Theory of Art

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-fi...

Stephen Zepke tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He shows that...

Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lensA bold project that de...

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europes east as a socio-...

First published in 1979, Inner Visions discussion the nature of contemporary magical thought encompassing the Tarot and the Qabalah and considers...

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (19041975) developed a new and multi-faceted metho...

This book describes the international effort to give order to colours and thus facilitate communication about it, two topics deemed essential to a ...

The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures is a selection of lectures that poet and Griffin Awardfinalist Srikanth Reddy presented for t...

The rebirth of realistic representation in Italy around 1300 led to the materialization of a pictorial language, which dominated Western art until ...

This title was first published in 2002: 'This really is a text that will fill a long-felt want. I am sure it will be required reading for anyone in...

Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sci...

In this ground-breaking book, a theory of distortion - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and t...

From intergalactic travel to the daily commute, enter this book and be transported to wonderful worlds where art and life intertwine and your ideas...

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts o...

On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive,...

The more complex a human action is, the greater the need to formulate a plan of action, devise a method of implementation, and evaluate its executi...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history. Examining artworks by Kader Atti...

How are we to understand how the dominance of visual images and representations in late modernity affects Social Work practice, research and educat...

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine ...

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine ...

The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlin...

Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visu...

Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observi...