Theory of art

Mit der Suche nach dem im elterlichen Garten vergrabenen Gorilla beginnt Valérie Favres Reise in die Welt der Imagination, der Fantasien, Alpträume, Erinnerungen und Werke der Kunstgeschichte.

A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century Art is the language that speaks to the soul Why do we make art?

This title was first published in 2003.

Addressed to students of the image-both art historians and students of visual studies-this book investigates the history and nature of time in a variety of different environments and media as well as the temporal potential of objects.

Der Band fragt nach dem Verhältnis zwischen spätantiker neuplatonischer Philosophie und Ästhetik und nach seinen historisch-kulturellen Verwandlungsgestalten.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses idolatry, a contested issue that has given rise to both religious accusations and heated scholarly disputes.

Eine Anregung zum Weiterlesen eines wirkungsmächtigen Autors der Kulturgeschichte.

This third volume in the Consciousness Reframed series, documenting the very latest artistic and theoretical research in new media and telematics including aspects of artificial life, robotics, technoetics, performance, computer music and intelligent architecture.

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.

This ground-breaking book presents a critical study of pictorial narrative in nineteenth-century European painting.

A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art''s complex relationship to power.

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms.

Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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

This interdisciplinary anthology explores the complex relationships in an artist's life between fact and fiction, presentation and existence, and critique and creation, and examines the work that ultimately results from these tensions.

From its foundation in 1957 to its self-dissolution in 1972, the Situationist International established itself as one of the most radical revolutionary organisations of the twentieth century.

The 3rd edition of Color Studies introduces students from all concentrations of visual arts to color theory, the physiology and psychology of color perception, and the physics of color.

In der Tradition Warburgs stehend prasentiert die Kolleg-Forschergruppe Bildakt und Verkorperung im Londoner Warburg Institute einen Einblick in ihre gemeinsame Arbeit: Bildakt at the Warburg Institute versammelt vielfaltige Erkundungen zu Geschichte, Philosophie und Anthropologie des Bildakts, wissenschaftstheoretischen und methodischen Aspekten der Bildakttheorie, der Rolle der Bildwahrnehmung in der Philosophie des Extended Mind, Phanomenen haptischer Bilderfahrung in Mittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit, korpergebundenen Kommunikationsprozessen, zeichenphilosophischen Aspekten des ikonologischen Denkens und der lebendigen Dynamik innerer und auerer Bewegung in Bild und Sprache.

Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one.

The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence.

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known.

 This edited book considers the impact of neoliberalism on music teaching, research and scholarship in a higher education context.

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.

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.

Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis considers the phenomenon of the continued relevance of collage, a form established over a hundred years ago, to contemporary literature.

The post humanist movement which currently traverses various disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as the role that the thought of Deleuze and Guattari has had in the course of this movement, has given rise to new practices in architecture and urban theory.

Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life.

A new theory of moral and aesthetic value for the age of remix, going beyond the usual debates over originality and appropriation.

Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y.

This book is a significant re-thinking of Duchamp's importance in the twenty-first century, taking seriously the readymade as a critical exploration of object-oriented relations under the conditions of consumer capitalism.

Interior Design on Edge explores ways that interiors both constitute and upset our edges, whether physical, conceptual or psychological, imagined, implied, necessary or discriminatory.

This title was first published in 2002.

Corporate sponsorship and business involvement in the visual arts have become increasingly common features of our cultural lives.

In 2008 an Iraqi artist was waterboarded as performance art.

Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labor theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity.

Just as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was seeking re-election on a campaign of "e;no experiments,"e; art avant-garde groups in West Germany were reviving the utopian impulse to unite art and society.

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies.

Music, Art and Diplomacy shows how a vibrant field of cultural exchange between East and West was taking place during the Cold War, which contrasts with the orthodox understanding of two divided and antithetical blocs.

How various mythologies challenge, enable, and inspire women artists and activists across the globe to communicate personal and historical experiences of violence is the central concern of this collection.