Theory of Art

On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive,...

The more complex a human action is, the greater the need to formulate a plan of action, devise a method of implementation, and evaluate its executi...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history. Examining artworks by Kader Atti...

How are we to understand how the dominance of visual images and representations in late modernity affects Social Work practice, research and educat...

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine ...

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine ...

The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlin...

Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visu...

Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observi...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

Having been mistakenly perceived as a follower of Salvador Dalí, Catalan surrealist painter and writer Àngel Planells (19011989) has passed through...

First published in 1985, this book draws together the authors artistic with analytical practices which had been developed over many years of sociol...

This study is an analysis of 'high' and 'late' modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s and early 1970s. Through a close reading of a selec...

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual d...

First published in 1999, this book asks what kind of advice was available to somebody wishing to embark upon oil painting in England between 1850 a...

This volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity for Italy by exporting literal...

The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary the...

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schieles work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artists visual b...

Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book inv...

This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and o...

When the body is foregrounded in artwork as in much contemporary performance, sculptural installation and video work so is gendered and sexualise...

Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship. Navigating no...

This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie...