Theory of Art

This book is the first substantial study of the presence and relationship with the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in modern Br...

Post-Traumatic Art in the City comprises an original analysis of the nexus of war, art and urban society in two specific contexts: late 20th-centur...

What images come to mind with the words women, aging, old, even elderly? Are they stereotypes? Are there any positive associations? The thirteen co...

Todays many popular aesthetic pleasures have a very long history. Paul Duncum considers the historical critical discourses, and socio-political iss...

How do modern writers write colour? How do todays readers respond to the invitation to think colour as they read poetry and art writing, and explor...

In Images of War in Contemporary Art, Uro Cvoro and Kit Messham-Muir mount a challenge to the dominance of theoretical tropes of trauma, affect, an...

How to Make the Body: Difference, Identity, and Embodiment brings together contemporary and historical readings of the body, exploring the insights...

In an age of protest, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests of museum funding (for example, the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler ...

Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the ex...

Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the...

The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject. Its purpose was to provide a visual or psychologica...

This book explores ideologies, conflicts and ideas that underpinned art historical writing in Ukraine in the 20th century.Disciplinary beginnings t...

Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and ass...

This book is the result of selective research papers that were presented at the First International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communicatio...

The Situationist International were a group of anti-authoritarian, highly cultured, revolutionary artists whose energy and enragement fundamentally...

The book illustrates ten locations of extraordinary artistic and architectural interest, conceived by prominent Italian families and dynasties as u...

This edited volume explores the historical, practical and pedagogical possibilities for expressing and cultivating empathy through works of art. Wh...

Das vorliegende Buch Der Mensch, das Spiel und der Zufall bietet eine historisch-systematische Analyse des Gewinnspiels und seines ewigen Reizes fü...

Das vorliegende Buch Der Mensch, das Spiel und der Zufall bietet eine historisch-systematische Analyse des Gewinnspiels und seines ewigen Reizes fü...

The terms figure and ground became fundamental to art-historical analysis and writing over the course of the twentieth century. But is this dichot...

Der maskuline Maschinenmann, der sich seit den 1980er Jahren mit Vorstellungen eines virilen und hypermuskulösen Männerkörpers verbindet, gehört in...

If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, it is the function of artistic form.to make historical content into a philosophical truth then it is the function o...

This book introduces a compelling new personality to the modernist canon, Marisa Mori (1900-1985), who became the only female contributor to The Fu...