Theory of Art

No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion...

Deeply learned, and with a style all his own, Marco Grassi is as at home with Duccio as he is with Norton Simon; Bronzino as with Bernard Berenson;...

Philosophers say what art is and then scientists and then other scholars study how we are equipped, cognitively and socially, to make art and appre...

This intriguing book investigates the very rare discovery of a huge, lost, Last Supper painting produced in the workshop of Tiziano Vecellio, known...

This book focuses on the philosophical, artistic, and scientific forces that impacted on the humanist of the late Medieval and Renaissance period, ...

The central argument of "Chromophobia" is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through colour - lurks within much We...

Josef Albers' groundbreaking series Homage to the Square comprises roughly two thousand oil paintings. His continuous reflections and refinements f...

Victorians’ views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in peopl...

Die Schriftenreihe Notizen zu Uecker macht die Forschungsergebnisse der StipendiatInnen des Günther Uecker Instituts der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich....

Almost more than artists, art critics today form an elite class that legislates cultural tastes. The Crisis of Criticism is a collection of brillia...

This book exposes the charlatanry that fuels much academic art history today and leaks into the art world generally.

What are musical works? Are they discovered or created? Of what elements are they comprised? How are they specified by notations? What makes a perf...

In his earlier books, Shadows in the Cave (1982) and Phenomenological Hermeneutics and the Study of Literature (1987), Mario Valdés laid the founda...

Richard Wollheim's (1923-2003) was the leading voice in the philosophy of art in the Anglo-American tradition during the second half of the twentie...

Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and has been crucial to the c...

The description for this book, The Voices of Silence: Man and his Art. (Abridged from The Psychology of Art), will be forthcoming.

Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at t...

The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cul...

In this bold exploration of the political forces that shaped Impressionism, Albert Boime proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secr...

The importance of the late 18th century in the genesis of modern art emerges in these four essays on various aspects of the art and architecture of...