Theory of Art

Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first in-depth exami...

The series Notizen zu Uecker (Notes on Uecker) makes the research results of the Günther Uecker Institute's fellows accessible to the public. The ...

The power of poetry, a topos since Plato, undergoes a radical transformation in literary texts between 1770 and 1830. Concepts of divine or uncons...

Developing an art-historically relevant and innovative question based on a key object is a complex matter. Each focused examination not only opens ...

Vier Bände im Schuber Emil Orlik (18701932) war Maler, Grafiker, Fotograf, Exlibris-Künstler, Medailleur und Kunsthandwerker: ein Allround-Talent....

Currently, defamation and disparagement may appear omnipresent. But phenomena of invective are not restricted to the contemporary world, by any mea...

Kurt W. Streubel (19212002) war ein Maler und Druckgrafiker, der sich trotz widriger Umstände in der DDR konsequent der abstrakten Kunst verschrieb...

Around 100 of the most beautiful prints from the heyday of Japanese woodblock printing are shown in this first publication featuring a previously l...

This book argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together an important range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary...

By inviting a conversation between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to Cézannethe father of modern artand perhaps the most vital ...

In this intimate study Juliet Miller maps the artworks that have influenced her throughout her life and examines how she has integrated them into h...

This edited volume proposes a theoretical reflection on the different artistic geographies of East-Central Europe (ECE) from an interdisciplinary p...

Ein Buch, geschrieben auf der Basis persönlicher Begegnungen mit Emigranten der Kunstgeschichte, die fast ausschließlich jüdischer Herkunft waren....

This book argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together an important range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary...

Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, ...

Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography...

This title was first published in 2002. Adrian Stokes was a British painter and writer whose books on art have been allowed to go out of print desp...

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrat...

What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically, others the latter...

This fully revised and updated third edition offers students and artists valuable insights into traditional color theory and its practical applicat...

***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...