Theory of art

Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern.

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

This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies.

Architecture as Civil Commitment analyses the many ways in which Lucio Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political ones.

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele's work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist's visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal, Die Muskete.

With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image.

Emerging Landscapes brings together scholars and practitioners working in a wide range of disciplines within the fields of the built environment and visual arts to explore landscape as an idea, an image, and a material practice in an increasingly globalized world.

This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being.

Originally published in 1969, this project had Wyndham Lewis' personal approval and is a comprehensive anthology of his prose writings, especially those which are difficult to access.

Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state.

In »Schöne Seelen, groteske Körper« liest Maximilian Bergengruen die poetischen Texte Jean Pauls als Philosophie bzw.

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.

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

Celebrar el arte y la interpretación como prácticas capaces de abordar los desafíos sociales es lo que propone Doris Sommer en este libro.

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling.

Since the 1970s, it has been argued that Abstract Expressionism was exhibited abroad by the post-war US establishment in an attempt to culturally match and reinforce its newfound economic and military dominance.

This monograph brings three branches of philosophy together: epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.

Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the complex aesthetic process of "e;picturing"e; in early modern English literature.

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

Was Kunst weiß, befreit, weil es das Wissen irre macht.

This fully revised and updated third edition offers students and artists valuable insights into traditional color theory and its practical application using today's cutting-edge technology.

First published in 1980.

Taking as its point of departure Roland Barthes' classic series of essays, Mythologies, Rebecca Houze presents an exploration of signs and symbols in the visual landscape of postmodernity.

Dies ist die erste, große zusammenfassende Darstellung der Geschichte der musikalischen Interpretation in den letzten beiden Jahrhunderten.

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.

In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella A,sha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences.

What does it mean to be visually literate?

Does art connect the individual psyche to history and culture?

Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902–1968) war einer der renommiertesten Maler der deutschen Nachkriegszeit.

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

The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art.

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics.

A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings of art history, The Brain-Eye presents a series of interlinked 'case studies' in which philosophical thought encounters the hallucinatory sensations unleashed by 'painter-researchers.

Combining postcolonial studies, curating and contemporary art, this book surveys the role played by artistic curatorship and contemporary art museums in the shaping of identities and cultural planning in contemporary Iberia.

This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relationship on nineteenth and twentieth century artists and art theorists.

Ruskin, the great Victorian critics of art and society, had an enormous influence on his age and our own.

In this study, Alan Paskow situates the phenomenological approach to the experience of painting.

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b.

The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology.

Art/Commons is the first book to theorise the commons from the perspectives of contemporary art history and anthropology, focusing on the ongoing tensions between art and capitalism.