Theory of Art

This book demonstrates how artists have radically revisited the genre of the self-portrait by using a range of technologies and media that mark dif...

Slow Looking can lead to unexpected and huge rewards. In Book One - Learning to Look Robert Cumming shares his own slow discovery of the pleasures ...

The Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting Techniques in Photoshop: Sci-fi and Fantasy is a step-by-step guide exploring the fundamental aspects of t...

The book Theory and Practice of Contrast completes, corrects and integrates the foundations of science and humanities, which include: theory of art...

Lisanne Heitel shows how a re-evaluation of coloration by Goethe and other renowned art theorists paved the way for a rediscovery of colours in the...

What is contemporary art, and how did art come to be what it is today? How can we understand what a work of art means; and can't just about anythin...

This book provides a Renaissance art historians view of how the picturesque aesthetic developed from roots in the sixteenth century (mostly in pain...

Eco awareness has had an enormous impact across all cultural and political spectrums, not least in the art world. This accessible and thought-provo...

Time, media, and visuality are watchwords of modernity across science, culture and the arts. At which point in history, though, did they decisively...

The works covered in college art history classes frequently depict violence against women. Traditional survey textbooks highlight the impressive fo...

The works covered in college art history classes frequently depict violence against women. Traditional survey textbooks highlight the impressive fo...

The artist, at least according to Honoré de Balzac, is at work when he seems to be at rest; his labor is not labor but repose. This observation pro...