Theory of art

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.

This book makes a case for cultural naturalism as a basis for a philosophy of art education.

The book aims to provide a contemporary individual with an extensive but focused set of examples of kitsch in non-artistic spheres to create theoretical and practical backgrounds for conscious recognition of kitsch in fields like psychology, education, politics, law, religion, terrorism, television, or journalism.

In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published.

Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquin Torres-Garcia.

Throughout history, and all over the world, viewers have treated works of art as if they are living beings: speaking to them, falling in love with them, kissing or beating them.

In this book, Solveig Gu mundsdottir uncovers the crucial role of esotericism in the art of the Vienna Actionists-a group of Austrian neo-avant-garde artists, infamous for their transgressive performance art.

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.

A Companion to Public Art is the only scholarly volume to examine the main issues, theories, and practices of public art on a comprehensive scale.

What is the future of conceptualism?

Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century.

There Are No Such Things as Theories considers the fundamental question: what is a scientific theory?

Pamela M.

Der Band widmet sich einem Thema, dessen Aktualität sich nicht nur aus den psychologischen und neurologischen Erkenntnissen der Gegenwart begründet, sondern auch durch eine Vielzahl neuer Deutungen in den Kultur- und Geisteswissenschaften.

Why does the artworld often privilege one cultural form over another?

Rubbish is something we ignore.

The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture.

Glauben, Wissen und ästhetische Erfahrung stehen in der abendländischen Tradition seit jeher in einem triangulären Verhältnis.

Reflecting the increasing recognition of the importance of the spiritual in healing, Spirituality and Art Therapy is an exciting exploration of the different ways in which the spiritual forms an essential, life-enhancing component of a well-rounded therapeutic approach.

This innovative book takes the concept of translation beyond its traditional boundaries, adding to the growing body of literature which challenges the idea of translation as a primarily linguistic transfer.

This volume is the first critical anthology of contemporary writings and illustrations about memory in Renaissance England.

From Francis Alys and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and the privatization of public space.

León und Alberti waren aktive Gegner der von Franco errichteten Diktatur.

Latin American History through its Art and Literature uses 2,000 years of Latin American history as the organizing theme, and then explores that history through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer.

Collecting has a long tradition in the Middle East but the museum as a public institution is relatively new.

A stunning art gallery in a book, art, annotated spans more than 3,000 years of paintings, sculptures, and prints.

Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age challenges orthodoxies of photographic theory and practice.

Projections of Memory is an exploration of a body of innovative cinematic works that utilize their extraordinary scope to construct monuments to the imagination that promise profound transformations of vision, selfhood, and experience.

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

In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture, transnationalism and globalization, and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry.

Artworld Metaphysics turns a critical eye upon aspects of the artworld, and articulates some of the problems, principles, and norms implicit in the actual practices of artistic creation, interpretation, evaluation, and commodification.

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.

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of taste.

The essential guide to colour theory and mixing for artists.

The Design Dialogue anthology is a remarkable exploration of the decisive role of Jewish patrons, professionals, architects, designers and authors in shaping modern Viennese architecture, design, and material culture.

This book sheds new light on those who inherit Spinoza''s thought and its consequences materially rather than metaphysically.

The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take.

Contemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with history.

Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze's thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes and, as a result, proposes a new definition of art.

What is the future of conceptualism?

As the last generation of underground artists in the Soviet Union and the first on the post-Soviet scene, Moscow conceptualists provide a unique point of view on the breakup of the USSR, the changing role of unofficial art in a repressive state, and the beginning of a new world order in both art and politics.

If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well?

Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science.

The first university-level textbook on the power, condition, and expanse of contemporary fine art drawing A Companion to Contemporary Drawing explores how 20th and 21st century artists have used drawing to understand and comment on the world.

Die Gestaltung des Sozialen kann als künstlerisches Vorhaben gedacht werden.

With newly commissioned essays by some of the leading writers on photography today, this companion tackles some of the most pressing questions about photography theory's direction, relevance, and purpose.

The Present Prospects of Social Art History represents a major reconsideration of how art historians analyze works of art and the role that historical factors, both those at the moment when the work was created and when the historian addresses the objects at hand, play in informing their interpretations.

A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work-the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our souls and societies-from an award-winning essayist and criticThere are two stories you hear about earning a living as an artist in the digital age.