By 1914, the noisy battles that marked the birth of the rebellious group of impressionist artists were long ago, and the young rebels who provoked them - tho...
This book by the outstanding art historian Ernst Gombrich examines the features of the depiction of shadows in Western painting. The author draws our attenti...
The book contains texts by Boris Groys, written between 1976 and 1990, published in the Leningrad samizdat magazines “37” and “Hours” and the Parisian tamizd...
"Special Cases" is a collection of essays about significant works of art created over the last century and their authors, who pushed Groys to new discoveries...
This collection of articles, written mostly in 2018–2019 in different countries on different topics by specialists of different sciences and methods, can be ...
“The Museum Beyond Itself” is a manifesto against the dull uniformity and one-dimensionality that diligent control and order often lead to, and at the same t...
The book examines the history of costume from the time of the French Revolution to the present day from an unusual perspective. It contains fascinating chapt...
James Elkins (b. 1955), art historian, art critic, professor at the Art Institute of Chicago, offers a historical overview of art teaching from Antiquity to ...
This book is about cinema. There are thirty chapters, each with a question about cinema that needs to be answered. Sometimes these are very stupid questions,...
Terry Smith (b. 1944) is an Australian theorist, critic and curator of contemporary art, a former member of the Art & Language collective, which stood at the...
A leading art theorist reflects on art in the age of the Internet. During the 20th century, faith in the stability of art institutions was gradually lost. Ac...
The first monograph on the work of Lydia Masterkova (1927–2008), one of the few female artists of the unofficial artistic environment of the late 60s - mid-7...
