Art Forms

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürers depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outs...

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. Th...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

From Texas to the Persian Gulf, Al Qadiris installations underscore the wealth and infrastructures of regions dependent on oil Berlin-based artist...

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the on...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This...

This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understandin...

Zigi Ben-Haim is a painter and sculptor who works with aluminum, wire mesh, burlap, newsprint, and unconventional materials. His constant reinventi...

Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.Chapters present a ...

In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is perfo...

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre. The discussions in this book borrow from the literature on dementias represe...

We all want a home that is as much tailored to our lives as it is inviting (and impressive) to guests. House Rules helps you achieve both, encourag...

This structural account of independent performing arts in Europe is complimented by an analysis of the challenging social situation within the fiel...

In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

Visions of modernity Architect, artist, designer, and visionary, Frederick Kiesler was one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth centur...

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption an...

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption an...

Antonio Canova invented a new genre with his Ideal Heads. They were intended as gifts for close friends and persons he admired as an expression of ...