Theory of art books

The first published monograph on the late Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi and her captivating self-portraits. The first...  Read More >>

Hans Ulrich Obrist leads readers into the world of path-breaking...  Read More >>

An essay-length argument for the autonomy of art in the present. An essay-length argument for the autonomy of art...  Read More >>

Equips readers with a foundational understanding of basic concepts in art. Also underscores the significant role...  Read More >>

Rethinking the discussion of sport and cinema, Sport, Film, and the Modern World takes an inter-disciplinary approach...  Read More >>

Jeanne Mammen’s watercolour images of the gender-bending ‘new woman’ and her candid portrayals of Berlin’s thriving...  Read More >>

The emergence and the activities of a second public sphere in the areas of Soviet influence were intricately linked...  Read More >>

Rethinking the discussion of sport and cinema, Sport, Film, and the Modern World takes an inter-disciplinary approach...  Read More >>

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

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Why do we enjoy artworks that depict disasters and suffering? Is this a hangover from the Modernist impulse to break...  Read More >>

This book analyses the dynamic relationship between art and subjective consciousness, following a phenomenological,...  Read More >>

This book bridges the gap between the many insights into art provided by research in evolutionary theory, psychology,...  Read More >>

This volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity...  Read More >>

Based on hitherto overlooked archival material, this book reveals Nell Walden’s significant impact on the Sturm...  Read More >>

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 30s, Millard Meiss (1904-1975) developed...  Read More >>

This multi-disciplinary book synthesises methodologies drawn from art history (close pictorial analysis), psychology...  Read More >>

This Element pries the examination of the senses and perception loose from the psychology laboratory to focus on...  Read More >>

A brilliantly buzzy consideration of how we - the fans - should respond to good art made by bad people  Read More >>

The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter Schjeldahl, the great New Yorker art critic  Read More >>

This Element pries the examination of the senses and perception loose from the psychology laboratory to focus on...  Read More >>

The book demonstrates for the first time that transculturality – the mixed constitution of cultures – is by no...  Read More >>

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This book explores the universal human existential trauma of ""original loss,"" a trauma the author describes as...  Read More >>

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