"This groundbreaking collection is among the first in the field of art history to explore the relation between the traumatic and the visual field in the modern period. Ranging across media and spanning from the origins of modernity to the present, the essays gathered here pursue…
Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700 examines the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia. The term "reflexive" is here used to refer to images that invite reflectio…
Deconstruction and the visual arts: art, media and architecture
by Derrida, Jacques, Bal, Mieke, Wigley, Mark, Rapaport, Herman, Melville, Stephen, Ropars-Wuilleumier, Marie Claire, Ulmer, Gregory L., Rodowick, David Norman, Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude, Preziosi, Donald, Altieri, Charles, Leavey, John P., Bloomer, Jennifer, Oswald, Laura R., Ingham, John M., Ray, Robert Beverley, Dienst, Richard
fromCambridge studies in new art and criticism
W.J.T. Mitchell - one of the founders of visual studies - has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacula…
The book Theory and Practice of Contrast completes, corrects and integrates the foundations of science and humanities, which include: theory of art, philosophy (aesthetics, epistemology, ontology, axiology), cognitive science, theory of information, theory of complexity and phys…
Art theory as visual epistemology
Since vision and picture-making are the realm of art, art theory picked up on questions such as: are pictures able to represent knowledge about the world? How does the production of images itself generate knowledge? How does pictorial logic differ from linguistic logic? How can …
