Theory of Art

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European ...

Briefe gehörten für Warburg zu den wichtigsten Formen des gedanklichen Austausches. In der Korrespondenz mit Familie, Freunden und Kollegen äußerte...

TransArts is a novel approach in the art education system, a course whose content and forms are adapted to the dynamics of art today: the separatio...

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

Marshall McLuhan (19111980) is best known as a media theoristmany consider him the founder of media studiesbut he was also an important theorist of...

These essays, half of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that Kant identified in aesthetic...

Beguiling and informativeWall Street JournalLearn to see art as an artist does. Discover how a paintings composition or a sculptures spatial struct...

This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively modern genre, the b...

This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively modern genre, the b...

A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework establ...

Learn about key elements of character art from traditional and digital illustrator, Simone Grünewald. Simone, also known as Schmoe, creates heart-f...

This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches. Reassessing the representational paradigm of archaeolog...

When French theory went global in the late twentieth century its visual wing was understandably built on the work of its best-known thinkers, notab...

Wir Menschen wissen bereits seit über 400 Jahren, dass wir uns unverschämterweise nicht im Zentrum des Universums befinden. Dennoch war die Überras...

Turn the pages of this lavishly-produced book to discover a collection of monsters, creatures, and characters created by self-taught concept artist...

Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of art production not only in animals, but al...

A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, de...