Theory of Art

Ein Buch, geschrieben auf der Basis persönlicher Begegnungen mit Emigranten der Kunstgeschichte, die fast ausschließlich jüdischer Herkunft waren....

This book argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together an important range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary...

Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, ...

Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography...

This title was first published in 2002. Adrian Stokes was a British painter and writer whose books on art have been allowed to go out of print desp...

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrat...

What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically, others the latter...

This fully revised and updated third edition offers students and artists valuable insights into traditional color theory and its practical applicat...

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones ca...

First published in 1999, this book asks what kind of advice was available to somebody wishing to embark upon oil painting in England between 1850 a...

This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art hi...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists a...

Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which ...

Emphasizing the understanding of images and their influences on how they affect our attitudes, beliefs, and actions, this fully updated sixth editi...

Rooted in the study of objects, British Art in the Nuclear Age addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear scien...

This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication,...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europes east as a socio-...

First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism in a style ap...

This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally d...

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-fi...

Stephen Zepke tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He shows that...

Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lensA bold project that de...

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europes east as a socio-...

First published in 1979, Inner Visions discussion the nature of contemporary magical thought encompassing the Tarot and the Qabalah and considers...

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (19041975) developed a new and multi-faceted metho...

This book describes the international effort to give order to colours and thus facilitate communication about it, two topics deemed essential to a ...

The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures is a selection of lectures that poet and Griffin Awardfinalist Srikanth Reddy presented for t...

The rebirth of realistic representation in Italy around 1300 led to the materialization of a pictorial language, which dominated Western art until ...

This title was first published in 2002: 'This really is a text that will fill a long-felt want. I am sure it will be required reading for anyone in...

Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sci...

In this ground-breaking book, a theory of distortion - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and t...

From intergalactic travel to the daily commute, enter this book and be transported to wonderful worlds where art and life intertwine and your ideas...

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts o...