Theory of Art

Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observi...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

Having been mistakenly perceived as a follower of Salvador Dalí, Catalan surrealist painter and writer Àngel Planells (19011989) has passed through...

First published in 1985, this book draws together the authors artistic with analytical practices which had been developed over many years of sociol...

This study is an analysis of 'high' and 'late' modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s and early 1970s. Through a close reading of a selec...

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual d...

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 volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity for Italy by exporting literal...

The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary the...

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schieles work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artists visual b...

Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book inv...

This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and o...

When the body is foregrounded in artwork as in much contemporary performance, sculptural installation and video work so is gendered and sexualise...

Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship. Navigating no...

This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie...

Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s, yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure, espec...

Based on rare archival material and numerous interviews with practitioners, Art in the North of England 1979-2008 analyses the relation between pol...

Artists, designers and researchers are increasingly seeking new ways to understand and explore the creative and practical significance of the sense...

Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics uncovers these t...

Color is one of cinemas most alluring formal systems, building on a range of artistic traditions that orchestrate visual cues to tell stories, stag...

Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age challenges orthodoxies of photographic theory and practice. Beyond understanding the ima...

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (19481951). Although the name stood fo...

The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of...

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the diffe...

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wid...

This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity across the Americas in...

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 essays collected here investigate art made by women in South Africa between 1910, the year of Union, and 1994, the year of the first democratic...

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

Every city has its unique and valuable identity, this identity is revealed through its physical and visual form, it is seen through the eyes of its...

This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg- Holm, a forgotten Danish...

By inviting a conversation between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to Cézannethe father of modern artand perhaps the most vital ...

This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became se...

Baudelaire and Photography

Published in 1999. The articles in this collection focus on instruction - and writings arising from that instruction - in philosophy and the arts d...

This title was first published in 2003. The essay collection explores the conjunctions of nation, gender, and visual representation in a number of ...