Theory of Art

In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an...

In the face of the contested legacy of engagement in the Francophone context, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates that French and Franco...

Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a s...

John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half h...

The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influe...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDLooking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or expr...

Art historian and curator Dawn Ades is a leading voice on Dada, Surrealism, abstraction and art from Latin America. This volume collects her import...

In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms m...

The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting is a new critical translation of René Brimos classic study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patr...

Bookwork takes our passion for books to its logical extreme - by studying artists who employ found or simulated books as a sculptural medium and in...