Theory of art books

""As the Modernist dream of a world purged of archaic decor and ornamentaion recedes, we should remember that the...  Read More >>

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Challenging the assumption that Seurat's work was scientific or that it expressed a serious commitment to anarchism,...  Read More >>

Clearly presented discussions of fields, vector spaces, homogeneous linear equations, extension fields, polynomials,...  Read More >>

Introducing abstract painting and sculpture of the 20th century, this volume explores new ways to think about abstract...  Read More >>

Cultural Writing. New to SPD, this odd and compelling book is a collection of Stewart Home's letters, mostly to...  Read More >>

Ruskin offers criticism, appreciation and instruction for artists. The text covers principles of drawing and painting...  Read More >>

Defining over 400 terms and phrases that have recently entered discourse on the visual arts, this is the first reference...  Read More >>

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Discusses how Angelico's painting reveals important artistic innovations from his use of linear perpsective to his...  Read More >>

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What art is—its very nature—is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing...  Read More >>

Presents a fresh theory of pictures. This title develops a vocabulary for describing the representational systems...  Read More >>

This work documents the network of ideas that has been labelled conceptual art. Including texts by and taped discussions...  Read More >>

The political and personal influences which dictated the choice of themes in David's art are explored in this book....  Read More >>

A revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period from 1260 to 1370, this work discusses Vasari's...  Read More >>

By examining the opposing nonrealistic view of subjectivity, noncognitivism and relativism, Zemach attempts to show...  Read More >>

An investigative tour de force. It untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges...  Read More >>

Examines the Federation des Artistes' assembly formed in the Paris Commune of 1871, recounts the program and activities...  Read More >>

Shows how, once an art work is seen and understood, communicative function is effectively added to the work. This...  Read More >>

In this book Dian Kriz critically examines the emergence of the Romantic concept of the landscape genius, arguing...  Read More >>

ID surveys the notion of identity in the work of nine contemporary artists who are each radically changing the nature...  Read More >>

Discusses whether art has an essential kind of history, derived from its own internal dynamic; whether that history...  Read More >>

Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western art. It has been the most popular genre of painting...  Read More >>