The Arts: General Issues

Best Fit Lines and Curves, and Some Mathe-Magical Transformations (Volume III of the Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting series) concent...

Learning, Unlearning and Re-learning Curves (Volume IV of the Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting series) focuses in on Learning Curves,...

Museum and Gallery Publishing examines the theory and practice of general and scholarly publishing associated with museum and art gallery collectio...

The artist, dancer and educator Suzanne Harris (1940-79) was a protagonist of the downtown New York City artists community in the 1970s. With her b...

This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European theatre performance practice fro...

This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice during the period 1580 to 1750...

Arm-rings are among the most common items of jewellery. From the earliest times, they have appeared in various shapes and materials. The wearing of...

Probability, Statistics and Other Frightening Stuff (Volume II of the Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting series) considers many of the ...

The art and science of audiovisual preservation and access has evolved at breakneck speed in the digital age. The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) i...

Im Jahr 1998 unterzeichnen 42 Staaten die Washingtoner Prinzipien. Es werden gerechte und faire Lösungen gefordert und dazu die Schaffung innerstaa...

Thoughtful Images demonstrates that there is a rich tradition of illustrations of philosophy that originated in Ancient Greece, spread throughout E...

Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Ha...

A renowned art critic of the 1960s, Carla Lonzi abandoned the art world in 1970 to found Rivolta Femminile, a pioneering feminist collective in Ita...

'Place in garden, lawn, to beautify landscape. When Don Featherstones plastic pink flamingos were first advertised in the 1957 Sears catalogue, th...

In the 1980s, the Ontario Board of Censors began to subject media artists work to the same cuts, bans, and warning labels as commercial film. Rulin...

Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of 'high art', Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the most provocat...

Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that intervene in war and ecological disasters, in inequalit...

What is design philosophy and why is it needed? This important book explains the disciplines recent emergence, the key questions which dominate it,...

Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US...

If virtuality is being celebrated as heralding a radically new era, rich with new possibilities and futures hitherto unimagined through cybernetics...

Walter Kaesbach gehört zu den engagierten Persönlichkeiten des deutschen Kulturlebens der zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts. E...

The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing ...

The sea, the sky, the veins of your hands, the earth when photographed from space--blue sometimes seems to overwhelm all the other shades of our wo...