Theory of Art

Charting over 45 years of feminist debate on the significance of gender in the making and understanding of art, the long-anticipated new edition of...

Most talk of and writing on art is about its relationship to creation and creativity. This of course takes various forms, but ultimately the creati...

Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark wo...

Many people who live in and visit the Lake District are charmed by the traditional buildings that enhance the landscape. This book introduces t...

This short book introduces the reader to the key concepts in art from ancient times to the present day. Unlike many previous publications, in which...

Following on from her bestselling book How to Survive Modern Art, Susie Hodge once again tackles a dauntingly complex subject: how can we evaluate,...

Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examine...

Dominicus Lampsonius's The Life of Lambert Lombard (1565) is the earliest published biography of a Netherlandish artist. This neo-Latin account of ...

How is art criticism to be understood within an expanding artistic field? A look at its history and its manifestations within globalized conditions...

Sculpture is just a word, an English word, which elicits an image in the minds eye. Sculpture is a European idea. In China statues, stele and other...

Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Artists on Art reveals what matters most to the masters. You'll discove...

''Roy Strong''s diaries are a treasure . . . magnificently readable'' THE TIMES''Essential reading'' TATLER''When it comes to viperish high-society...

John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of ...

Virgina Woolfs collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's wr...

Interestinguseful for photographers as a reference book. Amateur Photographer Has pink always been feminine and blue a mans colour? Why are we gree...

Despite being one of the foremost American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century, Harold Rosenberg (19061978) was utterly incapable of fitting...

The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of cont...