Theory of Art

In his Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism (Clarendon Press, 1993) Paul Crowther argued that art and aesthetic experiences have the capacity to h...

"Benos-Amos opens for the reader richly detailed adn nuanced vistas into the intellectual and cultural history of one of the major kingdoms of prec...

For Romans, genius loci was literally 'the genius of the place', the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning; while we are less...

Best known for his iconic print Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as the Great Wave, Katsushika Hokusai was a revolutionary printmaker. His m...

This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to t...

This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to t...

People engage with authored works all the time. They buy paintings, read books, and download songs. They might even be artists themselves. And yet ...

In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when man...

The much overused word genius aptly describes only a few people in the history of civilization. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) unquestionably belong...

More than 100 pieces in this surprising and impressive collection are drawn from a body of Willa Cather’s writing that was not known to exist until...

Through much of the twentieth century, philosophical thinking about works of art, design, and other aesthetic products has emphasized intuitive and...

Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they sing songs while working, they kiss icons, they create and dedicate memorials. Y...

During the early days of the Second World War, the Catalan painter, Joan Miro, created a startling series of twenty-three gouaches, his Constellati...

One need only remember the role of Jacques Louis David in the French Revolution of 1789 and the quasi-official status of art in French national his...

This is the first book-length study of the genre of 'artist-opera', in which the work's central character is an artist who is uncomfortable with hi...

Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today, presents a new collection of essays, following on from his four previous col...

Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labor theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in sec...

The measurement of the significance and 'impact' of research is absolutely paramount in today's academic world - as evidenced by the recent introdu...

Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship. Navigating no...

Art and Abstract Objects presents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and the core areas of philosophy. The standard way ...