Theory of Art

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

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

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

This unique collaboration between scholars, practitioners and Muslim artists profiles emerging forms of contemporary British Muslim art, prompting ...

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and exper...

Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happ...

Food as social ritual, personal liberation and spiritual alchemy: from Alison Knowles and Adrian Piper to Agnes Denes and Andy Warhol In More Than...

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable... - Cesar A. CruzAcross the centuries, art has held up a mirror to humanity's evolvin...

After a long period of comparative neglect, starting almost immediately upon his death in 1900, John Ruskin began to attract, from the 1960s onward...

'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates an...

The first introduction of the seminal writings of a key Belgian writer and critic to an English-speaking audience.Radically subjective. Radically u...

The newest volume in the beloved ekphrasis series focuses on dance and poetry through the eyes of one of the twentieth centurys greatest critics I...

A holistic and systematic analysis of Ernst Gombrich as theorist Offers the first holistic and systematic analysis of Gombrich's theoretical ideas...

A chronological illustrated analysis of fifty-eight years of work by the collective Art & Language   Art & Language is an artists collectiv...

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen o...

Die alten Kulturen Ostasiens, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens und des Mittelmeerraumes zeichnen sich durch spektakuläre wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis...

Master of overpainting experience the fascinating oeuvre of Arnulf Rainer. The art of Arnulf Rainer (*1929) is baffling. The black overpainting, ...

Outsider art has exploded onto the international art scene, gaining widespread attention for its startling originality and visual power. As an expr...

This book analyses how three artists Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970...

In this book, curator Michelle White considers the unique and timely implications of how the artist Tacita Dean draws. Covering over three decades ...

The ancient cultures of East Asia, the Near and Middle East and the Mediterranean were characterised by spectacular scientific findings and advance...

This book analyses how three artists Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970...

Aesthetics has long been the preserve of philosophy, art history, and the creative arts but, more recently, the fields of psychology and neuroscien...

This book offers a theory of those formal properties of art that are apt to afford strong aesthetic experience a project resembling Aristotles in ...

People often overlook the uncanny nature of homecomings, writing off the experience of finding oneself at home in a strange place or realizing that...

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key concepts i...

The book aims to provide a contemporary individual with an extensive but focused set of examples of kitsch in non-artistic spheres to create theore...

Visual Time offers a rare consideration of the idea of time in art history. Non-Western art histories currently have an unprecedented prominence in...

Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic: Psy...

This edited volume offers new models for engaging with the work of John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, architectural and educational theorist, a...

Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary artIf, as Walter Benjamin claimed, it is the function of artistic form . to make historical ...

The radical break with the past heralded by the French Revolution in 1789 has become one of the mythic narratives of our time. Yet in the drawn-out...

New framework for the aesthetic representation of the sea.We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refuge...

What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In ...

Anchored in artistic practice, this vibrant collection of essays and writings spans a period from 1992-2017 and the work of leading artists such as...