The Arts: General Issues

This survey of the life and work of American painter Susan Watkins explores how she and other women artists carved paths to success at the turn of ...

"Beyond Vision" is the first English-language collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882 1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, sc...

The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion places objects and bodies at the center of scholarly studies of religious life and practice.Propelling ...

This book focuses on the role of La MaMa Experimental Theatre within Avant-garde theater during the 1960s and 1970s.This study investigates the inv...

This study presents the history of the Market Photo Workshop (MPW) in Johannesburg and works produced by its new generation of photography students...

This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the i...

By carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic, this book offers a unique contribution to both photography ...

This book examines three exhibitions of contemporary art held at the Vienna Künstlerhaus during the period of National Socialist rule and shows how...

In July 1980 London’s National Gallery paid a record sum for a canvas that purported to be Peter Paul Rubens’s Samson and Delilah (1609). But as th...

First published in 1987, The Heritage Industry sets out to protect the present and the future of life in Britain from their most dangerous enemy: a...

This volume explores culture-bound syndromes, defined as a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and/or relational) experienced only by members of...

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier f...

The Art of Sensorial Language examines audience interaction, multisensory experiences that can be understood internationally and cross-culturally. ...

First published in 1986, Too Much records the tumultuous period between 1960 and 1975 when, more than at any other time in history, the arts were a...

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art wh...

Art, Crime and Madness explores the relationship between creative innovation, deviance and morbidity. To innovate, one has to be able to view the m...

This is the first monograph fully dedicated to critically investigating the political, economic, artistic, urban, and societal relationships of Man...

In 2008 an Iraqi artist was waterboarded as performance art. In 2010 artists upturned police cars in Russia. But what exactly do we mean by milit...