Theory of art books

Those Passions is the careful distillation of a lifetime of writing about art's relationship to politics, by the...  Read More >>

The book features a group of 32 works by Georges Braque made after his cubist period. They are accompanied by new...  Read More >>

Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve...  Read More >>

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

The Social Value of Art (1939) is a thorough examination of art activity, using the knowledge of the workings of...  Read More >>

Applied Depth of Field (1985) is a complete and convenient guide for all kinds of photographers who need to exercise...  Read More >>

Essays on the evolving aesthetic sensibilities of a globalized, rapidly changing world. In this collection of...  Read More >>

Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards...  Read More >>

Pedro Ferreira examines aesthetics in contemporary audiovisual arts as reactions to our post-digital condition....  Read More >>

A groundbreaking, award-winning analysis of color in Western culture, from the ancient Greeks to the late-twentieth...  Read More >>

A collection of critical and creative essays exploring pataphysics, a late nineteenth-century French absurdist precursor...  Read More >>

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From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art  Read More >>

This book offers a theory of those formal properties of art that are apt to afford strong aesthetic experience –...  Read More >>

This book provides a Renaissance art historian’s view of how the picturesque aesthetic developed from roots in the...  Read More >>

Redressing the neglect of World War I memorials in art history scholarship, this volume shows why sculptures of...  Read More >>

The first monograph on a groundbreaking Surrealist masterpiece, Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals offers a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Jill Carrick's Nouveau Réalisme, 1960s France, and the Neo-avantgarde provides the first in-depth historical analysis...  Read More >>

The first book in English on the artist, Maruja Mallo and the Spanish Avant-Garde examines the life and art of a...  Read More >>

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The newest volume in the beloved ekphrasis series focuses on dance and poetry through the eyes of one of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated...  Read More >>

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This study evaluates how the policies and the practices of art developed by the Soviets have been influential in...  Read More >>

This book explores the contemporary legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki following the passage of three quarters of...  Read More >>