Theory of art

This book represents an applied, up-to-date work on RRI developments and their potential positive impact on societies.

There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in.

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 book explores the critical significance of the visual arts to transnational feminist thought and activism.

This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists' collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and one of the few tangible connections between radical European art groups from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Insbesondere seit Aufkommen der digitalen Fotografie scheint die Menge der Bilder auch im künstlerischen Bereich stetig anzuwachsen.

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.

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

How might performance serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain, in humans and ecologies?

Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print.

This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that are attached to them and the implications they have for notions of identity, memory, gender, cultural belonging and political action.

This title was first published in 2002.

In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the term post-medium in her work.

This title was first published in 2002.

The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song dance, and fiction.

First published in 1977.

This book explores the relationship between ekphrasis and memory in the novel.

This book delves into the long-standing human aspiration to combine art and science.

This title was first published in 2003.

The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject.

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

Major changes are affecting the cultural sector around the world, and there is a need for new skills and knowledge in arts and cultural administration.

The end of the Soviet period, the vast expansion in the power and influence of capital, and recent developments in social and aesthetic theory, have made the work of Hungarian Marxist philosopher and social critic Georg Lukács more vital than ever.

The Image of Christ in Modern Art explores the challenges presented by the radical and rapid changes of artistic style in the 20th century to artists who wished to relate to traditional Christian imagery.

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America.

This book examines the legacy of international interwar modernism as a case of cultural transfer through the travels of a central motif: the square.

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

Art and science work is experiencing a dramatic rise coincident with burgeoning Science and Technology Studies (STS) interest in this area.

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.

Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with international case studies to investigate the display of death in various types of museums-history, anthropology, art, ethnographic, and science museums - and to understand the changing role of photography in museums.

Today, artists are engaged in investigation.

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

Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization whose mission is to preserve, document and present works of avant-garde art by emerging artists - particularly those whose works may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politically unpopular content.

Culture and Consensus, first published in 1995 and a revised edition in 1997, explores the history of the relationship between politics and the arts in Britain since 1940, and shows how the search for a secure sense of English identity has been reflected in official and unofficial attitudes to the arts, architecture, landscape and other emblems of national significance.

First published in 1962, Hogarth and his Place in European Art attempts to convey the historical relevance, both in its native and European context, of perhaps the most outstanding English painter of the eighteenth century.

In the popular imagination, Homer as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, epitomises poetic genius.

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

This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre in a range of global contexts.

Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture's entanglement with contemporary image culture.

In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources.

Both an exploration of the ways in which we fashion our public identity and a manual of modern sociability, this lively and readable book explores the techniques we use to present ourselves to the world: body language, tone of voice, manners, demeanour, 'personality' and personal style.

Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews.

When thinking about the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel's haunting words resound like an echo of the sea and its millenary history.

Wie kann Malerei Wissen vermitteln oder gar generieren?

Digital creativity is boundless.

Beginning with the first comprehensive account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, Art After Appropriation suggests a matrix of inflections and refusals around the culture of taking or citation, each chapter loosely correlated with one year of the decade between 1989 and 1999.