Theory of Art

From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination...

The Colour Bible is one to return to again and again. - ElephantThis definitive guide...will no doubt inform many future colour choices. - House &a...

A beguiling cultural history of colour by the BAFTA nominated broadcaster and art historian James Fox''This book is a triumph. James Fox''s passion...

Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939) was an artist, collector, scholar, and historian working at the dawn of the 20th century. Her first and most pro...

How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professi...

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human e...

Part of the acclaimed ''Documents of Contemporary Art'' series of anthologies . Nature, as both subject and object, has repeatedly been rejected ...

Molly Bang''s brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang''s powerful ideas-about how...

This is the first sustained phenomenological approach to modern art, taking a new approach and drawing upon an unusual selection of thinkers. As a ...

Real Likenesses presents a radical new approach to artistic representation. At its heart is a serious reconsideration of the relationship between m...