We engage with works of art in many ways, yet almost all modern philosophers of art have focused entirely on one mode of engagement: disinterested attention...
A Companion to Public Art is the only scholarly volume to examine the main issues, theories, and practices of public art on a comprehensive scale. Edited...
The interfaces between art and the scientific disciplines of biology, environmental science, neuroscience, and physics pose interdisciplinary questions...
Katarzyna Zimna links the theory and history of 20th and 21st century art with ideas developed within play, game and leisure studies, and the philosophical...
What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images rather than by the monolithic objects often described by...
Addressing the changing nature of art production, interpretation and spectatorship in contemporary art, this collection focuses on key developments that...
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the 20th century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously...
While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars...
Beginning with an account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, this study creates a matrix of inflections...
Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? This...