Theory of Art

Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and a...

This is the companion volume to the authors' groundbreaking Symmetries of Culture, the classic reference for symmetry analysis of pattern for anthr...

Designed for readers with no or little prior knowledge of the subject, this concise anthology brings together key texts in aesthetics and the philo...

The design arts -- from the design of buildings and machines to software and interfaces -- are associated with types of knowledge and performance t...

The design arts -- from the design of buildings and machines to software and interfaces -- are associated with types of knowledge and performance t...

Politics has taken a cultural turn in America, and the arts are at the center of today's culture wars. In this book, some of our most prominent cul...

Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorist...

The twelve essays in the collection address cultural theory, aesthetics, and policy issues related to the economics of art in the context of global...

A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays ...

Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorist...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in problems of theory and method in the field of art history. Semiology, phenomenology, feminism,...

Described by Kenneth Clark as 'one of the most brilliant books of art criticism that I have ever read', Art and Illusion is a classic study of imag...

No work of Spanish philosopher and essayist Jose Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his defense of moderni...

It has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become i...

Is colour just a physiological phenomenon? Does it have an effect on feelings? This vividly written book, the sequel to the award-winning Colour ...

When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated-...

It has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become i...

Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important mov...

Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important mov...

How do we see art? How is it displayed? One hundred years ago, art was shown in a way intended to educate. Galleries reflected the curator’s view o...

This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting. Moshe Barasch draws...

Allan Kaprow's 'happenings' and 'environments' were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful,...

In Six Years Lucy R. Lippard documents the chaotic network of ideas that has been labeled conceptual art. The book is arranged as an annotated chro...

This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting. Moshe Barasch draws...

From the Roaring Twenties and the Group of Seven to the Automatistes and the early Cold War, Canadian artists lived through and embodied an era of ...

In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the paintings of Francis Bacon as ...

Somewhere between global and local, the nation still lingers as a concept. National art histories continue to be written - some for the first time ...

In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to...

Designing UNESCO: Art, Architecture and International Politics at Mid-Century represents the first full-length monograph on the genesis, constructi...

The contributing authors to this book, all pre-eminent scholars in their fields, present their current thinking about the processes that underlie c...

From the Roaring Twenties and the Group of Seven to the Automatistes and the early Cold War, Canadian artists lived through and embodied an era of ...

In this book, well-known scholars describe new and exciting approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topi...

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

In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to...

Somewhere between global and local, the nation still lingers as a concept. National art histories continue to be written - some for the first time ...

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

Thinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to ...

This collection of brief but insightful essays, though always returning to the author’s central conviction that the quality of artistic endeavour d...

Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science. However, there is little acknowledgement of the relationship between the v...

The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology. But little work has been done to explore the implications not of society on...

In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology and the Gift provides a muc...

This is a study of performance during revolution and revolt in the Arab world. Addressing the history of Arab theatre, it centres on legacy of the ...