Art Forms

Progressive Perspective Drawing for Theatrical Scene Design provides theatrical scenic designers with the tools to create quick and precise perspec...

This visually stunning and technically detailed book is an in-depth analysis of the materials and techniques used on thirty eight of the V&A's ...

Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and arch...

The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avan...

ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN's pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performan...

Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances.Through a series of experiments...

This volume, the second of two, contains the proceedings of the Shepard conference organized in Brussels, 28-30 May 1993, by the Belgian-Luxembourg...

This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Th...

At present, we are witnessing a significant transformation of established forms of spectatorship in theatre, performance art and beyond. In particu...

In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmon...

Theatrical characters dual existence on stage and in text presents a unique, challenging case for the analytical philosopher. Analytic Philosophy a...

The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlin...

Game Audio Implementation offers a unique practical approach to learning all about game audio. If you've always wanted to hear your sound or music ...

This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors predilection for Italian ...

Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World explores the discourses that have linked theatrical performance and prevailing dictatorial regi...

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that...

This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things, human actors and immaterial representations ...

A mini art show of the celebrated artist's best-known and little-seen paintings, reproduced on stamps from around the world.  Exceptionally pr...

Using Pieter de Marees' Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602) as her main source material, author Elizabeth Sutto...

Having been mistakenly perceived as a follower of Salvador Dalí, Catalan surrealist painter and writer Àngel Planells (19011989) has passed through...

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces.Imaginat...

The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century London theatre scen...

First published in 1999, this book asks what kind of advice was available to somebody wishing to embark upon oil painting in England between 1850 a...

Before Modernism, narrative painting was one of the most acclaimed and challenging modes of picture-making in Western art, yet by the early twentie...

In this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a str...

Through a series of case studies, this book explores the role of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time. The cont...

Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focus...

Bridging art and innovation, this book invites readers into the processes of artists, curators, cultural producers and historians who are working w...

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schieles work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artists visual b...

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza investigates how and why the ...

This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted gateways of churches in the nort...

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and gr...

New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms...

Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth...

This 10th Anniversary Edition of Force: Animal Drawing: Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators offers readers an enlarged and an enhan...