How do photojournalists get the pictures that bring us the action from the world's most dangerous places? How do picture editors decide which photos to scrap and which to feature on the front page? Find out in "Get the Picture", a personal history o...

Emerging from the world of commercial art and product styling, design has now become completely integrated into human life. Its marks are all around us, from the chairs we sit on to the Web sites on our computer screens. One of the pioneers of desi...

The author explores little-known works on paper by nineteen leading artists.

Following World War I, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged with the ambition to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy whose careers cov...

What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in...

The work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-1992) is becoming increasingly important to English-speaking scholars concerned with issues of representation".To Destroy Painting", first published in France in 1977, marks a milestone...

"Ancestral Connections" unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu – an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land – and applying both anthropological and art histori...

Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial processes as well, it is only recently that design itself has become the focus of intellectual debate. In "Design Discourse", Victor Margolin gathers together a b...

Acknowledgments Introduction: Iconology Part One: The Idea of Imagery 1. What Is an Image? Part Two: Image versus Text Figures of the Differences 2. Pictures and Paragraphs: Nelson Goodman and the Grammar of Differences 3. Nature and Convention: Go...

Introduction Howard Nemerov: On Poetry and Painting, With a Thought of Music Giulio Carlo Argan: Ideology and Iconology Joshua C. Taylor: Two Visual Excursions Elizabeth Abel: Redefining the Sister Arts: Baudelaire's Response to the Art of Delacroix...