Indispensable reading for both art lovers and students, Art Theory, 2nd Edition explores Western thought about art from ancient times to the post-modern period. Wide-ranging and exceptionally balanced in its analysis, Art History relates theory to the practice as well as to the intellectual and cultural-historical currents of each period. This new edition expands the origina...(展开全部)

Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 is a groundbreaking anthology that captures the essence and the edge of the contemporary art scene. Provides the first truly comprehensive and international anthology of theory in contemporary art of the last two decades. Brings together a broad selection of important contributions to the fields of contemporary art, theory, and cultur...(展开全部)

The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings.

The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings.

In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, f...(展开全部)

Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view, and questions the criteria that accord art status only to a certain class of obj...(展开全部)

Review This book changes the very basis of the way art has been viewed in the human sciences. It presents what is the first fundamental theory for an anthropology of art. Its publication is a major event. Maurice Bloch, FBA, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics. This is a remarkable work ... witty, elegant, broad in its compass and scintillating in its detail. ...(展开全部)

作者：(美国)佐亚·科库尔(Zoya Kocur) (美国)梁硕恩(Simon Leung) 译者：王春辰 何积惠 李亮之 等佐亚·科库尔（Zoya Kocur）是一位独立学者兼美国纽约大学艺术系客座艺术教授，合作编著了《当代艺术与多元化文化教育）（1996年），并发表过多篇有关艺术教育学和博物馆教育学方面的论文。梁硕恩（Simon Leung）是一位艺术家兼美国欧文加利福尼亚大学演播艺术系副教授，他的作品曾在威尼斯三年展（2003年）和惠特尼双年展（1993年）上展出。 王春辰是中国艺术批评家、美术史学博士，现工作于中央美术学院美术馆。出版有《1940年以来的艺术》（2006年）、《绘画现象学》（2006年）、《装饰新思维》（2006年）、《艺术的终结之后）（2007年）等译著。