Theory of art

A key publication on colour theory from a pioneering female scientist, this unique work explores the world of colour, reimagining foundational theories for practical use in the fields of art, science, and design.

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What do Persian robes of honour, 20th-century still-life painting, fur garments, and 18th-century porcelain all have in common?

Applied Depth of Field (1985) is a complete and convenient guide for all kinds of photographers who need to exercise control over depth of field.

Johann Georg Sulzers Werk umfasst eine erstaunliche thematische Bandbreite.

Look At This If You Love Great Art is a must read for anyone with a passion for exceptional art.

The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art.

In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities, Hal Foster surveys our new political economy of design.

Wer über das Gesicht nachdenkt, befasst sich in der Regel mit seiner Ansicht, Präsenz und Zugewandtheit.

Popkultur ist allgegenwärtig – sie prägt unser Denken, Fühlen und Handeln, beeinflusst Mode, Musik, Kunst und selbst unsere Sprache.

Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their ideas.

Using a simple four-stage process, the world-renowned artist shows how to build a portrait, from the basic shape right to finished faces.

Essays on the nature, production, and presentation of art, craft, and architecture in Japan, inspired by the authors experiences in Kyoto.

Applied Depth of Field (1985) is a complete and convenient guide for all kinds of photographers who need to exercise control over depth of field.

By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a regular feature in many conceptual artworks.

A classic collection of writing from a great American painter and teacher on modern art theory, technique, and appreciation.

Entdecken Sie die verborgene Welt des Widerstands: "Kunst & Literatur in der DDR – Widerstand zwischen den Zeilen"Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende und bewegende Geschichte der DDR, wie sie Ihnen noch nie erzählt wurde.

"Handbook and guide" …for Cellists and all other String PlayersBrilliant technical and musical concepts and methods by Janos Starker, the world-famous cellist and teacherSuitable for all levels: Students, Chamber Musicians, Orchestral Musicians as well as SoloistsA true inspiration!

This collection offers a response to the view that migration disrupts national heritage.

Die Mona Lisa – ein Meisterwerk, das seit Jahrhunderten fasziniert, inspiriert und Rätsel aufgibt.

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen observer of postmodern art and lesbian feminist life who challenged how dance, art, and women can and should be seen.

This book presents both a historical survey and a critical re-evaluation of the contested and contingent nature of the medium of painting over the last 60 years.

How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war?

"La crítica del arte parece inseparable de los dictados del capitalismo y de la industria cultural.

Cine Craft (1974) is an ideal guide to the world of amateur film making, a treasure-house of authoritative information.

Exhibition spaces are physical places of knowledge production and exchange.

Cine Craft (1974) is an ideal guide to the world of amateur film making, a treasure-house of authoritative information.

Art troubles anthropology.

Post-digital art suggests a form of embodiment of digital technologies that unfolds in physical space through hands-on material approaches, and even the repurposing of older analogue media.

This ground-breaking book presents a critical study of pictorial narrative in nineteenth-century European painting.

Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Discover Michel Eugene Chevreul's groundbreaking theories on colour as he explores the principles of contrasting and harmonising colours in this classic text on colour theory.