Theory of Art

In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he expl...

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrat...

The phenomenon of iconoclasm, expressed through hostile actions towards images, has occurred in many different cultures throughout history. The des...

A major issue in the relation of art to the rest of society is the question of how art penetrates politics. From the perspective of most art schola...

First published in 1959, this book is concerned with the methodology of art history, and so with questions about historical thinking; it enquires w...

How are we to understand how the dominance of visual images and representations in late modernity affects Social Work practice, research and educat...

Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of mod...

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the diffe...

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By connecting ideas about faith with...

This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significanc...

This book explores the nature of Jung’s understanding of modern art, in particular his reception to the work of Picasso and his striking prejudice ...

This book explores the critical significance of the visual arts to transnational feminist thought and activism.This first volume in Marsha Meskimmo...

Politics, society and culture are essential spheres of life; as such, they are founded on individual and collective, thus abstract ideas. In their ...

Das Buch steht im Zusammenhang des Versuches, die zentrale Rolle der Bilder für die Ausbildung der modernen Philosophie am Beispiel bedeutender Ges...

This book reclaims Hegel’s notion of the “end of art”—or, more precisely, of “art’s past character”—not just as a piece of the history of philosoph...

During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society, as described by a member of the ...

This book explores the relationship between ekphrasis and memory in the novel. Drawing on À la recherche du temps perdu, Leonid Bilmes considers ho...

'Without The Artist's Way, there would be no Eat, Pray, Love' - ELIZABETH GILBERT WATKINS TOP 100 MOST SPIRITUALLY INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2023 How...

Wilhelm Worringer’s landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact ...

This book is a defense of perspectivism in the age of post-truth. At the crossroads of science, art, and philosophy, it unearths a tradition that w...

When Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900, he began the modern study of a phenomenon that has fascinated human beings for t...

In this fascinating look at the creators of artistic fakes and copies, Sándor Radnóti explores the role of the faker in the art world, and tackles ...