Theory of art books

This volume provides an examination of the idea of modernity.  Read More >>

'Abstract expressionism' refers to the non-representational use of form and color as a means of expression that...  Read More >>

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The experience of digital art and how it is relevant to information technology.  Read More >>

The accelerating - iconic turn in our society today increasingly demands the interactive representation of contextual...  Read More >>

By studying the emergence and importance of the concepts of 'fashion', 'distraction', 'non-simultaneity' and 'mimesis'...  Read More >>

Pre-eminent author and art historian Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to great acclaim.  Read More >>

The eleven interconnected essays of this book penetrate the dense historical knots binding terror, power and the...  Read More >>

Based on the 2003 Clark Conference, this new volume in the highly successful series Clark Studies in the Visual...  Read More >>

A fascinating group of previously unpublished texts by the Latin American artist Gego, focusing on her exploration...  Read More >>

By Lawrence Rinder. Introduction by Bill Arning.  Read More >>

For Miller, the issue of the production/reception of a work of art is a genuine dialectic. From ""polemical"" pieces...  Read More >>

Exploring the ways in which artists and architects handle the blurring lines between their disciplines, this illustrated...  Read More >>

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Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes...  Read More >>

How human consciousness evolved to perceive and create art.  Read More >>

Virilio discusses the relationship of war trauma and art and the failure of visual art to reinvent itself when confronted...  Read More >>

The accelerating iconic turn in our society today increasingly demands the interactive representation of contextual...  Read More >>

"Providing concise introduction to the intersection between critical theory and art history, this is the second...  Read More >>

With chapters devoted to each major thinker of the twentieth and twenty-first century including: Walter Benjamin...  Read More >>

The conservation of contemporary art should not be a static process carried out behind closed doors but dynamic...  Read More >>

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Contains a selection of essays presented at the international conference on Cultural Crises in Art and Literature,...  Read More >>

What is 'art'? Why have human societies through all time and around the globe created those objects we call works...  Read More >>

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