Theory of art books

At a time of existential threat to the physical and human environment we live in, architect and film maker Nili...  Read More >>

Contemporary art can seem chaotic: sometimes it made of weird things, sometimes it just comprises ideas. Sherri...  Read More >>

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A vital multi-volume collection of critical writings and key source material for the field of performance theory...  Read More >>

Presents sculpture, painting, drawings, prints, and photographs from throughout the artist's illustrious career....  Read More >>

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Includes iconic works of 50 great artists, from Michelangelo to Tracey Emin  Read More >>

Serendipity and creativity are both broad, widely disputed, and yet consistently popular concepts which are relevant...  Read More >>

Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the...  Read More >>

What is real? What is true? Picturing Figures and Faces collects theoretical essays and artists' studies, published...  Read More >>

This monograph of works is dedicated to artist Arne Quinze featuring installations in New York, Shanghai, London....  Read More >>

A guide to choosing, completing, and sharing a 100-day creative project.  Read More >>

One of the most versatile journalists of the 20th century, Siegfried Kracauer was a passionate cinema-goer who,...  Read More >>

"Artists engage with materiality and value, with subatomic particles and radiation, as well as with the objectification...  Read More >>

An examination of the introduction of a non-human actor into the field of intersubjectivity. An examination of...  Read More >>

Phenomenologically speaking, the task of the study is to excavate, listen to, unfold, divulge, and reconstruct the...  Read More >>

This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity...  Read More >>

A lively and rigorous investigation into what it means to lead a creative life today-from the new opportunities...  Read More >>

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"" Gran parte de lo que vemos y observamos en la vida es intocable. El don de la pintura es hacer que esas cosas...  Read More >>

First published in 1979, Inner Visions discussion the nature of contemporary magical thought – encompassing the...  Read More >>

This book argues that our preferences towards art are rooted in our psychology and can be explained by differences...  Read More >>

The volume addresses a distinct field in the anthropology of culture, namely that of creativity.  Read More >>

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