Theory of Art

Material Imagination examines the interrelated concepts of matter, materialism, and materiality in postwar European art, from 1946-1972. Provides ...

Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea ...

This immersive dive into the life and work of Salvador Dali unlocks the secret of this creative genius and reveals for the first time how his eroti...

Queer Pollen discusses three notable black queer twentieth century artists--painter and writer Richard Bruce Nugent, author James Baldwin, and film...

This collection of essays offers different ways of seeing twentieth-century art via the medium of aesthetics. In Mercure (1924), Picasso collapses ...

This book proposes a transversal approach to art, perceived less as a financial asset class than a source of immediate felicity. It will be of inte...

This volume is the first to address the concept of spontaneity from an art-historical perspective. The term, located in the creative field today, ...