Theory of art books

A student reader on design history and aesthetics.  Read More >>

Explores the boundaries and affinities between art, anthropology, representation, and culture, casting a critical,...  Read More >>

This book explores body images in visual culture, from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. It engages...  Read More >>

This study counters the surge in fundamentalist thinking about the arts, with a liberal aesthetic for recent times....  Read More >>

Socialist, philosopher, and poet William Morris was at the center of the design renaissance of the 1880Us, not only...  Read More >>

Art Line Thought discusses the main issues that beset our time and philosophy by locating these same issues in...  Read More >>

This is an anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians as well...  Read More >>

This book explores body images in visual culture, from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. It engages...  Read More >>

Topics include: The Black Box approach to brain function; how...  Read More >>

Containing provocative applications of scholarly observation to practical life, this volume will be of interest...  Read More >>

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The Mystery of Art lets the forms of art tell their own tale. Instead of analyzing the art expressions this narrative...  Read More >>

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An account of how Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dealt with mystic visions in their...  Read More >>

Discusses the place of art in human evolution and in the future  Read More >>

Newton's Sleep examines the roles of science and art in human life. It deals with the charges that science is spiritually...  Read More >>

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Newton's Sleep examines the complementary roles of science and art in human life.  Read More >>

Presents the development and aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. This book traces...  Read More >>

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This volume offers discussions of single works as well as re-evaluations of artistic and literary conventions and...  Read More >>

In this companion volume to ""Iconology"", the author investigates pictures - the concrete, representational objects...  Read More >>

During the decades of his world fame, Tolstoy wrote this series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social...  Read More >>