This is the essential student’s guide to Design – its practice, its theory and its history. Drawing from a wide range of international examples, respected…

In Aesthetics and Material Beauty, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting…

Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes…

What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? Or in the developed West and…

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with…

Quantifying and assessing the value of an organization’s design department can be problematic. The tools traditionally used by auditors are usually insufficient to ‘measure’ either…

Third Text is an international scholarly journal dedicated to providing critical perspectives on art and visual culture. Third Text addresses the complex cultural…

Making Art History is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art history as it responds to institutions as…