What is conceptual art? Is it really a kind of art in its own right? Is it clever – or too clever?

Of all the different…

Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In…

Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you can…

Making American Art presents a thematic, interdisciplinary examination of art in the United States from the seventeenth century to the present day.

The themes and issues…

Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think…

Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary…

By the time you read this book, the art world may have witnessed the sale of its first $500 million painting. Whilst for some people…

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how…

Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of…