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...

How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist perio...

This book takes a creative approach in examining one of the biggest crises of our time: that of mental suffering, distress and anxiety. By bringing...

Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction befo...

Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of histor...

How do geopolitical, economical, and socio-political upheavals impact the field of art todayThis monograph takes a look at how the increasing multi...

In this book, Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir uncovers the crucial role of esotericism in the art of the Vienna Actionistsa group of Austrian neo-avant-gard...

An edited collection of contributions to conversations about the climate crisis and its role in critical discourse. The climate change crisis has b...

This book is the first to examine Renoirs handling of fashion and textiles, so opening up a fresh approach to the initially fêted artist who came ...

When artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem solving. The first book to trace t...

Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, ...

A Visual Language is a practical introduction to the language of the visual arts, with a strong, innovative methodology. This expanded second editi...

Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new histori...