Theory of Art

In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and D...

This book explores the Liturgy as the manifestation by cultic signs of Christian revelation, the 'setting' of the Liturgy in terms of architectural...

How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practic...

Culture and Consensus, first published in 1995 and a revised edition in 1997, explores the history of the relationship between politics and the art...

Directing unprecedented attention to how the idea of ’excess’ has been used by both producers and consumers of visual and material culture, this co...

Outsider art is work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric pat...

A case study of the relationship between arts and cultural policy and nationalism, Scotland, CEMA and the Arts Council, 1919-1967: Background, Poli...

In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commem...

Colour, Art and Empire explores the entanglements of visual culture, enchanted technologies, waste, revolution, resistance and otherness. The mater...

Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original ...

Invisible Cathedrals places Wilhelm Worringer in the foreground of discussions of Expressionism and German Modernism for the first time. These essa...

In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential ne...

Offering a unique 'debate' format, the third edition of the bestselling Arguing About Art is ideal for newcomers to aesthetics or philosophy of art...

This groundbreaking book analyzes the extent to which feminine ideals of beauty, power, and spirituality in southern Nigeria translate into unique ...

In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential ne...

For most of the last century the methodology of art history has followed a positivist approach, emphasizing form and style, fact and history as the...

Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original ...

A discussion of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory is bound to look significantly different today than it would have looked when the book was first ...

Geniale Entdeckungen wie auch gewöhnliche Praxen aus den Formal-, Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften prägen die Gartenkunst der Neuzeit. Seit jeher...

Art can provide us with a sensory experience that provokes us to reconfigure how we think about our world and ourselves. Theories of art have often...

This groundbreaking book analyzes the extent to which feminine ideals of beauty, power, and spirituality in southern Nigeria translate into unique ...

Silence and the Silenced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives comprises a collection of essays from North American and European scholars who examine the...

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (1904–1975) developed a new and multi-faceted meth...