Theory of art

The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the 'old world' of factbased systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerging hyper-individual politics of aestheticized emotion.

Cine Craft (1974) is an ideal guide to the world of amateur film making, a treasure-house of authoritative information.

Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture's entanglement with contemporary image culture.

This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International's influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted.

In den Jahren 1840 und 1841 erscheinen im J.

Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a ''sister-art'' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

By inviting a 'conversation' between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to Cezanne-the 'father of modern art'-and perhaps the most vital body of theory in contemporary psychoanalysis, 'post-Bionian field theory', as it has been evolving in Italy in the hands of Antonino Ferro, Giuseppe Civitarese, and others.

Full of beautiful, intricate hand-painted color wheels and practical advice on using and mixing color, this book is a must-have for any artist working with pigment and paint.

A ground-breaking new anthology in the Art in Theory series, offering an examination of the changing relationships between the West and the wider world in the field of art and material culture Art in Theory: The West in the World is a ground-breaking anthology that comprehensively examines the relationship of Western art to the art and material culture of the wider world.

What makes a person an artist?

A key publication on colour theory from a pioneering female scientist, this unique work explores the world of colour, reimagining foundational theories for practical use in the fields of art, science, and design.

What do Persian robes of honour, 20th-century still-life painting, fur garments, and 18th-century porcelain all have in common?

The idea of 'flirting' with space is central to this book.

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, disability and Crip theory, this book offers an analysis of the conceptualisation of ability in art education and its relationship with disability.

This is book I of the "e;Augsburg's Drawing"e; series, a three-book course designed to teach children how to draw.

The Critical Imagination is a study of metaphor, imaginativeness, and criticism of the arts.

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.

Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination.

Social arts are manifold and are initiated by multiple actors, spaces, and direction from many directions and intentions, but generally they aim to generate personal, familial, group, community or general social transformation which can maintain and enhance personal and community resilience, communication, negotiation, and transitions, as well as help with community building and rehabilitation, civic engagement, social inclusion, and cohesion.

This book explores the universal human existential trauma of "e;original loss,"e; a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evolutionary loss of experiencing ourselves as innately belonging to, and instinctively at home within, the larger natural world.

Kamel Daoud, Picasso und der Dschihadist – ein Kulturclash der besonderen Art.

A Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture.

By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a regular feature in many conceptual artworks.

This book addresses the environmental challenges that Libya and similar countries in the regions are currently facing.

Surrealism has long been recognised as having made a major contribution to film theory and practice, and many contemporary film-makers acknowledge its influence.

This title was first published in 2002.

Romanticized notions of how one becomes an artist have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind eye to the politics of exclusionism that characterize the art world and conforming our creative potential to well-trodden stereotypes?

This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history.

This book sheds new light on those who inherit Spinoza''s thought and its consequences materially rather than metaphysically.

This book investigates the power of art to enhance human development and to initiate positive social change for individuals and societies recovering from conflict.

Part of JRP|Ringier's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Rel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.

Sound is an integral part of contemporary art.

Precarious objects explores the traffic between design and activism by telling stories drawn from contemporary counter-precarity cases in Italy.

Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale, while also comparing the attitudes toward aging in Native American, African American, and Anglo American literature.

The collection, interpretation and display of art from the People's Republic of China, and particularly the art of the Cultural Revolution, have been problematic for museums.

Art troubles anthropology.

Ausgehend von der Struktur der Übertragung nach Jacques Lacan entwickelt Übertragung im Theater eine Methode der Aufführungsanalyse, die darstellende Kunst als genuin intersubjektiv und damit potentiell sozial und politisch definiert.

Based on an extensive and very meticulous study of different archives and the evaluation of original, previously unpublished, archival material, this book highlights the key aspects and trends of the European and American art markets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system.

This book examines how contemporary artworks can affect our psychology, producing immersive experiences.