Theory of Art

Among Hawthorne’s primary themes, the visual arts have usually been regarded as an afterthought and have only been examined to elucidate his own pe...

In the course of one’s life in the academia, one tends to formulate insights on various matters one encounters in a succinct form to share with one...

In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He sugge...

Essays on the nature, production, and presentation of art, craft, and architecture in Japan, inspired by the author’s experiences in Kyoto. Illusor...

In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are...

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have w...

From his early "Curtain Raiser" to the late Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot took an interest in all the arts, drawing on them for poetic inspiration and...

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1898–1962), als Künstler mit den Größen seiner Zeit verbunden, und Ilse Leda (1906–1981), Tänzerin, Tanzpädagogin ...

Exploring 35 years of creative output, this richly illustrated book offers an unprecedented look into Giorgio Armani’s unique aesthetic, corporate ...

Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious design ability. This new ...

This companion is an essential contribution to the study of historical materialism in general and the social history of art in particular.Each chap...

Investigating the complex history of visual art’s engagement with literature, this collection demonstrates that the art of the book is a fully inte...

The book focuses on the phenomenon of a face in philosophical, cognitive, and aesthetical context. Text is divided into two main parts: the first is...

Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious design ability. This new ...

An exploration of modernist women's distinctive role in domestic and cinema arts in the context of current debates about gender and modernism. Phot...

`In this groundbreaking book, Alan Roland′s stated purpose it to integrate psychoanalysis with art and the artist. For those treating artists, or t...

Addressing Spinoza’s perennial question: “why do the masses fight for their servitude as if it was salvation?”, Capitalism and the Limits of Desire...

Examining colonial art through the lens of transculturation, the essays in this collection assess painting, sculpture, photography, illustration an...

Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of "glitch" alongside contemporary digital po...

`In this groundbreaking book, Alan Roland′s stated purpose it to integrate psychoanalysis with art and the artist. For those treating artists, or t...

A case study of the relationship between arts and cultural policy and nationalism, Scotland, CEMA and the Arts Council, 1919-1967: Background, Poli...

This book aims to present trompe-l’œil painting, which epitomizes the myth of the illusionistic image – an early modern way of thinking about pictu...

Alchemy in Contemporary Art analyzes the manner in which twentieth-century artists, beginning with French Surrealists of the 1920s, have appropriat...