Visual culture incorporates a number of different visual practices including art, design, performance, architecture, film and photography. The study of visual culture is interdisciplinary, deriving…

The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key…

In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and…

This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand a variety…

As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the…

In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told…

Theory for Art History provides clear and concise introductions to thirty key figures of contemporary theory: four essential predecessors – Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, and Saussure…

Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the…