Theory of art

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.

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.

The Science and Art of Dreaming is an innovative text that reviews the neuroscience and psychology of how dreams are produced, how they are recalled and their relationship to waking life events and concerns of the dreamer.

Intersections of Value investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience.

What role do the visual arts play in the emerging commercial spaceflight industry, and vice versa?

Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous Interiors addresses the broad cultural, historical, and theoretical implications of interiors beyond their conventionally defined architectural boundaries.

Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "e;of"e;.

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

This book is the first overall study of research-based art practices in Southeast Asia.

Pearson brings a cogent, well-argued case for the understanding of much prehistoric art as shamanistic practice.

This second volume of the series 'Advances in Art & Urban Futures' brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultural theorists in addressing the recoveries and reclamations being made within urban and rural landscapes as a result of the fallout of redevelopment in the twentyfirst century.

Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility attendant in Franz Boas's anthropology.

Mit Hothos Vorlesungsnachschrift aus dem Sommersemester 1823 liegt ein Zeugnis zu Hegels Konzeption der Philosophie der Kunst vor, das für die philosophische Auseinandersetzung um die Bedeutung der Hegelschen Ästhetik noch heute interessant ist.

This fourth edition of the bestselling textbook, now available in print, eBook, and audiobook, has been fully updated, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language.

The Art of Darkness is a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks thathave been inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic and macabre.

This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de siecle until the Second World War for such Modernists as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hugo Ball, Juliette Bisson, Eva Carriere, Salvador Dali, Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Edvard Munch, Picasso, Yves Tanguy, Gino Severini and John Cage.

Stilbewusst und (selbst-) kritisch kommentiert Zimmer in seinem Tagebuch das gesellschaftliche Klima im Nachkriegsdeutschland.

 This book focuses on cartographies as epistemology and visual strategy, highlighting three major axes: corporeal, affective, and nomadic learning.

During the last 30 years, technological, social, economic and environmental changes have brought about the most dramatic evolution to architectural practice that has taken place since the profession emerged during the Italian Renaissance.

This study compares text/image interaction as manifested in emblem books (and related forms) and the modern bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip.

Homosexuelle Kunstproduktion war und ist ein vielstimmiger Kanon: Dazu gehören Camouflage und Camp, gegenkulturelle und mainstream-kompatible Entwürfe ebenso wie Strategien befreienden Lachens und behaglichen Amüsements.

This book presents innovative analysis of emergent visual trends in Japan from the late 1960s to the present day.

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

What is art?

Challenges traditional evolutionary, psychological and neurobiological theories by using the ecology of art to explore art behaviors.

In Still Looking, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art to produce an eye-opening follow-up to his 1989 art criticism classic Just Looking.

Jeanne Mammen's watercolour images of the gender-bending 'new woman' and her candid portrayals of Berlin's thriving nightlife appeared in some of the most influential magazines of the Weimar Republic and are still considered characteristic of much of the 'glitter' of that era.

Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, the study of creativity and fine art has been a special concern.

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Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even nausea.

Through a series of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary interventions, leading international scholars of history and art history explore ways in which the study of images enhances knowledge of the past and informs our understanding of the present.

I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here features essays by more than fifty renowned international writers who consider thirteen monumental works of art created for The New School between 1930 and the present.

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.

The book Theory and Practice of Contrast completes, corrects and integrates the foundations of science and humanities, which include: theory of art, philosophy (aesthetics, epistemology, ontology, axiology), cognitive science, theory of information, theory of complexity and physics.

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.

August Strindberg and Visual Culture addresses the multiplicity of Strindberg's artistic and literary output.

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.

We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean.

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.

We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed.

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art?

Sjoerd van Tuinen argues for the inseparability of matter and manner in the form of a group portrait of Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, Souriau, Simondon, Deleuze, Stengers, and Agamben.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.