Theory of Art

Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Usin...

An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon''s iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)-a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact. The ...

Beneath the surface of pictures lie the extensive networks of relationships and associations that tie us to them, sometimes in extraordinary ways. ...

Making van Gogh focuses on the uvre of Vincent van Gogh in the context of its reception. The publication examines the particular role which German ...

The monochrome - a single-colour work of art - is highly ambiguous. For some it epitomizes purity, and is art reduced to its essence. For others it...

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As...

The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers ...

In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed...

I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angr...

What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. Th...

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone--the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the ...

From the Bauhaus to Buckminster Fuller, from Elvis to ecology, the writings of John McHale (1922-1978) engage a diverse set of concerns. The Expend...

Mark C. Taylor's latest book is a philosophy of silence for our nervous, chattering age. How do we find silence--and more importantly, how do we un...