Theory of art books

An anthology of contemporary art theory. In this book leading cultural critics, art theorists, and artists re-examine...  Read More >>

A personal view of how to enjoy the pleasures that make life worth living: beautiful sights, fascinating objects,...  Read More >>

This book explores the creative leaps that led some of the greatest scientists and artists to dramatically transform...  Read More >>

The subject of this book is the human imagination - and the interplay between the imagination and the spaces it...  Read More >>

Theories of Art Today explore a variety of issues including: aesthetic and institutional theories of art, feminist...  Read More >>

A provocative look at the contemporary art scene by one of the country's leading art critics.  Read More >>

Drawing on analyses of texts by Derrida, Deleuze and other leading critics, as well as illustrations of artworks...  Read More >>

Theories of Art Today explore a variety of issues including: aesthetic and institutional theories of art, feminist...  Read More >>

Originally published as a series of lessons in Hambidge's magazine, The Diagonal, this engrossing book explains...  Read More >>

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This work looks at popular American and Japanese comic strips to identify and solve the aesthetic problems posed...  Read More >>

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Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented...  Read More >>

An uplifiting blueprint the future of art that shows how creativity gives energy and meaning to our existence. Topics...  Read More >>

In the 21st century, the screen - the Internet screen, the television screen, the video screen and all sorts of...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art, Amsterdam, 1-7 September 1996  Read More >>

Modern Japanese Aesthetics is a work on the history of the Japanese philosophy of art, from its inception in the...  Read More >>

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This text offers a provocative critique of beauty in interaction with the contemporary notion of the sublime. Refuting...  Read More >>

The definitive illustrated monograph on 20th-century Swiss artist, designer, and architect Max Bill, whose work...  Read More >>

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When Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900, he began the modern study of a phenomenon that...  Read More >>

In this study, the author explores how Conrad, T.S.Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, Hemingway, Huxley and others responded...  Read More >>

Explores our changing cultural perceptions of the relations between technology and art. In an age of high tech,...  Read More >>