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In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that ‘women don’t paint very well’. Whilst shocking, his comments reveal what Helen Gørrill argues is prolific discrimination in the artworld. In a …

Critical writings and commentary by the Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley.The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, …

"e;Adrian Stokes (1902-72) - aesthete, critic, painter and poet - is among the most original and creative writers on art of the twentieth century. He was the author of over …

A collection of 12 essays written by academics, writers and thinkers, Moving Impressions: Essays on Art and Experience celebrates the artistic and cultural works which have …

In this volume a group of distinguished aestheticians consider the distinctive ways painting, sculpture, music, poetry and the cinema approach their subject matter and add to our …

Jean-Fran ois Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. His impact has been felt across many disciplines: sociology; cultural …

This book considers how art actually works, how the various art forms connect with the world of ordinary human experience. A key idea is that art is representation through …

The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth century As an artist, an impresario, a biographer and a collector, …

Art is not political action. Art is not education. Art does not exist to make society stronger, or the world a better place. Art disrupts and resists the comfortable, the …

The Spirit of Secular Art: A History of the Sacramental Roots of Contemporary Artistic Values explains the spiritual prestige of art. Various theorists have discussed how art has …