Theory of art

This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Historically, an important role of museums has been to contribute to national homogenization.

Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades.

A theoretically informed investigation that relates the philosophies of aesthetics and imagination to understanding design practice.

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art.

This book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and international relations: migration as a profoundly transforming force that has remodelled artistic and art institutional practices across the world.

A broad account of the complex phenomenon of colour and colour vision.

If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human.

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.

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'.

Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challenge the prevailing view of childhood as a state of innocence.

Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding light on the political implications of aesthetic representation.

The abundance of images in our everyday lives-and the speed at which they are consumed-seems to have left us unable to critique them.

Immersion is the new orthodoxy.

New York is a centre of creative production for an exciting, emerging generation of women artists.

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "e;critical practice.

There is an increasing trend within both the study of visual culture and fashion itself to restore fashion to an aesthetic role - one that moves beyond its commercial success as a global industry and places fashion within a nexus of art, the body, and femininity.

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us.

In her provocative study of Gertrude Stein, G.

Thinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history.

Library facilitators of art-based creativity sessions will learn how to choose materials and art experiences appropriate for young people from toddlers to teens and for intergenerational groups.

Western civilization is grappling with a profound crisis of unity and meaning, as analytical methods and intense specialization have fragmented knowledge and severed its connection to the holistic purpose of life: enabling humanity to embrace existence more fully.

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship.

Spricht man heute von Pathos, dann meint man meist peinlichen Gefühlskitsch.

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.

How does the avant-garde create spaces in everyday life that subvert regimes of economic and political control?

En este estudio, Mikel Dufrenne desarrolla una crítica de la experiencia estética.

Dada magazines made Dada what it was: diverse, non-hierarchical, transnational, and defiant of the most fundamental artistic conventions.

From the Roaring Twenties and the Group of Seven to the Automatistes and the early Cold War, Canadian artists lived through and embodied an era of global tumult and change.

Art Nouveau was a style for a new age, but it was also one that continued to look back to the past.

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "e;critical practice.

Accused by the tabloid press of setting out to 'shock', controversial artworks are vigorously defended by art critics, who frequently downplay their disturbing emotional impact.

Von der reformatorischen Bildpolitik über Goyas Gesten und die Masken der Kunst, die Jacob Burckhardt beschrieb, spannen Warnkes kulturwissenschaftliche Essays den Bogen bis zur passionierten Erinnerungsarbeit Aby Warburgs.

The Social Value of Art (1939) is a thorough examination of art activity, using the knowledge of the workings of the mind and of the attractions of pleasure.

Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings.

Portraits have for centuries been one of the most important art forms.

Seit Mozart hat kein Österreicher so viel Aufmerksamkeit im Gebäude der Weltkultur erregt wie Hermann Nitsch.

This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "e;queer"e; and "e;gender performance"e; or "e;performativity"e; over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.

This title was first published in 2002.

In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is.

Aesthetics and the philosophy of art are about things in the world things like the Mona Lisa, but also things like horror movies, things like the ugliest dog in the world, and things like wallpaper.

'Insights from the zeitgeist are preserved with conviction and clarity, offering an inclusive way to access contemporary art in all its forms.

This book explores the collaborations, during the mid-20th century, between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Book-of-the-Month Club.