Theory of Art

In this collaborative work between artist and theorist Suzanne Anker and art historian Sabine Flach, the study of image production unveils the real...

Walled Gardens: Autonomy, Automation, and Art After the Internet is the study of a young generation of artists characterised by their engagement wi...

Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value o...

Corporate sponsorship and business involvement in the visual arts have become increasingly common features of our cultural lives. From Absolut Vodk...

Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in...

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

Contemporary art exhibitions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modeling a new and expansive understanding of global aesthetics.In this ori...

In a struggling global economy, education is focused on core subjects such as language arts and mathematics, and the development of technological a...

In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant’s body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a...

Craig Richardson here addresses key areas of cultural politics and identity in a way that not only illuminates the development of Scottish art, but...

This richly illustrated volume explores the eroticization of death in the literature, art, and music of the nineteenth century, and in the popular ...

Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History is a significant contribution to the fields of theory, Darwin studies, and cultural history....

The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores th...

'The Artist's Way is like Dry January for creative types and artists swear by it' DEFECTOR 'Morning pages are the most cost-effective therapy I've...

Communities of Sense argues for a new understanding of the relation between politics and aesthetics in today’s globalized and image-saturated world...

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen o...

Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts an...

By paying tribute to matter, materiality and materialisation, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What’s Next? Eco Materialism and Contem...

This book spans the most significant phases of Ford’s literary production, from his art criticism to his main modernist novels: The Good Soldier, P...

This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists ...

What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence, this open ...