Theory of Art

Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challe...

The idea of a graduate art program likely conjures up images of young artists in lofty studios, learning advanced techniques and honing the physica...

In this expansive study, John Clark draws on decades of his research on modern art cultures across Asia from 1850 to the present day. The Asian Mod...

In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have...

In this invaluable and thought-provoking book, Vladimir Belogolovsky reflects on nearly 20 years of conversations with leading creatives from aroun...

Reflections on how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us. Contemporary a...

What makes a colour work? What do colours mean to artists or cultures? Why does grey make a colour stand out? What colour are the oceans? Why is t...

In an age of protest, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests of museum funding (for example, the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler ...

The Language of Displayed Art, first published in 1994, is a seminal work in the field of Multimodality and one of the few to be entirely dedicated...

This book is centred around the examination of whether it is possible to find cognitive aspects or purposes in aesthetic judgements and in percepti...

A Handbook to the Art Market The new look on the history of art and its blind spots, the far-reaching digitization of structures and content, the ...

The Arab art scene from the 1960s to the 1990s. Story of Water and Fire is a captivating account of the joint life of two prominent figures in the...