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Looking In
The Art of Viewing
Mieke Bal is one of Europe's leading theorists and critics. Her work within feminist art history and cultural studies provides a fascinating alternative to prevailing… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-9057011122 (Routledge)
Framing Formalism
Riegl's Work
Alois Riegl (1858-1905) was one of the founding fathers of modern formalist criticism. As a member of the Vienna School of Art Historians, he shared… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-9057013225 (Routledge)
Feminist Visual Culture
Visual culture is all around us: television, dance, film, fashion, painting, sculpture, installation and fine art are only a few of its many faces. Feminist… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93686-6 (Routledge)
Theories of Art
1. From Plato to Winckelmann
This book, the first in Moshe Barasch's series on art theory, offers a comprehensive analysis and reassessment of major trends in European art theory and… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92625-6 (Routledge)
Theories of Art
3. From Impressionism to Kandinsky
In this volume, the third in his classic series on art theory, Moshe Barasch traces the hidden patterns and interlocking themes in the study of… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92627-0 (Routledge)
Theories of Art
2. From Winckelmann to Baudelaire
This second book in Moshe Barasch's series on art theory surveys the development of the field from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. During… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92626-3 (Routledge)
Looking Back to the Future
1990-1970
In this selection of recent essays, Pollock insightfully engages all major areas of contemporary theory, especially focusing on sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. In… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-9057011320 (Routledge)
What Painting Is
Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elkins’ compelling and original work focuses on alchemy, for like the alchemist,…
read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92662-1 (Routledge)
Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts
Art History as Writing
Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts examines art historical writing as an expressive medium, capable of emotion and reflection - and therefore deserving of serious… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92663-8 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
Art and Human Development
By Constance Milbrath, Cynthia Lightfoot
To be published December 2nd 2009
Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity
By Lorens Holm
To be published December 15th 2009
Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research
Edited by Katy Macleod, Lin HoldridgeColin Beardon
To be published January 4th 2010
Network Art: Practices and Positions
Edited by Tom Corby
To be published January 4th 2010
The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader: Second Edition
Edited by Amelia Jones
To be published January 20th 2010
The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives
Edited by Giorgio Riello, Peter McNeil
To be published April 27th 2010
Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice
By Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes
To be published June 1st 2010
The Pictorial Turn
Edited by Neal Curtis
To be published June 1st 2010
Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Politics, Ethics, Affect
By Marsha Meskimmon
To be published July 1st 2010
The Continental Aesthetics Reader
Edited by Clive Cazeaux
To be published July 1st 2010
Global Design History
Edited by Glenn Adamson, Giorgio Riello, Sarah Teasley
To be published July 15th 2010
Walter Benjamin
By Barbara Engh
To be published October 1st 2010