Theory of art books

The power of poetry, a topos since Plato, undergoes a radical transformation in literary texts between 1770 and...  Read More >>

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This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century...  Read More >>

This book examines transmissibility to remind us why the vitality and epistemic significance of an artwork is anachronistic...  Read More >>

Presenting a vision of viewing art, this book attempts to unify the three passions of the author - philosophy, psychology,...  Read More >>

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Influential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham—a pioneer in new media systems aesthetics...  Read More >>

This illustrated volume uses the art of Islamic ornamentation to demonstrate how ornament in general enables a direct,...  Read More >>

12 Essays on De-/Anti-/Post-colonial feminisms in contemporary art and textile craft by different authors.  Read More >>

This book reclaims Hegel’s notion of the “end of art”—or, more precisely, of “art’s past character”—not just as...  Read More >>

Transnational artistic creation has become a matter of course in our globalized world. But what did migrant art...  Read More >>

By surveying historical constructions of childhood, this book explores how representations of the child in visual...  Read More >>

Offers a new approach to the Russian avant-garde. It argues that central writers, artists, and theorists of the...  Read More >>

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This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American...  Read More >>

An anthology that accompanies Culturescapes 2023 Sahara, the 17th edition of the Swiss multidisciplinary festival....  Read More >>

C.C. Wang (1907-2003) is best known as a preeminent twentieth-century connoisseur and collector of pre-modern Chinese...  Read More >>

本书分为三个部分。 第一部分关于新档案库的诞生及其过程。在此我们可以窥见这些独立的亚洲艺术档案库在何种历史背景和动力的驱动下诞生。 第二部分则收录那些使用档案库概念或/ 和内容进行艺术及展览实践的艺术家和策展人的自述，或者是学者对这些作品/...  Read More >>

This book examines the legacy of international interwar modernism as a case of cultural transfer through the travels...  Read More >>

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Die Publikation widmet sich den Beziehungen zwischen Restaurierung und Politik in der Kunst der italienischen Renaissance....  Read More >>

The Painting Master’s Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the Xuanhe Catalogue...  Read More >>

Comprehensive presentation of Jacques Rancière’s thought on relations between politics and literature in the context...  Read More >>