Theory of art books

Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun...  Read More >>

What is the future of conceptualism? What expressions can it take in the 21st century? Is there a new role for aesthetic...  Read More >>

Beholding considers the spatially situated encounter between artwork and spectator. It argues that artworks created...  Read More >>

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Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and...  Read More >>

Choreomata is a book about performance and performativity, but more specifically it is a book about the performance...  Read More >>

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and...  Read More >>

Choreomata is a book about performance and performativity, but more specifically it is a book about the performance...  Read More >>

English summary: The paintings of the landscape painter Carl Blechen (1798-1840) often have a stage-like quality....  Read More >>

Borrowing concepts from cognitive philosophy and bringing them into a conversation with critical theory, Gareth...  Read More >>

Based on an extensive and very meticulous study of different archives and the evaluation of original, previously...  Read More >>

Body – art – performance – philosophy This anthology is dedicated to the theme of bodies – in transition,...  Read More >>

Denken – Sprechen – Hören: Ein Werkporträt Das Hören bzw. der Klang der gesprochenen Sprache bildet einen fließenden,...  Read More >>

This book examines these sublime linkages in a comparative and interdisciplinary way. Engaging and intersectional,...  Read More >>

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Highlighting intersections of gender, race, and class and their explosive encounters with Pop Art during the Long...  Read More >>

What exactly is contemporary war art in the West today? This book considers the place of contemporary war art in...  Read More >>

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

A thrilling mystery set in Venice by the prizewinning Austrian author, Gerhard Roth. The second installment in his...  Read More >>

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An exploration of food, ingestion, and digestion in the emerging field of the metabolic arts. An exploration of...  Read More >>

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Three books in one (Ger./Engl.) Nan Hoover, Anneliese Hager and Maria Lassnig are women artists who expressed...  Read More >>

Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images addresses the ethicality of relations between the art, the artist...  Read More >>

This Festschrift contains twenty-four essays, which pay tribute to the scholarship of Walter S. Melion. The chapters...  Read More >>