Theory of Art

This essay collection exploring the relationship between spirituality and art is the result of a conference that took place in December 2010 at Liv...

The book addresses the scientific debates on Rembrandt, Metsu, Vermeer, and Hoogstraten that are currently taking place in art history and cultural...

Embodied Fantasies, a concept central to art history, theory and practice is concurrently a topic debated in the fields of the neuro- and cognitive...

Work and Object is a study of fundamental questions in the metaphysics of art, notably how works relate to the materials that constitute them. Issu...

Art and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and ...

What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Traditional answers have emphasized aestheti...

Modernitalia provides a map of the Italian twentieth century in the form of twelve essays by the celebrated cultural historian Jeffrey T. Schnapp. ...

This book examines the role and the meaning of collecting in the fiction of Henry James. Emerging as a refined consumerist practice at the end of t...

Looking at pictures, we see in them the scenes they depict, and any value they have springs from these experiences of seeing-in. Sight and Sensibil...

Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) was a colossus of twentieth-century American art, achieving a degree of authority almost unimaginable for a critic to...

In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy...

Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we ...

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed w...

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed w...

From his rich, colourful and uncompromising oeuvre, it's easy to see why Khosrow Hassanzadeh is one of Iran's leading contemporary artists. A forme...

This book shows how painting since the mid-1800s has reflected Western society's mixed feelings about the transformations in our world produced ...

In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy...

Materials may seem to be sculpture’s most obvious aspect. Traditionally seen as a means to an end, and frequently studied in terms of technical pro...

Designed for readers with no or little prior knowledge of the subject, this concise anthology brings together key texts in aesthetics and the philo...

Written with clarity, wit, and rigor, The Philosophy of Art provides an incisive account of the core topics in the field. The first volume in t...

This provocative book is a tractate-a treatise-on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas t...

Threads, a series of talks devoted to the art of the book, includes poets, scholars, artists and publishers. It explores and enriches relationships...

Imaginarium: The Process Behind the Picturesis a compendium of practicaladvice and information covering thephotographic process-from ideacultivatio...

Booker T. Washington embraced photography as the artistic medium to represent himself and Tuskegee Institute because it was economical, technical, ...

Artworld Prestige examines the ways in which cultural arguments about value develop: the processes by which some practices, artists, and media in t...

In his third book, David Levi Strauss delves into the mysterious process whereby an image or idea is born in the mind and materialized through the ...

Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link betwe...

In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when man...

Rather than focusing on German philosophy or the French avant-gardes, as many books on the history of aesthetics do, Teukolsky takes up British res...

How can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon?...

How do we appreciate a work of art? Why do we like some artworks but not others? Is there no accounting for taste? Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship ...

Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even nausea. Yet paradoxically, disgusting objects ca...

Art can provide us with a sensory experience that provokes us to reconfigure how we think about our world and ourselves. Theories of art have often...

All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cog...

The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques deals with all aspects of materials, techniques, conservation, and restoration in both tradition...

Hailed as "exhilarating and suggestive" (Spectator), "thought-provoking and entertaining" (David Lodge, Sunday Times), and "incisive and inspiratio...

Intersections of Value investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience. It examines three appreciative contexts where aesthetic valu...

The Time of Discretion is an intimate, slow and relational time. It is also an artistic project. Besides Italy, it has been developed in the remote...

Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examine...