Theory of art

This book provides a critical reappraisal of Barbara Creed's ground-breaking work of feminist psychoanalytic film scholarship, The Monstrous-Feminine, which was first published in 1993.

Pursuing a new and timely line of research in world art studies, Humor in Global Contemporary Art is the first edited collection to examine the role of culturally specific humor in contemporary art from a global perspective.

Gender Studies sind in letzter Zeit von unterschiedlichen Seiten unter Beschuss geraten: Die einen monieren, dass im Zuge der Verwissenschaftlichung von feministischer Gesellschaftskritik das ursprüngliche Anliegen, die Stärkung von Frauen, aus dem Blick gerückt sei; die Vervielfältigung von Differenz in den Theoriediskussionen führe zu einer Erhöhung von Komplexität, die politisch nicht einzuholen sei.

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art.

Aby Warburg gilt als Wegbereiter der modernen Kulturwissenschaften.

Having been mistakenly perceived as a follower of Salvador Dali, Catalan surrealist painter and writer Angel Planells (1901-1989) has passed through the history of art practically unnoticed.

Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines.

This volume presents a contrastive study of the overlapping careers of Shakespeare and Caravaggio through the comparison of their strikingly similar conventional belief in symbol and the centrality of the subject, only to gradually open it up in an exaltation of multiplicity and the "e;indistinct regard"e; (Othello).

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in early modern English drama.

First published in 1962, Hogarth and his Place in European Art attempts to convey the historical relevance, both in its native and European context, of perhaps the most outstanding English painter of the eighteenth century.

In this impassioned and persuasive book, Bill Ivey, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, assesses the current state of the arts in America and finds cause for alarm.

In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination.

Data and its technologies now play a large and growing role in humanities research and teaching.

A collection presenting cutting edge research from music, dance, performance art, fashion and visual arts, written by scholar-practitioners working in Southeast Asia.

Das Thema Rassismus zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch das Werk von Dany Laferrière.

Mit DeConceptualize – Zur Dekonstruktion des Konzeptuellen in Kunst, Film, Musik legt Stefan Römer nach Strategien des Fake (2001) und Inter-esse (2014) sein drittes Theoriebuch vor, das durch das Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung ermöglicht wurde.

The Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty-and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging.

If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human.

This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist.

This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards.

Psychoanalysts have long been fascinated with creative artists, but have paid far less attention to the men and women who motivate, stimulate, and captivate them.

This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies.

Longlisted for the Historians of British Art (HBA) Book Prize 2022Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science.

Notions of identity have long structured women's art.

Illustrated by critical analyses of significant buildings, including examples by such eminent architects as Adler and Sullivan, Erich Mendelsohn, and Louis Kahn, this book examines collaboration in the architectural design process over a period ranging from the mid-19th century to the late 1960s.

Since Marcel Duchamp created his 'readymades' a century ago - most famously christening a urinal as a fountain - the practice of incorporating commodity objects into art has become ever more pervasive.

Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new historicist literary criticism and philosophy yet have been under-utilised by artists, art historians and art critics.

The authenticity of visual art has always commanded the attention of experts, dealers, collectors, and the art-minded public.

This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists and artworks have actively engaged in conversation with Christianity.

Der "theoretische Roman" ›Bebuquin‹ (1912) des Autors, Kritikers und Kunsthistorikers Carl Einstein (1885–1940) gilt als einer der radikalsten Texte der deutschsprachigen Moderne.

Major changes are affecting the cultural sector around the world, and there is a need for new skills and knowledge in arts and cultural administration.

Aesthetics has long been the preserve of philosophy, art history, and the creative arts but, more recently, the fields of psychology and neuroscience have entered the discussion, and the field of neuroaesthetics has been born.

A new study of the early Renaissance portraitIn fourteenth-century Italy, ever more women and mennot only clergy but also laityintroduced their own portraits into sacred paintings.

Beholding considers the spatially situated encounter between artwork and spectator.

Mit der Bestimmung der Form im Digitalen und der spezifischen Eigenschaften digitaler Formerzeugung sucht der neue Band der "Bildwelten des Wissens" ein Konkretum der Analyse digitaler Bildlichkeit.

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "e;aesthetics"e; from the narrow confines it is often reduced to.

Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions.

This collection offers a response to the view that migration disrupts national heritage.