Art : Criticism & Theory

Platoons of the latest replicas of Banksy roam the landscape, led by General Clone Banksy, a talentless nobody who once found a sample of Banksy DNA on an em......

'Forum' presents a spectral image of our culture and collective psyche via the reflective portal of an internet football forum. Documenting the exchanges bet......

"The New Art History" provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art histo......

In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled 32 Soup Cans in his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles-and sent the art world reeling. The......

The classic work of art criticism, in a beautiful new edition Author: Henri, Robert Publisher: Basic Books Illustration: N Language: ENG Title: The Art Spir......

For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and ......

This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitney Museum ......

Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today. Countering......

David Sylvester, who died in June 2001, was one of the greatest art critics of our time. He achieved fame with his work on Cezanne but became known especiall......

This new collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature and media features the following pieces: "The Last Chocolate Bar and the Maj......

William Morris, famed as an author, illutrator, designer, and craftsman, is revealed as a passionate believer in the preservation of buildings of historical ......

Parks, maps, and mapping technologies like the GPS are objects of visual and material culture that rely on the interplay of text, context, image, and space t......

This eloquent essay by a scholar recognized as perhaps our greatest contemporary philosopher of art is a classic of modern aesthetics. It is one of the few s......

Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, a......

Revealing Art is a stimulating and lucid book about why art is important and the role of the imagination in art, illustrated with colour and black-and-white ......

Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory ......

The 1971 conflict mired Pakistan in a bitter civil war and brutal stuggle both within its own country and against neighboring India. Backed by the Soviet Uni......

What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the developed West and in Asia or in developing nat......

This volume identifies the question of artistic citizenship to explore civic identity. Featuring contributions from experts in the field, this book is indisp......

Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Author: Richie, Donald Publisher: Stone Bridge Press Illustr......