Theory of Art

This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became se...

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

This title was first published in 2003. The essay collection explores the conjunctions of nation, gender, and visual representation in a number of ...

This unique collaboration between scholars, practitioners and Muslim artists profiles emerging forms of contemporary British Muslim art, prompting ...

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and exper...

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

Food as social ritual, personal liberation and spiritual alchemy: from Alison Knowles and Adrian Piper to Agnes Denes and Andy Warhol In More Than...

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable... - Cesar A. CruzAcross the centuries, art has held up a mirror to humanity's evolvin...

After a long period of comparative neglect, starting almost immediately upon his death in 1900, John Ruskin began to attract, from the 1960s onward...

'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates an...

The first introduction of the seminal writings of a key Belgian writer and critic to an English-speaking audience.Radically subjective. Radically u...

The newest volume in the beloved ekphrasis series focuses on dance and poetry through the eyes of one of the twentieth centurys greatest critics I...

A holistic and systematic analysis of Ernst Gombrich as theorist Offers the first holistic and systematic analysis of Gombrich's theoretical ideas...

A chronological illustrated analysis of fifty-eight years of work by the collective Art & Language   Art & Language is an artists collectiv...

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen o...