Theory of art books

Post-Critical Museology considers what the role of the public and the experience of audiences means to the everyday...  Read More >>

Art Teaching speaks to a new generation of art teachers in a changing society and fresh art world. Comprehensive...  Read More >>

Examining the notion of time in art history, Keith Moxey argues that looking at a work of art creates an experience...  Read More >>

Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long...  Read More >>

Amongst recent contemporary art and museological publications, there have been relatively few which direct attention...  Read More >>

This book is a study of contemporary spirituality as it is practiced in the world today, characterized by its secular...  Read More >>

Any artist wishing to practice figure drawing or to understand the body's movement will do well to study the interaction...  Read More >>

Two-part treatment illustrates portrayal of bones and muscles with numerous color plates, plus more than 100 diagrams...  Read More >>

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Addresses art history's complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference,...  Read More >>

Through a wide range of international case studies, this interdisciplinary volume maps how oral history interviews...  Read More >>

In einer umfangreichen Untersuchung widmen sich Dieter Maurer und Claudia Riboni den fruhesten Zeichnungen und Malereien...  Read More >>

Primarily concerned with the feminist body as site for making and exhibiting works, this book examines themes that...  Read More >>

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First published in 1982, The Sociology of Art considers all forms of the arts, whether visual arts, literature,...  Read More >>

Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of ""the contemporary.""...  Read More >>

Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of ""the contemporary.""...  Read More >>

Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, curators, artists, and educators to ask how art is and should...  Read More >>

Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how images, pictures,...  Read More >>

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This collection of essays focuses on such topics as the daily experience of teaching art in today's public schools;...  Read More >>

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This dramatic compilation of 166 studies -- photographs, line drawings, and sculptures -- serves as both an exhilarating...  Read More >>