Theory of art books

This book is Wassily Kandinsky's groundbreaking work championing spirituality in modern art, leading to a revolution...  Read More >>

"Activist essays on ending the Anthropocene, from Belgian theorist Lieven De Cauter, author of Entropic Empire and...  Read More >>

Essays and criticism on artist, writers, and living as a European writer in the midst of Brexit.In Pieces offers...  Read More >>

Far from an elite practice reserved for the highly educated, criticism is all around us. We turn to the Yelp reviewers...  Read More >>

This volume is a study of the connected ideas of ""queer"" and ""gender performance"" or ""performativity"" over...  Read More >>

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This book is Wassily Kandinsky's groundbreaking work championing spirituality in modern art, leading to a revolution...  Read More >>

Speculation is a risky endeavour. As a wager on unavailable futures, presents to come or alternative pasts, it refers...  Read More >>

The book analyses the production and reception of allegorical wall paintings of the Trecento in the context of patronage,...  Read More >>

Situationen sind konstituierende Grundelemente von Geschehnissen und Handlungen im Alltag sowie in den Künsten....  Read More >>

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Explores the life, career, and intellectual debates of art historian Meyer Schapiro, who worked at the nexus of...  Read More >>

An intersectional take on design history and the design discourse, with feminist, decolonial, anti-racist, activist,...  Read More >>

‘Navigating the Planetary’ points to an interconnected art world that transcends not only art’s old Eurocentric...  Read More >>

What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by...  Read More >>

Learn to draw different animals of the world Learning to draw funny animals is easy with this mesh copy method!...  Read More >>

This catalogue is devoted to artists whose oeuvre has been fuelled by this source of imagination. Text in English...  Read More >>

Walter Gropius outlines the guiding principles of Bauhaus living, from household utensils to textiles and ceramics....  Read More >>

Architect, theorist, dadaist—van Doesburg describes the circumstances of being an artist in the increasingly capitalistic...  Read More >>

Schlemmer’s vision of how to define dance, theater, and music  Read More >>

Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition...  Read More >>

Discover how several contemporary artists have stepped outside the boundaries of the studio, untethered by the emphasis...  Read More >>

In this intimate study Juliet Miller maps the artworks that have influenced her throughout her life and examines...  Read More >>