Theory of Art

This book takes a creative approach in examining one of the biggest crises of our time: that of mental suffering, distress and anxiety. By bringing...

People often overlook the uncanny nature of homecomings, writing off the experience of finding oneself at home in a strange place or realizing that...

New perspectives on humor within photography Despite the ubiquitous presence of photographic humor in art and popular media, the phenomenon has as ...

Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appea...

In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art al...

This book is an ethnographic study of the travelling art exhibition Indian Highway that presented Indian contemporary art in Europe and China betwe...

Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s...

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciousl...

This volume presents a selection of studies written during the past decades by Professor DaCosta Kaufmann on a variety of topics concerning the his...

Collective Creativity offers an analysis of the explosion of artistic creativity currently taking place on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga. B...

In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971)....

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practi...

Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art examines a strain of artists spanning more than a century, beginning at the dawn of photography and culminating ...

Can corporate history be art? This question can only be asked if one is not familiar with the fascinating long-term project by the Chinese artist X...

Paul Clements champions the creative underground and expressions of difference through visionary avant-garde and resistant ideas. This is represent...

Artists in the Soviet Union faced a difficult choice: either join the official academies and make art that conformed to the state’s aesthetic and i...

This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and el...

Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art examines a strain of artists spanning more than a century, beginning at the dawn of photography and culminating ...

Exploring the significance of metaphor in modern art “Where do the roots of art lie?” asked Der Sturm founder Herwarth Walden. “In the people? Behi...

Changing how we look at and think about the color grey Why did many of the twentieth century’s best-known abstract painters often choose grey, freq...

Political Illustration introduces students of illustration, visual communication, art, and political science to how political illustration works, w...

Art and Answerability contains three of Mikhail Bakhtin's early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other inte...

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were begun in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art in order to bring the best in contemporary scholarship...

A revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize powerIn this provocative new account, David J...

Visually appealing, conceptually startling, and intellectually engaging-these phrases aptly describe the art of Liliana Porter. Florencia Bazzano-N...

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), one of the most important figures ever to have written about art, is considered by many to be the father of...

A new, fully transcribed edition of the celebrated collection of Jack Whitten’s wide-ranging, perceptive writingsWriting occupied a fundamental pla...

Painting in the Age of Giotto is a revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period 1260 to 1370. The study is the first to discuss Gi...

In 2008 an Iraqi artist was waterboarded as performance art. In 2010 artists upturned police cars in Russia. But what exactly do we mean by milit...

The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when an...

Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin’s “Artwork” essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern ...

The literature on the development of gifted child artists is sparse and very little is known of the developmental antecedents of giftedness in the ...

This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not...

Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum—sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subv...

Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin’s “Artwork” essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern ...

At his death in 1992, the eminent philosopher, critic, and theorist Louis Marin left, in addition to a dozen influential books (including Sublime P...

At his death in 1992, the eminent philosopher, critic, and theorist Louis Marin left, in addition to a dozen influential books (including Sublime P...

Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum—sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subv...

This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not...

This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions under...

From its inception in the early nineteenth century, the museum has been more than a mere historical object; it has manufactured an image of history...

With its specific focus on British representations of masculinity in relation to the trauma of the First World War and notions of national identity...