Theory of Art

Studies of Old Masters are often implicitly based on modern notions, which do not necessarily tally with ideas contemporary with their art. Accordi...

What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Aesthetic program, literary genre, philosophy,...

This book presents the first comprehensive study of the philosopher and art historian Edgar Winds critique of modern art. The first student of Erwi...

The abundance of images in our everyday livesand the speed at which they are consumedseems to have left us unable to critique them. To rectify this...

What is the relevance of Dada and its artistic strategies in our current moment, one marked by post-truth politics, information floods and big data...

From the legendary and iconoclastic critic Dave Hickey, a collection of twenty of his most emblematic essays on artWe really dont need to know the ...

Encounters Beyond the Gallery challenges the terms of their exclusion, looking to relational art, Deleuze-Guattarean aesthetics and notions of perc...

In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that women dont paint very well. Whilst shocking, his comments reveal what Helen Gørrill argues is prolific discrim...

Psychocinema reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film, arguing for a return to the universalist core of both cinema and subjectivi...

Psychocinema reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film, arguing for a return to the universalist core of both cinema and subjectivi...

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chainsart included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary culture and sup...

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chainsart included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary culture and sup...

Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French...

The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the old world of factbased systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerg...

Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through inter...

The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the f...