Theory of Art

Part of the acclaimed ''Documents of Contemporary Art'' series of anthologies . Amidst current global uncertainty failure has become a central su...

In our age of fast-paced biotechnological progress and humans' increasing impact on the environment the autonomy of 'nature' has come into question...

The German writer and art critic Carl Einstein (18851940) has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the history of modern art, and yet h...

American Civil Warera art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have...

Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happ...

Manifestos by artists, authors, editors, publishers, designers, zinesters explore publishing as artistic practice. Independent publishing, art p...

The Art of Eliza Ivanova is an evocative, edgy, and beautiful book filled with the work of this exciting artist. A graduate of the California Insti...

The avant garde is dead, or so the story goes for many leftists and capitalists alike. But in an era of neoliberal austerity, neocolonial militaris...

The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new tra...

This book is about the destruction of art, both in terms of objects that have been destroyed lost in fires, floods or vandalism and the general c...

There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of questions about the arts (broadly defined to in...

Wild Art refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, un...

Visioning Israel-Palestine strives to cultivate recognition of the part that cultural products have played in the duplication of the Israeli-Palest...

'the mundane becomes special as soon as you pay attention to it' - Susan HillerThis essential guide delves into the techniques, routines and mindse...

In this investigative tour de force, now available in a new format edition, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring t...

In The Book of Circles, his companion volume to the popular Book of Trees, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millenia of information de...

Art can seem very separate from our daily lives today, and, as our society careens its way through change and conflict, it may seem increasingly ...

The Books That Shaped Art History provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of the most important texts of art history ...

This title takes an immanent turn in art history. Immanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not...