Theory of Art

Postmodernism has come and gone, but the belief that artists and works of art are exceptional is alive and well. Post-Exceptionalism speculates tha...

Abstraction is one of the most important words in modernism and in the critical thought of modernity, yet its complex work is invariably hidden in ...

Exploring a breathtaking range of imagined cities submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined and salvaged this book teases ou...

Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture that considers the terms complex registers across emb...

Starting from the premise that after modernism and postmodernism in the Anthropocene an artwork cannot rest upon its separation from the planet, ...

Why do we need art? What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How i...

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By connecting ideas about faith with...

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, disability and Crip theory...

This book considers the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicotts (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding tr...

Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Providing interdisciplinary and international ...

Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

This book reclaims Hegels notion of the end of artor, more precisely, of arts past characternot just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as...

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960sfrom minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-spe...

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century Anti-Aesthetic movement an...