The Arts: General Issues

From Object to Performance identifies, analyses, and critically contemplates the advent of a “performance mentality” and the gradual maturation of ...

First published in 1978, Artists and People examines the formal attempts by arts administrators to set up schemes for artists to work in community ...

The term 'anachoresis' is derived from the Greek verb 'anachorein' (‘to withdraw’). The practice of retreat has a long tradition in art and cultura...

Videogames and Metareference is the first edited collection to investigate the rise of metareference in videogames from an interdisciplinary perspe...

Outcome of the multifaceted project In and Out of Brussels - book & DVD.‘In and Out of Brussels’ examines four Brussels-based artistic projects...

This book illuminates the crucial role photography played from the very beginning of the Russian colonial presence in Central Asia and its entangle...

This book illuminates the crucial role photography played from the very beginning of the Russian colonial presence in Central Asia and its entangle...

Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art explores cinematic and artistic representations of migration and mobility in Europe from the 19...

This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study of suffering and literature examines how literature can give expression to the essentially wordless real...

Presents a theory of art which is at once universal in its general conception and historically-grounded in its attention to aesthetic practices in ...

Art Brut, also termed Outsider Art, has long been suppressed from most art historical writing. Why this rejection? The hyperbolic expressions of ...