Theory of Art

With newly commissioned essays by some of the leading writers on photography today, this companion tackles some of the most pressing questions abou...

Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies th...

Public Art acknowledges the trend among contemporary museums to promote participatory and processual exhibition strategies meant to elicit subjecti...

Formerly known as ‘Why Exhibit Works of Art?’, this book is a study of Christian and Eastern arts. The book is a collection of articles written by ...

The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and a...

The subject of cybernetics is quickly growing and there now exists a vast amount of information on all aspects of this broad-based set of disciplin...

Available for the first time in English, An Introduction to Iconography explains the ways that artists use references and allusions to create m...

At a critical point in the development of photography, this book offers an engaging, detailed and far-reaching examination of the key issues that a...

This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are c...

Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism is structured around four distinct but interrelated projects initially realized in Italy between...

A major issue in the relation of art to the rest of society is the question of how art penetrates politics. From the perspective of most art schola...

In The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy, Smith argues that Western Metaphysics has indeed come to what Heidegger describes as “an end.” That i...

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and...

The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence an...

The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence an...

Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain critically analyses the role that visual culture played in the early devel...

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and...

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste. For the first t...

Perception of expression distinguishes our cognitive activity in a pervasive, significant and peculiar way, and manifests itself paradigmatically i...

This book, the first in Moshe Barasch's series on art theory, offers a comprehensive analysis and reassessment of major trends in European art theo...

Traditional postcolonial scholarship on art and imperialism emphasises tensions between colonising cores and subjugated peripheries. The ties betwe...

This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the w...

On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive,...

This book explores the relationship between social justice practices and the Arts in Education. It argues that social justice practices, at their b...

Design History has become a complex and wide-ranging discipline. It now examines artefacts from conception to development, production, mediation, a...

Nearly every form of religion or spirituality has a vital connection with art. Religions across the world, from Hinduism and Buddhism to Eastern Or...

Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis The work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898–1944) occupies a key position in the broader history of the Austria...

Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj

This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Provides an overview of the most significant iss...

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship. Addressing contexts and ...

This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Provides an overview of the most significant iss...

Between Art and Anthropology provides new and challenging arguments for considering contemporary art and anthropology in terms of fieldwork practic...

Epilogue by Christine Buci-GlucksmannKarel Appel. A Gesture of Colour is the first of a series of six volumes, bringing together the most important...

Dialogisches Handeln in der Kunst Barbara Holubs sozial und politisch engagierte Kunstpraxis verknüpft seit dreißig Jahren urbane Entwicklungen, g...