Theory of art

In hyperdrawing: beyond the lines of contemporary art, authors and artists come together to explore the potential of what drawing in contemporary art theory and practice might become.

This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship.

A different set of purposes define culture today than those that preoccupied the world in the immediate decades of decolonization.

What is the relevance of Dada and its artistic strategies in our current moment, one marked by post-truth politics, information floods and big data?

With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image.

In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the world.

Shortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year Award 2025Is architecture an art, like literature or music?

In this study, Alan Paskow situates the phenomenological approach to the experience of painting.

To what extent does locality influence contemporary art?

This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes.

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us.

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.

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art.

Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis considers the phenomenon of the continued relevance of collage, a form established over a hundred years ago, to contemporary literature.

This volume analyzes representations of disability in art from antiquity to the twenty-first century, incorporating disability studies scholarship and art historical research and methodology.

Problematic assumptions which see humans as special and easily defined as standing apart from animals, plants, and microbiota, both consciously and unconsciously underpin scientific investigation, arts practice, curation, education, and research across the social sciences and humanities.

What can Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) learn from art?

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art.

The book is a study of Adorno''s aesthetics, its philosophical background, and its account of aesthetic modernism.

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists.

This book reframes the Lacanian object a voice as a horrific register of alterity.

Drawing on an interdisciplinary panel of contributors, this book presents a stimulating dialogue between economics and art theory and considers how this might aid our understanding of both areas of research.

This title was first published in 2003.

This volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity for Italy by exporting - literally and figuratively - contemporary art to the United States in key moments between 1929 and 1969.

A new approach to Plato''s characterization of Socrates, through analysis of erôs and philosophy in four dialogues on love and friendship.

The violent operations performed in the 1970s by West German urban guerrillas - such as the Red Army Faction (RAF) - were so vivid and incomprehensible that it seemed to be more urgent to produce spectacle than to be politically successful.

New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics.

Performance art in Western Europe and North America developed in part as a response to the commercialisation of the art object, as artists endeavoured to create works of art that could not be bought or sold.

Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts.

Precarious objects explores the traffic between design and activism by telling stories drawn from contemporary counter-precarity cases in Italy.

This book argues that a special value of art is the way in which it uses conscious experience -- the exemplars of aesthetic experience -- to autonomously reconfigure how we conceive of our world and ourselves, ourselves in our world and our world in ourselves.

In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human.

In The Science of Culture and the Phenomenology of Styles, Renato Barilli examines the history of artistic style in relation to scientific discovery.

As the second volume of a two-volume set on Chinese art theory, this book introduces the typology of Chinese art and expands on the aesthetic and artistic theories of Chinese traditional art.

How might we see ourselves more clearly?

This fascinating book will interest anyone wanting to learn more about the relationship between mathematics and the arts.

By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics.

Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples.

The nature of representation is a central topic in philosophy.

In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it's conventional condemnation.

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.

A Companion to Roman Art encompasses various artistic genres, ancient contexts, and modern approaches for a comprehensive guide to Roman art.

Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor offers an intriguing window onto the creative thinking of several well-known and highly creative individuals.

This book argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together an important range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary arts and anthropology.

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.

Michel Henry was one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century.