Theory of Art

Das Buch steht im Zusammenhang des Versuches, die zentrale Rolle der Bilder für die Ausbildung der modernen Philosophie am Beispiel bedeutender Ges...

This book reclaims Hegel’s notion of the “end of art”—or, more precisely, of “art’s past character”—not just as a piece of the history of philosoph...

During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society, as described by a member of the ...

This book explores the relationship between ekphrasis and memory in the novel. Drawing on À la recherche du temps perdu, Leonid Bilmes considers ho...

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Wilhelm Worringer’s landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact ...

This book is a defense of perspectivism in the age of post-truth. At the crossroads of science, art, and philosophy, it unearths a tradition that w...

When Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900, he began the modern study of a phenomenon that has fascinated human beings for t...

In this fascinating look at the creators of artistic fakes and copies, Sándor Radnóti explores the role of the faker in the art world, and tackles ...

In At the Edges of Vision, Renée van de Vall re-examines the aesthetics of spectatorship in terms of new-media art and visual culture. The aestheti...

There are many ways to picture the world - Australian `x-ray' pictures, cubist collages, Amerindian split-style figures, and pictures in two-point ...

Many art historians regard poststructuralist theory with suspicion; some even see its focus on the political dimension of language as hostile to an...

Nikolaus Pevsner was one of the most important and influential art historians of the twentieth century. He opened up new areas of enquiry in the hi...

This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. Expanding upon longstandi...

Looks at the work of a diverse range of artists and explores the effect of feminist theory on art practice. The book provides a provocative and val...

This second book in Moshe Barasch's series on art theory surveys the development of the field from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centu...

Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War is a history of art during wartime that analyzes images in various media that circulated ...

Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts examines art historical writing as an expressive medium, capable of emotion and reflection - and therefore de...

Providing a fresh perspective on an important but underappreciated group of late nineteenth-century French painters, this is the first book to prov...

This title was first published in 2002. This really is a text that will fill a long-felt want. A key figure in that history is Amédée Ozenfant, pai...

This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies. It provides the basis for understanding the found...

This book, the first in Moshe Barasch's series on art theory, offers a comprehensive analysis and reassessment of major trends in European art theo...

In this volume, the third in his classic series on art theory, Moshe Barasch traces the hidden patterns and interlocking themes in the study of art...

Looks at the work of a diverse range of artists and explores the effect of feminist theory on art practice. The book provides a provocative and val...

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as we...

Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics theorises images from Attie's 'The Writing on the Wall 1991-1993' installation as a...

What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically, others the latter...

This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significanc...

Ruskin, the great Victorian critics of art and society, had an enormous influence on his age and our own. A highly successful propagandist for the ...

In this study, first published in 1979, Landow contends that Hunt’s version of Pre-Raphaelitism concerned itself primarily with an elaborate system...

Recent decades have seen photography’s privileged relationship to the real come under question. Spurred by the postmodern critique of photography i...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms ...

In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and D...