Theory of art

Landschaftsmalerei zeigt oft mehr, als auf den ersten Blick erkennbar ist.

Jesus Christus - die Darstellung des christlichen Heilands in der Kunst ist seit jeher auch die Darstellung von Konflikten: Einerseits soll seine ideale Herrlichkeit gezeigt werden, andererseits auch sein menschliches Leiden.

How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age?

Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time.

Although art is taught around the world, art education policies and practices vary widely-and the opportunities for teachers to exchange information are few.

Der amerikanische Kunsthistoriker George Kubler (1912-1996) publizierte im Jahr 1962 den theoretischen Essay "The Shape of Time.

The main themes and aims of this book are understanding aesthetics, contemporary art and the end of the avant-garde not from the traditional viewpoint of the metaphysics of the beautiful and the sublime but rather thru close connection to the techno-genesis of virtual worlds.

Das neue Überblickswerk zum motivgeschichtlichen Komplex Engel vertieft die Sakralbedeutung mit den Highlights der Systematisierung von Engelikonen in der Motivanalyse nach Bildtypologien und der Untersuchung der Funktionen von Engeldarstellungen in epochalen Transformationen im Wirkungsgefüge Sakralarchitektur anhand des Paderborner Doms.

Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day.

This title was first published in 2002.

In this book, Hertha D.

This book represents an applied, up-to-date work on RRI developments and their potential positive impact on societies.

The avant garde is dead, or so the story goes for many leftists and capitalists alike.

Illustrated by critical analyses of significant buildings, including examples by such eminent architects as Adler and Sullivan, Erich Mendelsohn, and Louis Kahn, this book examines collaboration in the architectural design process over a period ranging from the mid-19th century to the late 1960s.

This title was first published in 2002.

One of the twentieth century's most influential texts on philosophical aestheticsPainting as an Art is acclaimed philosopher Richard Wollheim's encompassing vision of how to view art.

This book explores the nature of Jung's understanding of modern art, in particular his reception to the work of Picasso and his striking prejudice shown in his controversial essay of 1932.

In The Fold, Laura U.

This book takes a creative approach in examining one of the biggest crises of our time: that of mental suffering, distress and anxiety.

Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists collects personal reflections by therapists who are also professional artists.

The abundance of images in our everyday lives-and the speed at which they are consumed-seems to have left us unable to critique them.

The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject.

There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in.

An Invitation to Biblical Poetry is an accessibly written introduction to biblical poetry that emphasizes the aesthetic dimensions of poems and their openness to varieties of context.

Die Kasseler persönlichen Exemplare der "Kinder- und Hausmärchen" der Brüder Grimm gehören zum UNESCO-Weltdokumentenerbe und damit zum weltweit anerkannten kulturellen Gedächtnis.

These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany.

A landmark anthology on British art history, bringing together overlooked and marginalized perspectives from 'the critical decade'What is Black art?

In an era when ease of travel is greater than ever, it is also easy to overlook the degree to which voyages of the body - and mind - have generated an outpouring of artistry and creativity throughout the ages.

This edited volume explores the historical, practical and pedagogical possibilities for expressing and cultivating empathy through works of art.

Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth.

Work and Object is a study of fundamental questions in the metaphysics of art, notably how works relate to the materials that constitute them.

This edited volume explores the historical, practical and pedagogical possibilities for expressing and cultivating empathy through works of art.

People engage with authored works all the time.

Thinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history.

This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective.

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known.

"e;a book full of love that makes you see what really matters, both in art and life.

Erwin Rosenthals Contemporary Art in the Light of History, originally published in 1971, is a small masterpiece of writing on the art of the twentieth century.

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of Modern buildings.

Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship.