Theory of Art

How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist perio...

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...

Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction befo...

Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of histor...

How do geopolitical, economical, and socio-political upheavals impact the field of art todayThis monograph takes a look at how the increasing multi...

In this book, Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir uncovers the crucial role of esotericism in the art of the Vienna Actionistsa group of Austrian neo-avant-gard...

An edited collection of contributions to conversations about the climate crisis and its role in critical discourse. The climate change crisis has b...

This book is the first to examine Renoirs handling of fashion and textiles, so opening up a fresh approach to the initially fêted artist who came ...

When artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem solving. The first book to trace t...

Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, ...

A Visual Language is a practical introduction to the language of the visual arts, with a strong, innovative methodology. This expanded second editi...

Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new histori...

Das Wasser: Metapher für heilendes Element oder Symbol für zerstörerische Urkraft? In den Werken des Jugendstils schaffen (be)rauschende Wellen, Fi...

In contrast to the divide between conception and execution advocated by Anglo-American artists in the second half of the 1960s, this book reapprais...

Human flourishing depends upon the mental health of the individuals. Throughout history, various cultural traditions have established and practiced...

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from ...

Romanticized notions of how one becomes an artist have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind ...

Romanticized notions of how one becomes an artist have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind ...

Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for the cultural sector. Many museums are represented on the internet with various materials....

The theory of Co-Corporeality is based on a conception of the built environment as a biological entity that opens up a space for coexistence and in...

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist science of imaginary solutions, a concept that has been no...

How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the...

Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approache...

Situated at the interface of philosophy, aesthetics and art history, this collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent s...

This book builds new visions of belonging and new articulations of place and space through various models of artistic practice by women. Exploring ...

Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first in-depth exami...