Theory of Art

This essay is an interdisciplinary study of what is cognitively going on when we interpret, represent, or evaluate cultural entities, works of art ...

Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, eith...

Over the last two decades, multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, and technology have seen the light of day. ...

The first English-language monograph on the French dancer and model, Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture explores the haunting ...

Focusing on his evocative and profound references to children and their stories, Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph Cornell...

Challenging the notion that fashion and furniture were or are separate enterprises and distinct material aesthetic traditions, this collection focu...

The term «house of art» designates the cultural phenomenon and creative mode in modernity associated with an artist’s residence as his own creation...

The Sense of Semblance is the first book to incorporate contemporary analytic philosophy in interpretations of art and architecture, literature, an...

Dada magazines made Dada what it was: diverse, non-hierarchical, transnational, and defiant of the most fundamental artistic conventions. This book...

Queer Pollen discusses three notable black queer twentieth century artists--painter and writer Richard Bruce Nugent, author James Baldwin, and film...

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little con...

Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "...

The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the Greeks. The Christian tradition is closely entwine...

While written sources on the history of Greece have been studied extensively, no systematic attempt has been made to examine photography as an impo...

Georges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher of images whose work is overdue for attention from English-language readers. Since the publication of his fi...

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little con...

Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous Interiors addresses the broad cultural, historical, and theoretical implications...

This book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers, begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four s...

This book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers, begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four s...

The work of mid-twentieth century art theorist Anton Ehrenzweig is explored in this original and timely study. An analysis of the dynamic and invig...

Ambitious in scope and innovative in concept, this book offers an overview and critique of the conventions surrounding artistic creativity and inte...

This third volume of Naturally Hypernatural explores contemporary concepts of landscape in the humanities and the arts in relation to the notion th...

The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a mat...