Theory of art

Tras una introducción en la que la autora realiza un repaso a su trayectoria intelectual y a los temas esenciales del análisis visual, el libro ofrece por primera vez en lengua castellana algunas de las intervenciones más relevantes de la producción de Mieke Bal, llegando hasta los textos más recientes sobre los ensayos visuales, el análisis fílmico y el trabajo de comisariado.

Violet Paget (1856-1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics.

First published in 1952, John Constable and the Fishers is based on original letters which have never been published in full before.

An illustrated exploration of fandom that combines academic essays with artist pages and experimental texts.

Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print.

This book is an ethnographic study of the travelling art exhibition Indian Highway that presented Indian contemporary art in Europe and China between 2008 and 2012, a significant period for the art world that saw the rise and fall of the national exhibition format.

In the past twenty years digital technology has had a radical impact on all the disciplines associated with the visual arts - this book provides expert views of that impact.

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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.

Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices.

In De Gustibus Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art?

This illustrated ebook, in the Collins Artist's Studio series, is aimed at the intermediate painter and explains how to loosen up your watercolours and develop a more spontaneous style of painting.

Critique has long been a central concept within art practice and theory.

The art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is usually viewed as quite distinct from Surrealism, a movement which the artist himself displayed some hostility towards.

Doing Research in Design presents new ways of thinking about the relationship between design and research by positioning design as a social as well as a material practice.

Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe investigates the visual imagery of race construction in Scandinavia, Austro Hungary, Germany, and Russia.

When photographing people, you can have a great composition, perfect light, and the right camera settings, but if your subject doesn't look rightif the pose is offthe shot will not be a keeper.

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

People often overlook the uncanny nature of homecomings, writing off the experience of finding oneself at home in a strange place or realizing that places from our past have grown strange.

Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious design ability.

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A Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture.

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

Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century.

Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception undertakes a unique critical survey and analysis of prevailing group exhibition-making practices in Europe, the UK and North America.

A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their usesArt history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft.

Wenn sich Kalküle entwickeln, Grenzwerte errechnet werden, ein Koordinatenkreuz gezeichnet wird, in dem die Stetigkeit, Differenzierbarkeit und die Integration von Funktionen in Erscheinung treten, so werden Vorstellungen abstrahiert – es wird Mathematik betrieben.

Kunstwerke, die verschwinden, erzählen die dramatischsten Geschichten – von den Wirren der Kriege, den Schrecken von Naturkatastrophen bis hin zu spektakulären Raubzügen und stillen Verlusten.

Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design challenges the received narrative on the artists, exhibitions, and interpretations of Viennese Modernism.

What happens when the shock of artistic transgression wears off, when scandal dissipates, when outrage becomes a tired routine?

Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "e;stands for"e; something absent?

This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies.

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting.

Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews.

This is the first major collection to reimagine and analyse the role of the creative arts in building resilient and inclusive regional communities.

A critic takes issue with the art world''s romanticizing of networks and participatory projects, linking them to the values of a globalized, neoliberal economy.

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature.

The artwork of Maria Bussmann, a trained academic German philosopher and a significant visual artist, provides an ideal test case for a philosophical study of visual art.

Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism-of Pollock, Miro, and Matisse-has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time.

Plutarchs Lives Plutarch - Lives is a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans by the ancient Greek historian Plutarch who lived during the first and second century AD.

Towards Tate Modern provides a new interdisciplinary account of Tate's shifting position as a national arts institution.