Theory of art

Step into your inner world and connect with your essence as you create unique mandalas with various mediums and techniques.

As a young art instructor, new on the block, Marlene Nall Johnt went looking for an instructive manual about successful art education techniques.

This study provides a new interpretation of art after modernism by foregrounding the importance of conceptual thinking as a pervasive force for change in art and art history since 1950.

Virginia Woolf was a close friend of Roger Fry for many years - after his death she wrote this loving account of his passion for art, his own painting, and his challenging critical theories.

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't.

This book reframes the Lacanian object a voice as a horrific register of alterity.

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Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics.

Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics.

THE ART OF COMICS The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Introduction is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical questions raised by the art of comics.

THE ART OF COMICS The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Introduction is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical questions raised by the art of comics.

Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions.

Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions.

Evil isn't simply an abstract theological or philosophical talking point.

Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings.

Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including print, painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography.

Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including print, painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography.

Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey.

Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey.

In the face of unparalleled growth and a truly global audience, the popularity of contemporary art has clearly become a double-edged affair.

An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present Marcel Duchamp famously championed a "e;non-retinal"e; visual art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty.

In the face of unparalleled growth and a truly global audience, the popularity of contemporary art has clearly become a double-edged affair.

There is a blind spot in recent accounts of the history, theory and aesthetics of optical media: namely, the field of the three-dimensional, or trans-plane, image.

There is a blind spot in recent accounts of the history, theory and aesthetics of optical media: namely, the field of the three-dimensional, or trans-plane, image.

Guiding readers through major problems, issues and debates in aesthetics, this is a bias-free introduction for students studying the philosophy of art for the first time.

Literary Art in Digital Performance examines electronic works of literary art, a category integrating the visual+textual including interactive poetry, narrative computer games, filmic sculpture and projective art.

Michel Henry was one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century.

The term 'temporality' often refers to the traditional mode of the way time is: a linear procession of past, present and future.

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.