Theory of Art

Hybrid spatial installations Ruth Schnells work interrogates historical concepts of reality that are now being called into question by apparative ...

Past philosophical ideas about arts influence contemporary artistic practices. We still use traditional Idealist concepts, such as the autonomy of ...

Repressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance investigates the tensions between politics and aesthetics by exploring the ways in whi...

Ireland and the North is an edited collection of chapters engaging with the relationship between Ireland and the Nordic countries. As a spatial and...

Lady Gaga, Jilet Aye, Müslüm, Andy Warhol and Sun Ra are nationally and internationally known artistic characters. This publication deals with arti...

'Remarkable . . . People will be inspired by it to look again at the world and its mysteries.' CELIA PAULAn expansive, wonder-filled collection exp...

What does it mean to render the processes of making art-cutting, pasting, and projecting light-as a series of metaphors for how we think and how we...

This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approachessomaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncan...

Volumes I and II bring together all of Irving Lavin's studies aside from those on Gian Lorenzo Bernini. They range from studies of the art and arch...

Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the process of creation in both art-makin...

Over the last 30 years, the Chinese system of art museums has enjoyed an unprecedented pace of development. Following a general and ongoing renovat...

Giving an overview of the history of color theory from ancient and classical cultures to contemporary contexts, this book explores important critic...

This book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and internation...

This book is the first full-length study dedicated to French women Orientalist artists. Mary Kelly has gathered primary documentation relating to s...

Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philo...

This new artists book is the most recent in a series by the author exploring the dialectic of mark, word and image. In 1862 Karl Marx took his Fre...