Theory of Art

This study represents several years’ work on the image of women and genre images of women. It uses two modes of reflecting on or between the far fr...

The first English-language monograph on Il Fronte Nuovo delle Arti, this study explores the rise and fall of this postwar Italian artists' group as...

Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, ...

Within the rhetorical tradition lay an often unnoticeable, but at times marked suspicion about what was perceived to be effeminate and voluptuous l...

Challenging the notion that fashion and furniture were or are separate enterprises and distinct material aesthetic traditions, this collection focu...

Although art is taught around the world, art education policies and practices vary widely—and the opportunities for teachers to exchange informatio...

Contemporary Art and Anthropology takes a new and exciting approach to representational practices within contemporary art and anthropology. Traditi...

Contemporary Art and Anthropology takes a new and exciting approach to representational practices within contemporary art and anthropology. Traditi...

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

Art for Daily Living was first published in 1944. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again acce...

Scale is perhaps the most spectacularly overlooked aspect of artistic production. As photographic and digital reproductions have essentially demate...

This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and el...

This new volume in the Performance Ideas series is drawn from the ongoing video work art is/poetry is/music is (Speaking Portraits), which features...

Paul Clements champions the creative underground and expressions of difference through visionary avant-garde and resistant ideas. This is represent...

When French theory went global in the late twentieth century its visual wing was understandably built on the work of its best-known thinkers, notab...

To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their...

Art, Religion, Amnesia addresses the relationship between art and religion in contemporary culture, directly challenging contemporary notions of ar...

This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its n...

This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its n...

Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures In this volume, liberally seasoned with period illustrations, Yosh...