Theory of Art

I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here features essays by more than fifty renowned international writers who consider thirteen monumental works o...

"Looking to learn", an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, challenges the decontextualized approach to images and l...

A strikingly original work, Friends of Interpretable Objects re-anchors aesthetics in the object of attention even as it redefines the practice, pr...

This collection examines the complex intersection where art and philosophy merge. Topics for discussion include the criticism of Robert Wolfe, the ...

Ambitious in scope and innovative in concept, this book offers an overview and critique of the conventions surrounding artistic creativity and inte...

Why have some great modern artists—including Picasso—produced their most important work early in their careers while others—like Cézanne—have done ...

The essays in this collection signal a new relationship between anthropology and the study of art. The authors explore the boundaries and affinitie...

Perhaps more than any other recent writer, Craig Owens explored the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power. His f...

Arthur Danto's work has always affirmed a deep relationship between philosophy and art. These essays explore this relationship through a number of ...

Henri Dorra, in his comprehensive new book, presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. In...

Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been w...

Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subje...

For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, quest...

Art as worldmaking is a response to Alex Potts’s provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading scholars test Potts’...

In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Rancière continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does...

The Philosophy of Art is a highly accessible introduction to current key issues and debates in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Chapters on standa...

Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and descri...

ART THEORY ART THEORY “[Art Theory] is a first-class introduction to the subject, revealing an unusual historical range, a command of diverse and ...

Welche Strategien nutzen zeitgenössische Künstler im Umgang mit dem Katalog, wie präsentieren sie dort ihre Arbeiten und sich selbst, was lässt sic...

Der Prozess der Formung beginnt mit der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Chaos, einer immer wieder aktualisierten Anspielung auf die göttliche Schöpfung....

Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working i...

This volume presents the work of the “Collegium for the Advanced Study of the Picture Act and Embodiment” at the London Warburg Institute. It gathe...

In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick,...

Religious subject matter is not central in 20th century art. One might therefore suspect that, for the avantgarde, the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939...

Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities to give u...

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have these infl...

This unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which ori...

Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Ac...

In his influential essay “Provisional Painting,” Raphael Rubinstein applied the term “provisional” to contemporary painters whose work looked inten...

"A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar." What happens next? In lively and accessible pro...

The Philosophy of Art is a highly accessible introduction to current key issues and debates in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Chapters on standa...