly based on modern notions, which do not necessarily tally with ideas contemporary with their art. Accordi...

What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Aesthetic program, literary genre, philosophy,...

This book presents the first comprehensive study of the philosopher and art historian Edgar Winds critique of modern art. The first student of Erwi...

The abundance of images in our everyday livesand the speed at which they are consumedseems to have left us unable to critique them. To rectify this...

What is the relevance of Dada and its artistic strategies in our current moment, one marked by post-truth politics, information floods and big data...

From the legendary and iconoclastic critic Dave Hickey, a collection of twenty of his most emblematic essays on artWe really dont need to know the ...

Encounters Beyond the Gallery challenges the terms of their exclusion, looking to relational art, Deleuze-Guattarean aesthetics and notions of perc...

In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that women dont paint very well. Whilst shocking, his comments reveal what Helen Gørrill argues is prolific discrim...

Psychocinema reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film, arguing for a return to the universalist core of both cinema and subjectivi...

Psychocinema reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film, arguing for a return to the universalist core of both cinema and subjectivi...

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chainsart included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary culture and sup...

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chainsart included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary culture and sup...

Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French...

The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the old world of factbased systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerg...

Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through inter...

The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the f...

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European ...

Briefe gehörten für Warburg zu den wichtigsten Formen des gedanklichen Austausches. In der Korrespondenz mit Familie, Freunden und Kollegen äußerte...

TransArts is a novel approach in the art education system, a course whose content and forms are adapted to the dynamics of art today: the separatio...

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from ...

Marshall McLuhan (19111980) is best known as a media theoristmany consider him the founder of media studiesbut he was also an important theorist of...

These essays, half of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that Kant identified in aesthetic...

Beguiling and informativeWall Street JournalLearn to see art as an artist does. Discover how a paintings composition or a sculptures spatial struct...

This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively modern genre, the b...

This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively modern genre, the b...

A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework establ...

Learn about key elements of character art from traditional and digital illustrator, Simone Grünewald. Simone, also known as Schmoe, creates heart-f...

This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches. Reassessing the representational paradigm of archaeolog...

When French theory went global in the late twentieth century its visual wing was understandably built on the work of its best-known thinkers, notab...

Wir Menschen wissen bereits seit über 400 Jahren, dass wir uns unverschämterweise nicht im Zentrum des Universums befinden. Dennoch war die Überras...

Turn the pages of this lavishly-produced book to discover a collection of monsters, creatures, and characters created by self-taught concept artist...

Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of art production not only in animals, but al...

A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, de...