Art Forms

This volume is a study of the connected ideas of queer and gender performance or performativity over the past several decades, providing an ambitio...

This edited volume is about the application of design-led approaches for developing interventions that have the intention of addressing real-world ...

Rendering Tips for the Costume Designer: Simple Steps for Better Drawing and Painting is a guide for students and costume designers who want to imp...

In the fully rewritten third edition of this classic text, Nicholas Mirzoeff introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visibl...

First published 1990, this volume consists of an introductory essay by Ian Lowe and a comprehensive catalogue of all Wilfred Faircloughs prints, so...

Title sequences are the most obvious place where photography and typography combine on-screen, yet they are also a commonly neglected part of film ...

The French Revolution had a marked impact on the ways in which citizens saw the newly liberated spaces in which they now lived. Painting, gardening...

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 15331612), 'the greatest artist youve never heard of'. One of the first original icon...

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

Performance Art: Education and Practice is an introduction to performance art through activities and practice prompts that are framed by seminal mo...

This book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably Indias most iconic contemporary artist today, w...

Few devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijns radical contributions to self-portraiture. Challenging the conventions enshri...

Artists in the Archive explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a stunning collection of critical writings and original...

This was first published in 2000: A study of John Ruskin's engagement with art and architecture as a critic, a patron and a teacher. It offers insi...

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the d...

This title was first published in 2002: Draw ing on extensive primary research, Greg Smith describes the shifting cultural identities of the Englis...

Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation in the world today. This fully illu...

Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists makes one of the oldest known photographic processes easy for the 21...

A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation is just that a book that takes you through the various stages of becoming an historical costumed inte...

Needle Work: Stitched Illustrations is a lavishly illustrated volume that explores the growing trend in textile-based art and illustration. The wor...

Pierre-Auguste Renoirs (18411919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived from our large-for...

Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (18321883) is now considered a crucial figu...

Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (18321883) is now considered a crucial figu...