The Arts: General Issues

The greatest paintings in today's most famous museums were once part of a fluid exchange determined by volatile political fortunes. In the firs...

This notebook provides an intimate insight into the writing process of Austrian psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960), using excerpts of a facsim...

As prominent members of the Victorian cultural and artistic world, Sir Charles and Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, along with their nephew Charles Locke E...

This is the first English language technical study of one of the most important Italian artists of the post-WWII period. Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) ...

A highly accessible introduction to arts-based research (ABR), this widely used text provides a practical guide for researchers who want to uncover...

This book will be an original and indispensable resource for all who believe in the importance of art in the wider educational realm. Framing the r...

Emanuel Leutze''s life-size Washington Crossing the Delaware commemorates the critical moment in the American Revolution when George Washington led...

The stages of the creative process-from unlearning to beginning again-seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, and ...

An exploration of the relationship between games and art that examines the ways that both gamemakers and artists create game-based artworks. Gam...

skulptur includes exceptional work by seventeen contemporary sculptors from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden who were selected by the ...

The volume presents remarkable works by internationally renowned artists and provides insight into the private collection of the Frankfurt-based co...

A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twen...

Where are the style guides for glamorous older women? Where are the guides for the woman who wants to age with cocktail in hand, surrounded by admi...

The idea of contemporary art sometimes allows us to pretend we have made a clean break with the past. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry...

The intellectual and imaginative engagement of social trauma is presented in this book that investigates how writers, visual artists, theater pract...

A perfect book for lovers of movies and movie posters. Over 300 color images of vintage movie posters include the extremely rare drive-in theater p...

In this third installment in her pictogram series for TASCHEN, leading graphic designer Yang Liu brings the way we were face to face with the way w...

How many times have you heard the term 'curate' in the past few years? But what exactly does it mean? Curating has been a key concept both in and o...

In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositor...

Anyone writing about a work of art needs to establish at the outset how much it has changed since it was first made. This simple, informative and p...

Are the visual arts really so central in our time that, as Doug Adams once said, people under 60, raised on television remember by what they see. ...

The official companion to Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson''s award-winning film Anomalisa. From Academy Award-winner Charlie Kaufman and Duke John...