Theory of art

A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world.

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.

A TLS Book of the Year 2017In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country's most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to examine the region's contemporary art, culture and and theory.

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of taste.

Das Politische steht heute vor dem Problem, die Verantwortung über die technischen Bedingungen der Gegenwartskultur notwendigerweise wiederzuerlangen.

Bilder zeigen – dies scheint die Prämisse alles Bildhaften zu sein.

Any level of study within literature and culture requires an engagement with a wider scope of themes, issues and discourses, and these debates are often centred around key 'essays'.

The Performing Observer is a collection of short, critical writings on contemporary art, performance, and photography written over the course of the past two decades.

In recent years, the rise of research-creation-a scholarly activity that considers art practices as research methods in their own right-has emerged from the organic convergences of the arts and interdisciplinary humanities, and it has been fostered by universities wishing to enhance their public profiles.

The emergence and the activities of a second public sphere in the areas of Soviet influence were intricately linked to the performative and intermedial production and usage of alternative spaces.

This volume focuses on the unstudied geographic margins of Dada, delving into the roots of Dada in Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America.

Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts.

Am Beispiel der beiden Künstler Pater Wolfram Plotzke und Fritz Leisse stellt Verena Pöppelbaum den Wert der regionalen Kunst wie auch die Bedeutung für den Unterricht heraus.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that are attached to them and the implications they have for notions of identity, memory, gender, cultural belonging and political action.

What makes a work of art a masterpiece?

How are we to understand how the dominance of visual images and representations in late modernity affects Social Work practice, research and education?

Wenn wir über AKTUELLE TENDENZEN sprechen, wo fängt dieses Gespräch an und wo hört es auf?

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.

The book is a collection of fifteen introductory essays excerpted from the Annual of Contemporary Art in China, covering the years from 2005 to 2019, showcasing the development and changing landscapes of contemporary art in China.

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

The Elements of Art deconstructs great works of art into manageable components so that you can better understand and appreciate them.

Stilbewusst und (selbst-) kritisch kommentiert Zimmer in seinem Tagebuch das gesellschaftliche Klima im Nachkriegsdeutschland.

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.

The 'theoretical turn' within the arts and humanities in the 1970s and 1980s has, for many, had its day, with work produced under its rubric all too often feeling tired or even downright lazy.

What is the role of design research in the types of insight and knowledge that architects create?

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling.

Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts and anthropology.

Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities.

"Was macht ein Meisterwerk aus?

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

'ASHE: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners.