Theory of Art

Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarc...

Rounding off decades of exploration into the various ways in which buildings and urban sequences make an impact on the mind, The Dynamics of Deligh...

Imagination is a word that is widely used by marketing practitioners but rarely examined by marketing academics. This neglect is largely due to the...

Pollock and After: The Critical Debate brings together key writings on debates about Abstract Expressionism and Modernist art history. It is an ess...

The role of art in Marcuse’s work has often been neglected, misinterpreted or underplayed. His critics accused him of a religion of art and aesthet...

Modern Art Culture: A Reader provides an essential resource for understanding the culture of modern art since the 1960s. In recent years, media the...

Outlook explores the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation. It reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of prod...

If an artist sends a live peacock to an exhibition, is it art? 'What is art?' is a question many of us want answered but are too afraid to ask. It ...

If an artist sends a live peacock to an exhibition, is it art? 'What is art?' is a question many of us want answered but are too afraid to ask. It ...

The Red and the Black covers the major stages in the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as they are understood today. It ...

The Red and the Black covers the major stages in the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as they are understood today. It ...

Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of Visual and Cultural Studies. The journal's editors and contributors sought to fu...

Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of Visual and Cultural Studies. The journal's editors and contributors sought to fu...

This book explores body images in visual culture, from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. It engages with artists' use of different kin...

Contrary to popular belief, the practice of art isn’t just a product of innate talent or artistic vision; artwork emerges from an intentionally con...

Contrary to popular belief, the practice of art isn’t just a product of innate talent or artistic vision; artwork emerges from an intentionally con...

Originally published in 1905, Bosanquet’s translation of Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Art brings Hegel’s commentary and analysis of what constitutes ...

Marie Laurencin, in spite of the noticeable reputation she made in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century, has attracted only sporadic at...

How can archaeologists interpret ancient art and images if they do not treat them as symbols or signifiers of identity? Traditional approaches to t...

This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists ...

During the years before his death in 1918 Apollinaire’s reputation as poet and artistic animateur approached legendary proportions. This book is t...

Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism presents the first sustained re-evaluation of the life and work of one of the most acclaimed sculptors of the late-Vi...

Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education provides a contemporary volume that offers a scholarly perspective on tertiary level art and design edu...

This title was first published in 2002. 'Memory and Desire' is a lavishly illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the twenti...