Gathers interviews, articles, letters, and manifestos dealing with Postimpressionism, symbolism, fauvism, Expressionism, and cubism.

Explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, bringing together philosophy, art theory, and many examples. This work discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, sex, web sites, and research on the brain's role in perceiving art. It is suitable for the public, introductory students, and teachers in the arts.

A presentation of the writings of contemporary artists. It includes essays, interviews, and critical and theoretical comments that provide insights into the construction of visual knowledge. It also includes texts that address visual literacy, cultural studies, and the theoretical debates regarding modernism and postmodernism.

This work offers comprehensive representation of the theories which underpinned developments in the visual arts during the 20th century. As well as writings by artists, the anthology includes texts by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures.

A look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning. Using comics to examine the medium itself, the author takes the form of a cartoon character and explains the structure, meaning, and appeal of comics, and provides a running analysis of comics as art, literature, and communication.

The 3rd revised and enlarged edition of this introduction to modern art in the WORLD OF ART series, which now includes a new essay, POSTMODERNISM AND THE ART OF IDENTITY which brings the story of modern art right up to the present.

Shows how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it in the Renaissance. This book shows that it wasn't until the invention of Pop art that the historical understanding of the means and ends of art was nullified.

A classic study of image-making, this text seeks to answer a simple question: why is there such a thing as style? Professor Gombrich's exploration of the history and psychology of pictorial representation leads him to examine, question and re-evaluate old and new ideas.

Examines the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death. This title offers an investigation into the nature of photographs.

A work of art criticism that contains advice, critical comment and inspiration to a student of the arts.

Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. This title examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.

Alberti`s Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study of painting. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new.

One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting over the course of his career.

Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.

Here, the themes and concepts of Renaissance art are analysed and related to both classical and medieval tendencies.