The Arts: General Issues

A brief study of select Western art from Italys foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince wit...

Jeanne Mammens watercolour images of the gender-bending new woman and her candid portrayals of Berlins thriving nightlife appeared in some of the m...

The way we conceptualise the economy and ourselves as homo economicus has profound consequences for our lives. The contributions to this anthology ...

Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work...

Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration examines the role of sketches, drawings and other artworks in our understanding of human cult...

Scale matters. When conducting research and writing, scholars upscale and downscale. So do the subjects of their work - we scale, they scale. Altho...

The dry, wrinkled skin, crows feet and rheumy eyes of old women can be seen universally; yet the actual images and their meaning differ widely, and...

Philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman is one of the most innovative and influential critical thinkers writing today. This book is the...