Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively and aesthetically. He develops a phenomenology that emphasizes how visual art gi...(展开全部)

斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那欧罗巴大学人文学院的哲学教授。他是爱尔兰皇家科学院院士，曾为牛津大学艺术史讲师，并为该校基督圣体学院成员。他在四所欧洲大学获得了正教授职位（其中包括德国不来梅雅格布大学和爱尔兰国立大学高威分校等），共出版了十七部涉及美学、二十世纪艺术与当代艺术领域的专著。克劳瑟教授最新出版的著作有Theory of the Art Object，以及两本有关后现代艺术的著作：Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation: The Birth of a Medium和Geneses of Postmodern Art: Technology as Iconology。

斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那欧罗巴大学人文学院的哲学教授。他是爱尔兰皇家科学院院士，曾为牛津大学艺术史讲师，并为该校基督圣体学院成员。他在四所欧洲大学获得了正教授职位（其中包括德国不来梅雅格布大学和爱尔兰国立大学高威分校等），共出版了十七部涉及美学、二十世纪艺术与当代艺术领域的专著。克劳瑟教授最新出版的著作有Theory of the Art Object，以及两本有关后现代艺术的著作：Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation: The Birth of a Medium和Geneses of Postmodern Art: Technology as Iconology。

Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively and aesthetically. He develops a phenomenology that emphasizes how visual art gi...(展开全部)

The work of Alois Riegl (1858-1905) has been highly influential in art history of the modern age. Riegl, the most important member of the so-called Vienna School, developed a refined technique of visual or formal analysis that departed from the iconological method, which emphasized decoding motifs through recourse to texts. Riegl also pioneered understanding of the changing rol...(展开全部)

The work of Alois Riegl (1858-1905) has been highly influential in art history of the modern age. Riegl, the most important member of the so-called Vienna School, developed a refined technique of visual or formal analysis that departed from the iconological method, which emphasized decoding motifs through recourse to texts. Riegl also pioneered understanding of the changing rol...(展开全部)

Using a wealth of examples, Arnheim considers the factors that determine the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Rudolf Arnheim has been known, since the publication of his groundbreaking "Art and Visual Perception" in 1974, as an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. Two anniversary volumes celebrate the landmark anniversaries of his works in 2009. In "The Power of the Center", Arnheim uses a wealth of examples to consider the factors that determine the overal...(展开全部)

In his thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and the arts, Giuliana Bruno addresses the crucial role that architecture plays in the production of art and the making of public intimacy. As art melts into spatial construction and architecture mobilizes artistic vision, Bruno argues, a new moving space--a screen of vital cultural memory--has come to s...(展开全部)

Sociology of the Arts is a comprehensive overview of the sociology of art and an authoritative work of scholarship by a leading expert in the field. The book synthesizes the various theoretical models of art sociology, and provides empirical examples as well as stimulating exemplars of sociological work on the arts. Case studies of art works are from both ends of the cultural s...(展开全部)