A general theory of visual culture

What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theo...

Abstract expressionists: the women

This magnificent publication surveys the vital role of women in the development of Abstract Expressionism by looking at more than 50 paintings, collages, and sculptures all accompanied by carefully selected quotes from the artists themselves.The dominant movement of the New York and San Francisco...

Angela su

Angela Su: Melancholia is published in conjunction with the artist's eponymously titled first solo exhibition in the Western Hemisphere.

Another lens

The book situates diverse lens-based practices within a larger orbit of South Asian visual culture.

Arabicity

Beautifully produced volume, including over 150 artworks by 50 contemporary Arab artists, whose ground-breaking works reflect the pulse of region

Artistic transfer

Ursula Bertram contends that when artistic thought is circulated and probed in nonartistic fields, a crucial pattern called artistic transfer emerges.

At home in the world

Gulammohammed Sheikh has played a pioneering role in contemporary Indian art’s engagement with hybridity. At Home in the World presents the first comprehensive study of the art and life of this seminal figure, bringing together aspects of biographical discussion alongside other modes of art histo...

Colour, light and wonder in islamic art

An original investigation into the aesthetics of colour in pre-modern Islamic world

Curves for the mathematically curious

Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today's most important math writersCurves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by Julian Havil for their significance, mathematical interest, and beauty. Each chapter gives an acco...

Decentering world’s fairs

How are art and fashion histories connected? An analysis focusing on transcultural style migrations in a globalized art world.

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An in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitanTwo centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture—museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras—to mirror European art. But today’s Amer...

Estrangement principle

A book-length essay that travels through the limits and landscapes of categorization in recent histories of literature and art

Exploring the invisible

How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired F...

Geometries of silence

Based on little-known or hitherto unpublished material and enhanced by a wealth of rarely seen illustrations, this book offers access to the aesthetics of neoclassical Europe from a new perspective: landscape painting and interior decoration. The source documents, together with the nexus of relat...

Hardware and eco-feminist art

A venture to build feminist hardware art made from unconventional materials according to ecofeminist principles of care and consent.

Harry clarke

In this comprehensive collection of Harry Clarke’s works now back in print, this beautiful book introduces his illustrations with detailed explanations. It is a must-have treasured book for fans of "The Golden Age of Illustration" (1880s - 1920s).(Mostly Japanese text, some English as supplementary)

Image and insight

K.b. goel

The Delhi-based art critic K. B. Goel (1930–2018) wrote on art from the late 1950s to the 90s, his career broadly coinciding with the modernist period. This annotated volume seeks to bring together Goel’s major writings, accompanied by a critical introduction that draws attention to his framework...

Lotty rosenfeld

Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces is a companion publication to the eponymous, first US retrospective of Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld

Many-valued aesthetics

Hauke Ohls brings Mary Bauermeister's central groups of works in context with each other as well as with the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period in Europe and the USA.

On discourse and the curatorial

In On Discourse and the Curatorial, Mick Wilson draws out the link between the imperative to generate discourse and the imperative to civilize that emerge in the genealogy of the salon, the exhibition complex, and the museum.

Only too much is enough

In this volume, Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon's long-time friend and biographer, has gathered Bacon’s most memorable aphorisms.

Partisans of the nude

Partisans of the Nude is a survey of genre art of the nude made by artists in areas that were formerly Ottoman but not yet Arab.

Teaching artistic strategies

This collection strengthens new communities of educators and researchers in arts and design, whose practices are built on the concept of care as empathetic knowledge production.

The art of baron yoshimoto

This is the new ground of Gekiga artist Baron Yoshimoto From Baron Yoshimoto’s vast collection of works from his 60-year career ranging from Gekiga (comics aimed at adult audiences with a dramatic and cinematic style and more mature themes) and illustrations to paintings on paper and canvas, this...

The cultural infrastructure of cities

This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on infrastructure, inviting readers to (re)consider the ways that culture is produced and expressed within cities by examining the geographies of its spaces, venues, performances and embodiments.

The severed head

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the hea...

The triangle of representation

Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "stands for" something absent?) and a political issue (W...

The white review no. 25

The White Review is an arts and literature quarterly magazine, with triannual print and monthly online editions. The magazine launched in London in February 2011 to provide ‘a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre’, and publishes fiction, essays, int...

Virtual reality exhibited

A world within a world: exploring virtual reality in contemporary art, its technical potential, aesthetic qualities, and associated imaginations.