Theory of Art

Art can seem very separate from our daily lives today, and, as our society careens its way through change and conflict, it may seem increasingly ...

The Books That Shaped Art History provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of the most important texts of art history ...

This title takes an immanent turn in art history. Immanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not...

Specifically engaging with contemporary art examples, this is a comprehensive introduction designed to help students studying aesthetics for the fi...

The Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) is the nation''''s largest and most reliable survey of how American adults (aged 18 and older...

Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. An essential collection of texts reflecting ...

How the approaches and methods of think tanks-including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics-paved the way for a peculiar genre of...

John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half h...

Connects Cold War material and conceptual technologies to 21st century arts, society and cultureFrom futures research, pattern recognition algorith...

Colour makes our lives more interesting how dull it would be in a black-and-white world! It pleases us aesthetically, entertains us and is useful ...

Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis - Rancie re''s definitive statement on the aesthetic - takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York ...