Theory of Art

Art historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceani...

Art historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceani...

From ancient Greece to Renaissance Italy to the Modern period, the classical ideal, with its elusive goal of perfecting nature, has held a tenaciou...

This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. Throug...

This book comprises a timely and controversial assertion of beauty as vital to the energy of contemporary art. As such it surveys work by an intern...

What humankind consider to be truths does not enter our world naked. Rather, it was and is expressed in symbols, images, archetypes and role model...

With its optical illusions and geometric patterns, Op Art has been playing tricks with our eyes since the 1960s and can still be found everywhere i...

Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the ...

Following key terms from A–Z, these books illuminate little-known aspects and shed new light on familiar motifs and themes. This time about the art...

In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art ...

Images of chaos cannot truly exist, as they would show the state of the world before its creation. Nevertheless, from antiquity through the Middle ...

Informative and well-illustrated collection of essays and documents tracing the impact of the Situationist International on British culture from th...

Read Frame Type Film stems from the ambitious “TypoFilm” research project, initiated at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2020 and dedicated to const...

One of the traits that Arte Povera artists have in common is to deconstruct things and not to privilege the material as an end in itself. It is lik...