Theory of art

A provocative account of the philosophical problem of 'difference' in art history, Tintoretto's Difference offers a new reading of this pioneering 16th century painter, drawing upon the work of the 20th century philosopher Gilles Deleuze.

A provocative account of the philosophical problem of 'difference' in art history, Tintoretto's Difference offers a new reading of this pioneering 16th century painter, drawing upon the work of the 20th century philosopher Gilles Deleuze.

Jean-Fran ois Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century.

Jean-Fran ois Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century.

Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of language and thought.

Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of language and thought.

Digital technology has transformed the way that we visualise the natural world, the art we create and the stories we tell about our environments.

How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it?

How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it?

Digital technology has transformed the way that we visualise the natural world, the art we create and the stories we tell about our environments.

This book explores Symbolist artists' fascination with ancient Greek art and myth, and how the erotic played a major role in this.

This book explores Symbolist artists' fascination with ancient Greek art and myth, and how the erotic played a major role in this.

In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the paintings of Francis Bacon as his object of his study.

In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the paintings of Francis Bacon as his object of his study.

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

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

The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media.

The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media.

Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion explores how emotion is communicated in drama, theatre, and contemporary performance and therefore in society.

Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion explores how emotion is communicated in drama, theatre, and contemporary performance and therefore in society.

If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human.

If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human.

Giving an overview of the history of color theory from ancient and classical cultures to contemporary contexts, this book explores important critical principles and provides practical guidance on the use of color in art and design.

Giving an overview of the history of color theory from ancient and classical cultures to contemporary contexts, this book explores important critical principles and provides practical guidance on the use of color in art and design.

Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of analysis.

Gendering Modernism offers a critical reappraisal of the modernist movement, asking how gender norms of the time shaped the rebellion of the self-avowed modernists and examining the impact of radical gender reformers on modernism.

Gendering Modernism offers a critical reappraisal of the modernist movement, asking how gender norms of the time shaped the rebellion of the self-avowed modernists and examining the impact of radical gender reformers on modernism.

The relevance of painting has been questioned many times over the last century, by the arrival of photography, installation art and digital technologies.

The relevance of painting has been questioned many times over the last century, by the arrival of photography, installation art and digital technologies.

Contemporary art is often preoccupied with time, or acts in which the past is recovered.

Contemporary art is often preoccupied with time, or acts in which the past is recovered.

What is the future of conceptualism?

What is the future of conceptualism?

Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics.

Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics.

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.

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.

For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity.

For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity.

This book has been a standard text for cultural studies and the sociology of art since its first appearance in 1981.

This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their use of pictorial narrative.

This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their use of pictorial narrative.

The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology.

The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology.

In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when many anticipated its dissolution into a generalised system of audio-visual representations or its collapse under the relentless overload of digital imagery.

In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when many anticipated its dissolution into a generalised system of audio-visual representations or its collapse under the relentless overload of digital imagery.

This collection of brief but insightful essays, though always returning to the author's central conviction that the quality of artistic endeavour depends not on individuals of genius but on the attitude of the public towards art itself, examines a wide variety of unique but related issues: the relationship between natural and artistic beauty; the genius of Da Vinci and Nicholas Poussin; the influence of femininity on European art; the importance of good criticism; art as a social phenomenon; the role of the passions; and a range of associated topics.

This collection of brief but insightful essays, though always returning to the author's central conviction that the quality of artistic endeavour depends not on individuals of genius but on the attitude of the public towards art itself, examines a wide variety of unique but related issues: the relationship between natural and artistic beauty; the genius of Da Vinci and Nicholas Poussin; the influence of femininity on European art; the importance of good criticism; art as a social phenomenon; the role of the passions; and a range of associated topics.