Theory of Art

Throughout the fin de siècle, "energy" was a buzzword that was used far beyond the boundaries of the sciences to negotiate the formative scope as w...

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 Is Not a Copy, Kaja Marczewska identifies a characteristic ‘copy-paste’ tendency in contemporary culture—a shift in attitude that allows re...

Für die Nationalgalerie und das Zentralarchiv der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin hrsg. von Sven Haase und Petra Winter Katalog zur Ausstellung in de...

The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject. Its purpose was to provide a visual or psychologica...

A contemporary synthesis of the philosophical, theoretical and practical methodologies of illustration and its future development Illustration is c...

In 2018, the artist Elisa Rose and the musician Gary Danner will have been involved in digital art for 30 years as STATION ROSE/STR. During that ti...

A timeline of artistic endeavour from the formal resources of the past to the boom-and-bust media hype of a postmodern age.In these celebrated essa...

In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that revea...

In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that revea...

Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working i...

The reflections on historical and contemporary positions assembled here shed light on concepts of temporalities in the context of artistic practice...

This ambitious volume provides a general introduction to the major approaches in this century to art theory and criticism, from the Expression Theo...

A beautifully written study of three pioneering artists, entwining their work and our understanding of creativity Bringing the creative process of ...

The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Bourdieu develops a highly o...

Art and Value focuses on the questions of history, methods, and nature of art theories, and on the value and evaluation of art. It serves as a valu...

This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant...

Art and Value focuses on the questions of history, methods, and nature of art theories, and on the value and evaluation of art. It serves as a valu...

A distinguished group of art historians reflect on the work of Michael Baxandall, in terms of its importance for their own formation, its location ...

Addressing Spinoza’s perennial question: “why do the masses fight for their servitude as if it was salvation?”, Capitalism and the Limits of Desire...

Situated at the interface of philosophy, aesthetics and art history, this collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent s...