Theory of art books

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Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of examples taken from...  Read More >>

Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of examples taken from...  Read More >>

Edited by Matthias Winzen. Essays by Diana Ebster, Thomas Meinecke, Rainald Schumacher, Birgit Sonna and Katharina...  Read More >>

A major Bloomsbury figure writes about the art market, and an economist interprets his ideas  Read More >>

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The issue of placing has great importance for contemporary art. The contributors to Space Invaders explore, from...  Read More >>

In this volume, architects, artists, theorists, three symposia and four exhibitions attempt to find answers to questions...  Read More >>

Shows how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that...  Read More >>

Essays by Vil m Flusser, George Brecht and Roberto Ohrt. Foreword by Friedemann Malsch and Christiane Meyer-Stoll....  Read More >>

Tamss--which means contact, touch, contiguity, adjacency, tangency and confrontation line(s)--is part of Catherine...  Read More >>

Critiques Eurocentrism in the prevailing art-culture system and reexamines the culture wars within the context of...  Read More >>

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An anthology of essays on early Italian painting, by critic-historian Richard Offner. It spans 14th-century Florentine...  Read More >>

The culminating work in a trilogy of books exploring the roots and genesis of pictorial modernism. Fried provides...  Read More >>

Includes the questionnaire and reproductions of the 'most wanted' and 'most unwanted' paintings the artists made...  Read More >>

What is it that an artist paints in a painting? This book shows how, through shades and limits, the painter renders...  Read More >>

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Hegel's ""Aesthetics"" gives full expression to his theory of art. He considers the nature of art, surveys the history...  Read More >>

Techno is one of the more spectacular and mediatized aspects of contemporary culture. But is it more than mere entertainment,...  Read More >>

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This book debates questions of place and praxis. How are geographical, cultural and artistic identities created...  Read More >>

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Acclaimed nature photographer Art Wolfe focuses on his home region with masterful portraits of the mountains, forests,...  Read More >>