Theory of Art

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has described Morphology as a science dedicated to the observation and description of everything «that is handled by cha...

Reframing anthropology: contemporary art, curatorial practice, postcolonial activism, and museumsHow can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In ...

This compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography's development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade accou...

Problematic assumptions which see humans as special and easily defined as standing apart from animals, plants, and microbiota, both consciously and...

This volume brings together the finest research on aesthetics and the philosophy of art by stalwart critics and leading scholars in the field. It d...

This book investigates the power of art to enhance human development and to initiate positive social change for individuals and societies recoverin...

Ein künstlerisches Forschungsbuch Die Monografie von und über Payer Gabriel ist eine antidisziplinäre Enzyklopädie, die ihre etymologische Herkunf...

Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip i...

This book investigates the power of art to enhance human development and to initiate positive social change for individuals and societies recoverin...

Ein Künstlerbuch über Bilder von Bildern In Jari Gensers künstlerischer Arbeit spielt die Wiederholung eine zentrale Rolle: Er malt Bilder, die im...

With an introduction by Hubertus von Amelunxen Media philosopher Vilem Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An a...

Drawing on an interdisciplinary panel of contributors, this book presents a stimulating dialogue between economics and art theory and considers how...

What can philosophy reveal about painting and how might it deepen our understanding of this enduring art form? Philosophy of Painting investigates ...

One of the best-known continental theorists writing today, Gérard Genette here explores our aesthetic relation to works of art. Through an analysis...

This book traces the history of three dimensional perspective in art from prehistoric and ancient times, during which the portrayal of depth was...

Interdisciplinary educational turn The challenges of a complex and volatile world require solutions that reconcile divergent perspectives and inte...

"A Companion volume to James Hall’s perennial seller Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art. which deals with the subject matter of Christian ...

Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aest...

The question posed by Herman Rapaport, in the title of this book, is intended both seriously and ironically. It is not Rapaport's purpose to debate...

Imagine a world in which each individual has a fundamental right to be reborn. This idle dream haunts Hilde Van Gelder's associative travelogue tha...

Schule Oswald Oberhuber im Porträt Die Publikation erschließt die vielschichtige Praxis von Oswald Oberhuber (1931–2020), die von den 1970er- bis ...

Michael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product of a dynamic exchange between pas...

Working Space affords a rare opportunity to view painting from the inside out, through the eyes of one of the world’s most prominent abstract paint...

What art is—its very nature—is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing today. Informed by the aesth...

Barbis Ruder: 10 Jahre Performancekunst Im Fokus der Arbeiten der Performance- und Medienkünstlerin Barbis Ruder steht der Körper – als Ausgangs- ...

Zwei Werkserien von Jeremias Altmann In seiner künstlerischen Arbeit beschäftigt sich Jeremias Altmann mit den Themen Maschine, Mensch und Entwick...

Modern Ekphrasis explores the analogical relations between modern poetry and painting in ekphrasis from Horace’s mimetic «ut pictura poesis» tradit...

This new study traces the development and evolution of the writings of Roger Fry (1866-1934), a highly influential art critic who introduced modern...

One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means au...

Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach demonstrates how video art functions on the basis of a comparative media approach, providing a crucial und...

From the Preface:"The essays in Feminist Art Criticism are theoretical, and we selected them for several reasons. First, they show a diversity of c...

Revolutionized by the sophisticated and refined works of Donatello and his contemporaries, relief sculpture acquired an unprecedented status during...

Experiences of Art: Reflections on Masterpieces is a book that explores the history of art through the insights of students and critics. It engages...

What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as...

What is real? What is true? Picturing Figures and Faces collects theoretical essays and artists' studies, published between 1988 and 2019, devoted ...

Over 1,400 articles in this volume cover all the major artistic developments in Central and South America and the Caribbean from the colonial perio...

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known. Less well known, however, is that over a career that spans nearly fifty ...

What is unique and essential about theatre? What separates it from other arts? Do we need 'theatre' in some fundamental way? The art of theatre, as...

Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even nausea. Yet paradoxically, disgusting objects ca...

Writing Borderless Histories of Art is an aspirational, historical, and critical project that offers a fundamental rethinking of the relationship o...

This book examines the pivotal role of Johann Joachim Winckelmann as an arbiter of classical taste. It identifies the key features of Winckelmann's...

This new Reader offers an important new resource, combining classic accounts of the nature of aesthetics with the latests methods of approaching th...

Writing Borderless Histories of Art is an aspirational, historical, and critical project that offers a fundamental rethinking of the relationship o...

In the words of Richard Gregory `Here are to be found novel links to art and science, and to mind and brain... These many themes are captured to we...