Theory of art

This title was first published in 2000: John Petts (1914-1991) is one of the outstanding wood-engravers of the twentieth century.

Der Titel BILD/GESCHICHTE lässt eine Vielzahl von Verbindungen assoziieren – von der Geschichtlichkeit der Bilder bis zur Rolle der Bilder als ‚Akteure’ in der Geschichte.

Violence at an aesthetic remove from the spectator or reader has been a key element of narrative and visual arts since Greek antiquity.

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

Throughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors.

This book bridges the gap between the many insights into art provided by research in evolutionary theory, psychology and neuroscience and those enduring normative issues best addressed by philosophy.

In this sparkling, innovative, fully-illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance-time, proximity, space, motion and tone- into text.

This book explores the contemporary legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki following the passage of three quarters of a century, and the role of art and activism in maintaining a critical perspective on the dangers of the nuclear age.

Diotima's Children is a re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics which prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century.

This title was first published in 2003.

How to Make the Body: Difference, Identity, and Embodiment brings together contemporary and historical readings of the body, exploring the insights and limits of established and emerging theories of difference, identity, and embodiment in a variety of German contexts.

Space is a formative factor in the production of sculpture.

'John Berger has made the world a better place to live in.

Das Thema Grenzbilder führt direkt zu den politischen Aspekten visueller Darstellungen und ihrem impliziten wie expliziten Grenzregime.

Over the last two decades, multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, and technology have seen the light of day.

For Rene Magritte, painting was a form of thinking.

This edited collection explores a subject of great potential for both art historians and museologists - that of the nature of the specimen and how it might be reinterpreted.

Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon of mid-fifth century Athens, which was constructed of pentelic marble, to Justinian's Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Renaissance and Baroque basilica of St.

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

The ultimate reference on the global art market - now available as a newly revised six-volume box set.

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time.

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history.

Interpreting Visual Art explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie one's interpretation of art.

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal episteme of selfie practice.

This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective.

Digital creativity is boundless.

Since the decidedly bleak beginning of the twenty-first century, art practice has become increasingly politicized.

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.

In a unique cooperation between philosophy, linguistics, art history, and ancient studies, this volume focuses on ways in which the entangled and embodied nature of image and language enables us to symbolically articulate the world and our experience in a great variety of forms.

Die Wiener Moderne um 1900 war von einer künstlerischen Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Architekten, den Herstellern und ihren Auftraggeber_innen geprägt.

The Philosophy of Art is a highly accessible introduction to current key issues and debates in aesthetics and philosophy of art.

This book provides a Renaissance art historian's view of how the picturesque aesthetic developed from roots in the sixteenth century (mostly in painting, but with ramifications for printmaking, landscape design, and architecture), and further, how the picturesque aesthetic fundamentally changed the relationship between art and nature, between viewer and image.

Demonstrates the central significance of rhetoric in ancient responses to and receptions of Roman art.

Art and politics are related through repetition.

Der Band untersucht und beschreibt die Bedeutung der Steinstrukturen im Park des Buddhistischen Hauses in Berlin-Frohnau.

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chains-art included.

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

Outlining the physical and psychological aspects of colour, this classic text explains the principles of colour perception and light and their application in the arts and sciences.

This edited volume considers the ways in which multiple stages, phases, or periods in an artistic or design process have served to arrive at the final artifact, with a focus on the meaning and use of the iteration.

There exists a series of contemporary artists who continually defy the traditional role of the artist/author, including Art & Language, Guerrilla Girls, Bob and Roberta Smith, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Lucky PDF.

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This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948-1951).

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history.

This book describes the international effort to give order to colours and thus facilitate communication about it, two topics deemed essential to a modernising world that were also recognizably complex.