Art Forms

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions fac...

This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know w...

The Dancing God: Staging Hindu Dance in Australia charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in...

This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address ...

This volume responds to calls in visual and material cultural studies to move beyond the visual and to explore the multi-sensory impact of the imag...

When the body is foregrounded in artwork as in much contemporary performance, sculptural installation and video work so is gendered and sexualise...

By uniquely treating Gerhard Richters entire oeuvre as a single subject, Darryn Ansted combines research into Richters first art career as a social...

Sustainability in an Imaginary World explores the social agency of art and its connection to complex issues of sustainability. Over the past decade...

This book presents the latest research that shows how design thinking, making, and acting contribute to the co-designing and development of product...

Turner as Draughtsman looks at the artist's practice of drawing in various media (pen, pencil and chalk as well as watercolour and oil paint), an a...

Le Théâtre du Soleil traces the companys history from a group of young, barely trained actors, directors, and designers struggling to match their p...

Le Théâtre du Soleil traces the companys history from a group of young, barely trained actors, directors, and designers struggling to match their p...

This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the fa...

This book examines Théodore Géricaults images of black men, women and children who suffered slaverys trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth ...

Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photographys long and complex re...

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

This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affe...

Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics uncovers these t...

First Published in 2002, Visual Words provides a unique and interdisciplinary evaluation of the relationship between images and words in this perio...

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the diffe...

Conservation of Easel Paintings, Second Edition provides a much-anticipated update to the previous edition, which has come to be known internationa...

By entering and critically re-activating the Zionist photographic archive established by the Division of Journalism and Propaganda of the Jewish Na...

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wid...

This title was first published in 2002: Jörg Breu belonged to the generation of German Renaissance artists that included Dürer, Cranach, Grünewa...

Performative theatre is one of the most important trends of our time. It is emblematic of the work of many European theatrical artists in the early...

Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the gen...

Theatre of the Sphere is Luis Valdezs exploration of the principles that underlie his innovations as a playwright, teacher, and theatrical innovato...

This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth cent...

The Carthusian monks at San Martino began a series of decorative campaigns in the 1580s that continued until 1757, transforming the church of their...

This edited volume considers the many ways in which landscape (seen and unseen) is fundamental to placemaking, colonial settlement, and identity fo...

Wallpapers spread across trades, class and gender is charted in this first full-length study of the materials use in Britain during the long eighte...

For whom does the actor perform? To answer this foundational question of the actors art, Grotowski scholar Kris Salata explores acting as a self-re...

The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of...

Cyanotype is the most accessible and frequently used of all the alternative photographic processes. When utilized properly, it has the potential to...

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. ...