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| In this major study of a flexible and multifaceted mode of expression, Linda Hutcheon looks at works of modern literature, visual art,... Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, "Art as Experience" has grown...
Text by Ine Gevers, Renu Addlahka, Michel Callon, Johnson Cheu, Amade M'Charek. "Women, Art, and Power --seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history--brings together the work of almost twenty years of...
What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of...
Is the artist's monograph an endangered species or a timeless genre? This critical history traces the formal and conceptual trajectories of... The Optical Unconscious is a protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define...
This classic study probes the geometric interrelationships between art and life in dissertations by Plato, Pythagoras, and Archimedes and... This beautiful sketchbook is an exciting collection of fresh new images, revealed to us as they are seized by the artist's agile, nervous...
A scathing and incisive critique of the contemporary art world, in an updated new edition. The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, cafs, parks, and suburban pleasure grounds--the...
Over a decade ago, Arthur Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. Ever since this declaration, he has been at the forefront of a... Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you...
Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This... All human societies throughout history have given a special place to the arts. Even nomadic peoples who own scarcely any material...
An unprecedented intellectual achievement, this ground-breaking reference spans 30 years of intense research to present new,... Now in paperback, this groundbreaking study by Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone explores the inner workings of vision,...
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