Konstteori

'A really good starting point to discover what lights you up' - Emma Gannon 'Unlock your inner creativity and ease your anxiety' Daily Telegraph THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER Since its first publication, The Artis...

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The 50th anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies The landmark 1963 book by Josef Albers . . . isnt just for aspiring artists. Its mesmerizing illustrations are a revelation for anyone interested in c...

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This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments, controversies and divergent perspectives. This edition has been updated to reflect rece...

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Wassily Kandinskys Om det andliga i konsten tillhör 1900-talets viktigaste teoretiska texter om konst. Den skapade ett stort intresse för abstraktion och anknyter trots sin modernism till äldre tiders traktat om måleri. Här presenteras den återige...

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This invaluable guide enables students to get the most from their art history course. Written in an accessible style, the book introduces two basic art historical methods - formal analysis and contextual analysis. In this new edition revising auth...

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Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of ar...

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Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes befo...

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OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE 'You will quickly amaze and delight yourself. Hands down the best and most life-enhancing thing I've done in lockdown' India Knight, Sunday Times Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the wor...

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Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw. In this book, Bert Dodson shares his complete drawing systemfifty-five "keys" that you can use to render any subject with confidence, even if you're a beginner. These keys, along with ...

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A book that lays out the fundamental concepts of design culture and outlines a design-driven way to approach the world. Humans did not discover fire-they designed it. Design is not defined by software programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we ...

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New edition of this key guide to art history, which takes a critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts over the past two centuries, including the most important new writing on the most recent work in a variety of new media.

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Learn how to confidently draw the human form from head to toe with this comprehensive, richly illustrated guide. Expert drawing instructor and storyboard artist Tom Fox knows exactly how to capture the figure in poses that are both dynamic and tru...

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Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one ...

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'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth a...

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Baudelaires berömda essä över samhällets modernisering och dess betydelse för den samtida konsten. 54 originalillustrationer av textens föremål, konstnären Constantin Guys. Elegant linneband med silversnitt och silvertryck på omslaget. En bok för ...

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Providing a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the study of photography, this second edition of Photography: The Key Concepts has been expanded and updated to cover more fully contemporary changes to photography. Photography is a part of e...

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Detta är en bok om bildtolkning och det intrikata samspelet mellan bild och text i läromedel, faktaböcker och populärkultur. Författaren belyser bildens tysta budskap, det vill säga de normer och värderingar som gestaltas i bilder men förblir okom...

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Naomi Rosenblum's classic history of photography traces the evolution of this young art form chronologically and thematically. Exploring the diverse roles that photography has played in the communication of ideas, Rosenblum devotes special attenti...

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Varför räknas måleriet och skulpturen, arkitekturen, musiken och poesin till de »sköna« konsterna? Och vilken betydelse har detta haft för för hur vi uppfattar vad som är konst och vad som inte är konst? I Kairos nr 2 redogör den amerikanske teore...

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Vilka teorier och verktyg står oss till buds när vi skall analysera en bild? Förhoppningsvis skall denna bok kunna ge ett svar. Den är ett resultat av ett flerårigt projekt med deltagande av flera av Nordens främsta experter inom bild- och mediafo...

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One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay 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 politic...

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This book explores the question of how to paint a realistic picture of something that doesn't exist. It is intended not only for artists interested in fantasy and science fiction, but also for anyone who wants to recreate history, visualize extinc...

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'Unlock your inner creativity and ease your anxiety' Daily Telegraph 'I absolutely love this book' Emma Gannon **THE MULTI-MILLION COPY WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER** Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the ...

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Drawing is not a talent. Its a skill anyone can learn. This is the philosophy of drawing instructor Brent Eviston based on his more than twenty years of teaching. He has tested numerous types of drawing instruction from centuries old classical tec...

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Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, "Art as Experience" has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on t...

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How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first navigates readers through the key elements of style...

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Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, sugges...

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Kairos nr 12: Konst, makt och politik är en antologi med texter från såväl politisk teori som konstteori och filosofi. Texterna förhåller sig till begreppen makt och representation, inom såväl det konstnärliga som det politiska; konstens politik o...

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How is it possible to think new thoughts? What is creativity and can science explain it? And just how did Coleridge dream up the creatures of The Ancient Mariner? When The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms was first published, Margaret A. Boden&...

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The Divine Proportion reveals a number of simple patterns: It is seen in the seed patterns of fruits, the family tree of bees, the pyramids of Egypt, Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance paintings, the human body, shells ... the list is endless. Mathema...

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