Theory of art books

A brief study of select Western art from Italy's foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was...  Read More >>

Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model, this book proposes to...  Read More >>

New interdisciplinary research in education Given the current demands on schools and the challenges they face...  Read More >>

""Originally published in 2023 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain""--Title page.  Read More >>

What is pretentiousness? Why are we afraid of it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture?...  Read More >>

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Focal Points is a new book series of essays, articles and reviews, by acclaimed curator and critic Robert Storr....  Read More >>

Anatomy in Motion is an expansive collection of incredibly detailed photography and overlaid illustrations, showing...  Read More >>

The hype surrounding alternative medicine, the widespread goal of healthy eating and sport, the tendency to flee...  Read More >>

This publication is dedicated to 17th-century illustrated French thesis prints from a historical and theoretical...  Read More >>

Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in and apprehending a cosmos in which...  Read More >>

Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in and apprehending a cosmos in which...  Read More >>

A collection of work by 80 artists who explore the contemporary art world’s fundamental concerns of value, markets,...  Read More >>

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Amsterdam, 2021, under the title: Creating a new Europe...  Read More >>

Reevaluating experiments in fashion and decorative arts, Mauss shows how art takes shape in open-ended conversation--""between...  Read More >>

A show challenging conventional understandings of public art, Culture in Action in Chicago had a new social agenda,...  Read More >>

Almost 30 years after the founding of the first curatorial studies program (at the Ecole du Magasin, Grenoble),...  Read More >>

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The 1998 Bienal de São Paulo remade art history from a Brazilian perspective, and presented a new model for exhibition-making...  Read More >>

Cerith Wyn Evans' gloriously uncategorizable oeuvre has spanned installation works, sculptures, photography, film,...  Read More >>

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In response to the Art Basel fair, the authors (members of a research group of the University of St. Gallen), present...  Read More >>

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Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gustav Metzger.  Read More >>

Over the course of about ten years, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Matthew Barney met several times to discuss Barney's...  Read More >>