Theory of art books

This book brings together essays by international scholars who take up Barbara Creed’s ideas, first explored in...  Read More >>

Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism is structured around four distinct but interrelated projects...  Read More >>

Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain explores how visual culture – including...  Read More >>

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object...  Read More >>

The 21st century's first major academic reassessment of Impressionism, providing a new generation of scholars with...  Read More >>

This book examines a wide range of these essays on topics such as posthumanism, racism, feminism, necropolitics,...  Read More >>

This book examines a wide range of these essays on topics such as posthumanism, racism, feminism, necropolitics,...  Read More >>

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Politics of art under National Socialism This publication deals with the most powerful Nazi institution for the...  Read More >>

The aesthetic pleasures of today's popular visual culture - sentimental, violent, vulgar, spectacular, humorous,...  Read More >>

Der Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung widmet sich erstmals dem im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit...  Read More >>

Xu Fuguan (1904-1982) is one of the central representatives of the second generation of Taiwanese Modern Confucianism....  Read More >>

How to Draw Roses is the perfect book for beginner drawers who want to quickly achieve a sense of mastery with their...  Read More >>

Master your inner artist and discover how you can begin drawing Animals Spiroglyphics with ease! At first, all...  Read More >>

Concentrationary Memories is based in the idea that the concentrationary plague unleashed on the world by the Nazis...  Read More >>

""Color Theory gives an overview of the history of color theory, providing students with practical guidance on the...  Read More >>

Addressing Spinoza’s perennial question: “why do the masses fight for their servitude as if it was salvation?”,...  Read More >>

In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary...  Read More >>

Addressing Spinoza’s perennial question: “why do the masses fight for their servitude as if it was salvation?”,...  Read More >>

Illustrated by classic American paintings and photographs, and accompanied with a prescient new appraisal, this...  Read More >>

This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history....  Read More >>

A collection of essays that explore the divide and polarisation of opinion over musical theatre, and what we can...  Read More >>

An investigation into the elements of looking, combining art and science and painting a portrait of our culture,...  Read More >>