Theory of Art

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling. Fundamental to our perception,memory, and thought is the way we join fractured experience...

Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation...

The violent operations performed in the 1970s by West German urban guerrillas - such as the Red Army Faction (RAF) - were so vivid and incomprehens...

Focusing on the later work of the American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), Claire Raymond takes up the question of the disintegrative c...

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

Pictorial representation is one of the core questions in aesthetics and philosophy of art. What is a picture? How do pictures represent things? Thi...

The study of technical treatises in Indian art has increasingly attracted much interest. This work puts forward a critical re-examination of the ke...

While Indian visual culture and Tantric images have drawn wide attention, the culture of images, particularly that of the divine images, is broadly...

Art, Research, Philosophy explores the emergent field of artistic research: art produced as a contribution to knowledge. As a new subject, it raise...

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practi...

In a struggling global economy, education is focused on core subjects such as language arts and mathematics, and the development of technological a...

The collection, interpretation and display of art from the People’s Republic of China, and particularly the art of the Cultural Revolution, have be...

On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture focuses on the image, and our relationship to it, as a site of "not looking." The collec...

Heidegger and the Work of Art History explores the impact and future possibilities of Heidegger’s philosophy for art history and visual culture in ...

This volume is a collection of essays that presents both theory- and practice-based approaches to questions concerning the embodiment of sense. Exp...

The nature of representation is a central topic in philosophy. This is the first book to connect problems with understanding representational artif...

This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility—actual, social, virtual, and imaginary—as related to visual ...

This book is a collection of essays and creative expressions, written and produced in response to the second Making Sense colloquium, which was hel...

The nature of representation is a central topic in philosophy. This is the first book to connect problems with understanding representational artif...

The Critical Imagination is a study of metaphor, imaginativeness, and criticism of the arts. Since the eighteenth century, many philosophers have a...

Collecting has a long tradition in the Middle East but the museum as a public institution is relatively new. Today there are national museums for ...

While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, criti...

Photography: History and Theory introduces students to both the history of photography and critical theory.From its inception in the nineteenth cen...

Art, Religion, Amnesia addresses the relationship between art and religion in contemporary culture, directly challenging contemporary notions of ar...