Theory of art

Guattari Reframed presents a timely and urgent rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century's most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers.

Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of language and thought.

Clay is universally recognized as a medium of creative expression, and it also has great potential for therapeutic application.

Georges Bataille's influence upon 20th-century philosophy is hard to overstate.

Develops Heidegger''s argument that art can help lead society beyond the nihilism of the modern age.

Rosalind Krauss is, without visible rival, the most influential American art writer since Clement Greenberg.

Contemporary
discussions of the image like to emphasize art's societal functions.

The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song dance, and fiction.

A contemporary and interdisciplinary perspective on the study of art, connecting and integrating ideas from across the humanities and sciences.

Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century.

In this second book of her trailblazing trilogy, Marsha Meskimmon proposes that decolonial, ecocritical, feminist art's histories can unravel the anthropocentric legacies of Eurocentric universalism, to create transformative conversations between and across many and more-than-human worlds.

Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity.

The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics, and moral psychology.

Landscape Architecture Criticism offers techniques, perspectives and theories which relate to landscape architecture, a field very different from the more well-known domains of art and architectural criticism.

Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries.

Over the past twenty-five years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines.

This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sapmi, and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s.

Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Communist Manifesto.

What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists?

This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art.

This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.

Noël Carroll is one of the most prolific, widely-cited and distinguished philosophers of art, but how, specifically, has cinema impacted his thought?

This book presents both a historical survey and a critical re-evaluation of the contested and contingent nature of the medium of painting over the last 60 years.

The book brings together a selection of Malcolm Budd's essays in aesthetics.

Lassen sich für die Kunst noch begriffliche Grenzen ziehen?

The avant garde is dead, or so the story goes for many leftists and capitalists alike.

The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings.

If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "e;it is the function of artistic form.

Graffiti and street art images are ubiquitous, and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their ambiguous nature.

Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity.

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

This book demonstrates how artists have radically revisited the genre of the self-portrait by using a range of technologies and media that mark different phases in what can be described as a history of self- or selves-production.

Art and science work is experiencing a dramatic rise coincident with burgeoning Science and Technology Studies (STS) interest in this area.

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

Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "e;of"e;.

This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art history.

Contemporary
discussions of the image like to emphasize art's societal functions.

'Little madnesses' are our most deeply felt enthusiasms, investments and attachments in the sphere of culture.

Pearson brings a cogent, well-argued case for the understanding of much prehistoric art as shamanistic practice.

The book combines candid dialogue, photographs of their drawings, and practical teaching notes.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought a massive change in every domain of life, particularly in the cultural sector, where artists were suddenly "e;free"e; from party-mandated modes of representation and now could promote and sell their work globally.

This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selz's own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler's Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art.

In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale of earth's failed ecosystem, WALL-E.

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices.

This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature.

What makes art 'feminist art'?

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.

Print is an exciting and dynamic design area, with new analogue and digital technologies opening up a wealth of creative possibilities for designers in textile and non-textile media.

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key concepts in Neoplatonic aesthetics?