Theory of art

Shows how Joyce''s narrative styles and his protagonists'' perceptions are shaped by visual technologies, including dioramas, stereoscopes, mutoscopes and film.

Visual Cultures is the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, and includes authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland and Slovenia.

A Companion to Modern Art presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of artistic works, movements, approaches, influences, and legacies of Modern Art.

Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today, presents a new collection of essays, following on from his four previous collections, Music, Art and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), Contemplating Art (2006), and Musical Concerns (2015).

Colour makes our lives more interesting - how dull it would be in a black-and-white world!

This book offers intriguing philosophical inquiries into biotechnological art and the life sciences, addressing their convergences as well as their epistemic and functional divergences.

The explosion of minimalism into the worlds of visual arts, music and literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century presents one of the most radical and decisive revolutions in aesthetic history.

In The Natural Order and Other Texts, Peter Shield presents the first English translations of the artist Asger Jorn's three philosophical texts - The Natural Order, Value and Economy and Luck and Chance.

This book focuses on avant-garde literature and art in Europe and America during the first quarter of the twentieth century.

All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "e;irrepressibly artful minds.

The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the Greeks.

A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist Jose Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, "e;The Dehumanization of Art.

The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye.

Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork, Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass.

Color is one of cinema's most alluring formal systems, building on a range of artistic traditions that orchestrate visual cues to tell stories, stage ideas, and elicit feelings.

First published in 1977.

Although there are a number of anthologies dealing with various topics related to the emotions, this is the first to focus on the arts.

Selected and introduced by Juli Carson, this book presents a collection of essential essays, interviews, and never-before published archival materials that trace the development of the teaching of major artist and thinker Mary Kelly, from 1980-2017.

How is art criticism to be understood within an expanding artistic field?

This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945.

Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research is part history, introduction and discussion for artists and designers entering, graduating and employed by the contemporary art academy in the United States.

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**WINNER OF THE SALTIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024****WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.

Deftly deploying Derrida's notion of the 'unexperienced experience' and building on Paul Virilio's ideas about the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishing Points explores the aesthetic character of presence and absence as articulated in contemporary art, photography, film and emerging media.

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Using a simple four-stage process, the world-renowned artist shows how to build a portrait, from the basic shape right to finished faces.

Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day.

Skin in the Game follows on from the acclaimed fieldwork diary, The Metabolic Museum.

Electronic art offers endless opportunities for reflection and interpretation.

No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values.

This book is an influential study of the central questions and philosophical issues raised by art.

Our world is saturated with images.

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

Why do people go to the movies?

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek.

The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-first Century is a highly visual collection of essays about the future of art and the art of the future.

This book uses intermedial theories to study collage and montage, tracing the transformation of visual collage into photomontage in the early avant-garde period.

Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor offers an intriguing window onto the creative thinking of several well-known and highly creative individuals.

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.

Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth.

This book explores the ways Robert Smithson's art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge.