Theory of Art

First published in 1952, John Constable and the Fishers is based on original letters which have never been published in full before. These have bee...

In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as R...

The relevance of painting has been questioned many times over the last century, by the arrival of photography, installation art and digital technol...

The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists a...

A detailed reading of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's 1886 novel L'Eve future, this study explores the author's construction of the android woman from tw...

In The Chinese Atlantic, Sean Metzger charts processes of global circulation across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new u...

Before becoming a poet, Charles Baudelaire was an art critic; and he made his literary début with the Salon de 1845. Its failure to find a receptiv...

This study explores the significance of art in Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy. The main object of the work is to discuss the notion of art and its con...

'WHAT TO READ IN 2025' FINANCIAL TIMES Many artists are unaware of the mathematics that bubble beneath their craft, while so...

Welche Schwierigkeiten und Möglichkeiten der visuellen Darstellung verbinden sich mit dem Ende der kommunistischen Herrschaft im östlichen Europa? ...

More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the arti...

Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the litera...

The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists a...

Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the litera...

Within the wide range of writings on performance studies, theoreticians and practitioners have been using the concepts of performance and performat...

Dieser Papst Benedikt XVI. gewidmete Band erschließt das Thema «Logos und Musik» in systematischer und historischer Hinsicht. Fachkundige Vertreter...

Among Hawthorne’s primary themes, the visual arts have usually been regarded as an afterthought and have only been examined to elucidate his own pe...