John Roberts

John Roberts is  Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books include The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday; The Philistine Controversy (with Dave Beech), Philosophizing the Everyday, and The Necessity of Errors. He is also a contributor to Radical Philosophy, Oxford Art Journal, Historical Materialism, Third Text, and Cabinet magazine. He lives in London.

Books

  • 9781844677399-the-necessity-of-errors

    The Necessity of Errors

    A groundbreaking exploration of the process of error and how we learn from it, in philosophy and history of science, from Plato to Adorno.
  • 9781844671670-frontcover

    The Intangibilities of Form

    A rich and groundbreaking study of conceptual art, from Duchamp to Warhol.

  • 9780860914570-frontcover

    Art Has No History!

    Lively essays on the role of intention and agency in understanding art.