Theory of Art

The work of mid-twentieth century art theorist Anton Ehrenzweig is explored in this original and timely study. An analysis of the dynamic and invig...

***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...

How art played a central role in the design of Americas racial enterpriseand how contemporary artists resist it.   Art has long played a key role i...

How art played a central role in the design of Americas racial enterpriseand how contemporary artists resist it.   Art has long played a key role i...

In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theorie...

Conversations is a book of interviews with contemporary photographers, conducted by Rémi Coignet, photo book critic. Since 2014, when the first vo...

This collection of essays from a range of philosophers and art practitioners offers tools through which we can action change across art and philoso...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, plants gained great popularity as providers of ideas for artistic form. Collections of designs whose ...

A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth centuryArt is the language that speaks to the sou...

Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s, yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure, espec...

New interdisciplinary research in education Given the current demands on schools and the challenges they face in an increasingly complex and vola...

This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understan...

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have w...

Explaining Creativity is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on creativity. The book summarizes and integrates a broad ran...

In contemporary Latin America, an emerging crosscurrent of pioneering female writers and artists with an interest in transgressing traditional boun...

For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity. Discussion is strande...