Theory of Art

Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines. This volume provides a guide t...

Despite its name, documenta’s primary concerns are neither with the simple documentation of individual artists and their work nor with developments...

This book addresses a phenomenon that pervades the field of art history: the fact that English has become a widely adopted language. Art history em...

The Seventh Sense is the definitive study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, arguably the found...

In his Aesthetics Hegel gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. He surveys the history of art from ancient India, Egypt, and Greece thr...

This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theor...

Plato was the first great figure in Western philosophy to assess the value of the arts; he famously argued in the Republic that traditionally accep...

We live in a world dominated by mass art. Movies, TV, pulp literature, comics, rock music -- both broadcast and recorded -- surround us everywhere ...

This is a critical edition of the art writings of the painter Paul Nash (1889-1946). Alongside the very different Wyndham Lewis, Nash was the only ...

This book rescues Joubert from the ranks of minor French moralistes, and, by tracing the development of his thought from his time as secretary to D...

`This handsomely illustrated book is an original attempt to make clear how much the art of the orators and the painters in the Renaissance had in c...

Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of infl...

In his Aesthetics Hegel gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. He surveys the history of art from ancient India, Egypt, and Greece thr...

What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most? Will...

This is the second of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theo...

This philosophical theory of art, addressed to anyone with a serious interest in the arts, has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthet...

The first book in English to attempt a full theoretical analysis of Hegel's philosophy of art, Beauty and Truth examines Hegel's central thesis: th...

This collection presents new essays on emotion and its relation to the arts contributed from fifteen leading aestheticians. The essays will conside...

"A true poem," Walt Whitman proclaimed in 1852, "is the daily newspaper"--and American culture was never the same again. Like a blast of cold air i...

At turns humorous and absurd, heartfelt and searching, Photo No-Nos is for photographers of all levels wishing to avoid easy metaphors and to sharp...

This volume analyses the levels of meaning present in a wide range of visual images - from high art by Jewish artists to Judaica, caricatures, and ...

This collection offers a response to the view that migration disrupts national heritage. Investigating the mediation provided by migrant art, it as...

The Lives of Images, edited by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, is a series of readers designed for those interested in the ways images function within a ...

No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion...

Deeply learned, and with a style all his own, Marco Grassi is as at home with Duccio as he is with Norton Simon; Bronzino as with Bernard Berenson;...

Philosophers say what art is and then scientists and then other scholars study how we are equipped, cognitively and socially, to make art and appre...

This intriguing book investigates the very rare discovery of a huge, lost, Last Supper painting produced in the workshop of Tiziano Vecellio, known...

This book focuses on the philosophical, artistic, and scientific forces that impacted on the humanist of the late Medieval and Renaissance period, ...

The central argument of "Chromophobia" is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through colour - lurks within much We...

Josef Albers' groundbreaking series Homage to the Square comprises roughly two thousand oil paintings. His continuous reflections and refinements f...

Victorians’ views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in peopl...

Die Schriftenreihe Notizen zu Uecker macht die Forschungsergebnisse der StipendiatInnen des Günther Uecker Instituts der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich....

Almost more than artists, art critics today form an elite class that legislates cultural tastes. The Crisis of Criticism is a collection of brillia...

This book exposes the charlatanry that fuels much academic art history today and leaks into the art world generally.

What are musical works? Are they discovered or created? Of what elements are they comprised? How are they specified by notations? What makes a perf...

In his earlier books, Shadows in the Cave (1982) and Phenomenological Hermeneutics and the Study of Literature (1987), Mario Valdés laid the founda...

Richard Wollheim's (1923-2003) was the leading voice in the philosophy of art in the Anglo-American tradition during the second half of the twentie...

Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and has been crucial to the c...

The description for this book, The Voices of Silence: Man and his Art. (Abridged from The Psychology of Art), will be forthcoming.

Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at t...

The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cul...

In this bold exploration of the political forces that shaped Impressionism, Albert Boime proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secr...

The importance of the late 18th century in the genesis of modern art emerges in these four essays on various aspects of the art and architecture of...