Theory of Art

How does drawing shape the truth and our understanding of the visual world? Why has the act of reportage drawing persisted and thrived in our ever-...

How does drawing shape the truth and our understanding of the visual world? Why has the act of reportage drawing persisted and thrived in our ever-...

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How can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon?...

The latest volume in the Metropolitan Museum Journal series. Founded in 1968, the Metropolitan Museum Journal is a blind, peer-reviewed scholarly j...

Selected and introduced by Juli Carson, this book presents a collection of essential essays, interviews, and never-before published archival materi...

Selected and introduced by Juli Carson, this book presents a collection of essential essays, interviews, and never-before published archival materi...

Why are we creative? Why are we not? In The Dialectic of Creativity, Hermann Vaske explores these questions in conversations with Marina Abramovic,...

Nicht erst seit den Diskussionen um Deepfakes und generative KI stehen digitale Bilder unter Manipulationsverdacht. Während in den 1990er Jahren al...

Now available in a fully revised and updated second edition, this accessible and insightful introduction outlines the central theories and ongoing ...

How photography transforms the future as much as the past This book proposes a radical concept: that the photograph is as much an object of the fu...

Die Entstehung der Ekphrasis als ästhetische Kategorie der Renaissance steht unter dem Einfluss der antiken Schulrhetorik und der literarischen Tra...

A beautifully illustrated book that explores William Blake's relationship with Europe against a backdrop of political turmoil. Responding to revol...

Future Bodies from a Recent Past brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art and sculpture in particular: the reciprocal interpenetr...

Heavily represented sections of contemporary philosophy subscribe to the notion of embodiment. However promising this pragmatic turn of events may ...

Facettenreich und vielstimmig reflektiert die Festschrift für Gabriela Krist, Restauratorin, Kunsthistorikerin und Vorständin des Instituts für Kon...

Denken Sprechen Hören: Ein Werkporträt Das Hören bzw. der Klang der gesprochenen Sprache bildet einen fließenden, zuweilen auch gebrochenen Akt ...

Texts: Dorothee Hansen, Alice Gudera, Jean-Paul Bouillon, Christine Demele, Sharon Flescher, Gudrun Maurer, Edouard Papet, Samuel Rodary Look inside

Colour Psychology Today reveals new colour psychology information that comes from the author's pioneering research and studies on colour. The book ...

Hybrid spatial installations Ruth Schnells work interrogates historical concepts of reality that are now being called into question by apparative ...

Past philosophical ideas about arts influence contemporary artistic practices. We still use traditional Idealist concepts, such as the autonomy of ...

Repressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance investigates the tensions between politics and aesthetics by exploring the ways in whi...

Ireland and the North is an edited collection of chapters engaging with the relationship between Ireland and the Nordic countries. As a spatial and...

Lady Gaga, Jilet Aye, Müslüm, Andy Warhol and Sun Ra are nationally and internationally known artistic characters. This publication deals with arti...

'Remarkable . . . People will be inspired by it to look again at the world and its mysteries.' CELIA PAULAn expansive, wonder-filled collection exp...

What does it mean to render the processes of making art-cutting, pasting, and projecting light-as a series of metaphors for how we think and how we...

This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approachessomaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncan...

Volumes I and II bring together all of Irving Lavin's studies aside from those on Gian Lorenzo Bernini. They range from studies of the art and arch...

Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the process of creation in both art-makin...

Over the last 30 years, the Chinese system of art museums has enjoyed an unprecedented pace of development. Following a general and ongoing renovat...

Giving an overview of the history of color theory from ancient and classical cultures to contemporary contexts, this book explores important critic...

This book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and internation...

This book is the first full-length study dedicated to French women Orientalist artists. Mary Kelly has gathered primary documentation relating to s...

Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philo...

This new artists book is the most recent in a series by the author exploring the dialectic of mark, word and image. In 1862 Karl Marx took his Fre...