Theory of art books

A provocative triptych of black queer desire, articulated through aesthetic works and experiences  Read More >>

Studio-X New York is one node of a global network that includes spaces in Beijing, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro. To...  Read More >>

Once described as the King Recording Label's “Gospel Ranger,” Brother Claude Ely (1922-1978) was known and loved...  Read More >>

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This book is ambitiously inter-disciplinary. Its eleven works, in full colour, form a striking contribution to the...  Read More >>

What is cultural about vision - or visual about culture? This book provides answers to these questions by presenting...  Read More >>

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An introduction to the analysis of fictional worlds in a set of fifteen arts, including theatre, opera, figurative...  Read More >>

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This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book which gathers together the writings that made him...  Read More >>

For two millennia philosophy has restlessly stalked a fundamental problem-the answer to the question ""what is art,...  Read More >>

This book questions how we analyse works of art after the performative turn and shows how the interplay of performativity...  Read More >>

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Make Sound Color Choices Now in an updated Fourth Edition, Understanding Color helps you connect the dots between...  Read More >>

Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century....  Read More >>

Der neue Band aus der Reihe ""Art and Architecture in Discussion"" prasentiert zwei international bekannte Kunstler...  Read More >>

Develops the thesis that the transition from premodernism to postmodernism in art of the digital age represents...  Read More >>

Introduces the traditional houses, barns, watermills and chapels of the Lake District and the surrounding hills...  Read More >>

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Matters of value and judgment are the subject of recently intensified debate within art criticism. Has art criticism...  Read More >>

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In From Image to Interaction, Amsterdam-based essayist and media theorist Arjen Mulder retells the past 500 years...  Read More >>

In Grow Beautifully I have the power to be Guenther Rohde shares his thoughts, to communicate change through...  Read More >>

A collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years is cacophony of voices from such diverse movements as Futurism,...  Read More >>