Theory of Art

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human e...

Part of the acclaimed ''Documents of Contemporary Art'' series of anthologies . Nature, as both subject and object, has repeatedly been rejected ...

Molly Bang''s brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang''s powerful ideas-about how...

This is the first sustained phenomenological approach to modern art, taking a new approach and drawing upon an unusual selection of thinkers. As a ...

Real Likenesses presents a radical new approach to artistic representation. At its heart is a serious reconsideration of the relationship between m...

What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation betwe...

Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. A timely collection of texts, interviews and...

Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and...

The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song ...

The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind ...

Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to e...

* AWARDED BEST ANTHOLOGY BY THE ART ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND *How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literall...

Part of the acclaimed ''Documents of Contemporary Art'' series of anthologies . In a world where technology, spectacle and excess seem to eclipse...

Leading art critic explores the connections between art's past and presentContemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with histo...

Part of the acclaimed ''Documents of Contemporary Art'' series of anthologies . Amidst current global uncertainty failure has become a central su...

In our age of fast-paced biotechnological progress and humans' increasing impact on the environment the autonomy of 'nature' has come into question...

The German writer and art critic Carl Einstein (18851940) has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the history of modern art, and yet h...

American Civil Warera art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have...

Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happ...

Manifestos by artists, authors, editors, publishers, designers, zinesters explore publishing as artistic practice. Independent publishing, art p...

The Art of Eliza Ivanova is an evocative, edgy, and beautiful book filled with the work of this exciting artist. A graduate of the California Insti...

The avant garde is dead, or so the story goes for many leftists and capitalists alike. But in an era of neoliberal austerity, neocolonial militaris...

The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new tra...