Theory of Art

The Language of Displayed Art, first published in 1994, is a seminal work in the field of Multimodality and one of the few to be entirely dedicated...

This book is centred around the examination of whether it is possible to find cognitive aspects or purposes in aesthetic judgements and in percepti...

A Handbook to the Art Market The new look on the history of art and its blind spots, the far-reaching digitization of structures and content, the ...

The Arab art scene from the 1960s to the 1990s. Story of Water and Fire is a captivating account of the joint life of two prominent figures in the...

A photograph lives in multiple eras at once: the time of its making, the time of its unveiling, the time of its subsequent rediscovery. Rebecca Ben...

CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE HUMANITIES, NINTH EDITION, takes you on a tour of some of the world's most interesting and significant examples...

Explores and theorises the modern and contemporary art of Iran from the mid-twentieth century to the present Critically rereads the concepts of mo...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses idolatry, a contested issue that has given rise to both religious accusations and heated scho...

Digital artist Zheng Wei Gu (AKA Guweiz) shares his anime-inspired world in this beautifully produced and insightful book, leading you through his ...

Transnational artistic creation has become a matter of course in our globalized world. But what did migrant art production look like in the GDR? Th...

In Performing Endurance, Lara Shalson offers a new way of understanding acts of endurance in art and political contexts. Examining a range of perfo...

Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis The work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (18981944) occupies a key position in the broader history of the Austrian...

The Pleasure of Research delves into issues such as knowledge production, artistic thinking, medium-specificity, and context-responsiveness. How do...

Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in i...

The aim of this book is to reinstate the Benedictine monk and artist Dom Sylvester Houédard as an important figure within the countercultural and t...

Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea ...

Winner of the 2014 Annual Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (USA).Contemporary art is the object of inflated a...

This book is ambitiously inter-disciplinary. Its eleven works, in full colour, form a striking contribution to the commonwealth of colour studies a...

In Creativity and Taoism, Chang Chung-yuan makes the elusive principle of Tao available to the western mind with objectivity, warmth, and depth of ...

Our world view has changed from a flat earth under the dome of heaven to a planet spinning in the universe. We perceived the world as a body, like ...