Theory of Art

Surveying a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence, from canon-revision in the acade...

While many acknowledge that Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault have redefined our notions of time and history, few recognize the crucial role ...

"Like the great German critic Walter Benjamin, Rosenberg is a master of dialectics whose sense of art is continuous with his sense of society, and ...

Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its origin...

With "The Invention of Art", Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing...

The work of the French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-1992) is of importance to scholars concerned with issues of representation. This text, fir...

American art of the 1980s is as misunderstood as it is notorious. Critics of the time feared that market hype and self-promotion threatened the int...

In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author extends his investigation to pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images ...

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to ...

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categ...

"As a stylist, in his descriptions of art and movements and books, Rosenberg has no equal. . . . One is grateful for [this] essay collection. To my...

Long recognized as one of the most important 18th-century works on the aesthetics of the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's "Plastik" ("Sculptu...

This text examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions, and institutions that have framed the development and uses of art t...

This revision of avant-garde history traces a direct line back from John Cage, pop and conceptual art, through the Futurists, to Whitman, Emerson, ...

Long recognized as one of the most important 18th-century works on the aesthetics of the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's "Plastik" ("Sculptu...

"Art history after modernism" does not only mean that art looks different today; it also means that our discourse on art has taken a different dire...

The Eisner award-winning examination of the ways in which the comic strip Judge Dredd, published in 2000 AD, has predicted the changing face of pol...

Stories shape us and give us meaning - but is it coincidence that the same seven basic plots repeat over time and across the world? What if stori...

This first-ever portrait of Linda Berger’s work invites you to discover the artist’s detailed drawings, especially her latest graphic works and exh...

The early 21st century has seen contemporary art make continued use of audience participation, in which the spectator becomes part of the artwork i...

Neid und Wut, Liebe und Hass, Begehren und Eifersucht – die Darstellung herzzerreißender, hochdramatischer, zutiefst beglückender und bis ins Mark ...

A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, de...

The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effor...

Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pio...

Over the course of her career, Barbara Stafford has established herself the preeminent scholar of the intersections of the arts and sciences, artic...

In Hybrid Practices, essays by established and emerging scholars investigate the rich ecology of practices that typified the era of the Cold War. T...