Theory of Art

First published in 1999, this book asks what kind of advice was available to somebody wishing to embark upon oil painting in England between 1850 a...

This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art hi...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists a...

Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which ...

Emphasizing the understanding of images and their influences on how they affect our attitudes, beliefs, and actions, this fully updated sixth editi...

Rooted in the study of objects, British Art in the Nuclear Age addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear scien...

This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication,...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europes east as a socio-...

First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism in a style ap...

This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally d...

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-fi...

Stephen Zepke tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He shows that...

Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lensA bold project that de...

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europes east as a socio-...

First published in 1979, Inner Visions discussion the nature of contemporary magical thought encompassing the Tarot and the Qabalah and considers...

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (19041975) developed a new and multi-faceted metho...