The Arts: General Issues

Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere seed of modernism, a crude attempt to reproduce an exact copy of reality on stage. Art, Visio...

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist,...

The book Locus Fratrum is the first attempt at a systematic analysis of the architecture and building practice of the last major medieval monastic ...

This book comprises current, original, empirical studies of career-making in theatre, music, film, TV, visual arts, fashion design, and architectur...

The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, «Knight’s Tale» and «Troilus and C...

Want to know what it’s like to write for a theme park attraction? Or an interactive toy? Or a virtual reality game? Wait – those tell stories? And ...

The contributing authors to this book, all pre-eminent scholars in their fields, present their current thinking about the processes that underlie c...

Taking Aim! The Business of Being an Artist Today is a practical, affordable resource guide filled with invaluable advice for the emerging artist. ...

With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo container...

Just what do psychoanalysis and modern sculpture have to do with one another? The present collection of essays, unique in its field, shows how key ...

Despite the musical and social roles they play in many parts of the world, wind bands have not attracted much interest from sociologists. The Socio...

A Closer Look is the new series title for the updated and refreshed National Gallery Pocket Guide range. The series has been enhanced with a strong...

Dedicated to the late Gerard Béhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contribut...

Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists, however the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures esta...

The rehabilitation of British music began with Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford. Ralph Vaughan Williams assisted in its emancipation from...

This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in dr...

This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements...

An Actor’s Work on a Role is Konstantin Stanislavsky’s classic exploration of the rehearsal process, applying the techniques of his seminal actor ...

Contemporary art exhibitions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modeling a new and expansive understanding of global aesthetics.In this ori...

The New World Border is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic and geo-political ideology, a disorienting free-fall into the space between cultures, a...

Sound Art offers the first comprehensive introduction to sound art written for undergraduate students. Bridging and blending aspects of the visual ...

In a struggling global economy, education is focused on core subjects such as language arts and mathematics, and the development of technological a...

In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant’s body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a...

This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media f...

Working with the Web Audio API is the definitive and instructive guide to understanding and using the Web Audio API. The Web Audio API provides a p...

Gothic Modern illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz and their artist contemporaries. It explore...

Focusing on fine art and documentary photography, this book provides a racially diverse and culturally inclusive version of photography history and...

Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth centur...

With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo container...

Craig Richardson here addresses key areas of cultural politics and identity in a way that not only illuminates the development of Scottish art, but...

The volume comprises 16 papers given at the conference Re-Inventing Traditions held in Berlin in 2012. It negotiates the question of the transmissi...

This richly illustrated volume explores the eroticization of death in the literature, art, and music of the nineteenth century, and in the popular ...

Aaron Copland (1900-1990) is generally considered the most popular and well-known composer of American art music, and yet little scholarly attentio...

At his untimely death in 1998, photographer Ricardo Valverde (b. 1946) had for almost three decades documented the various communities and social s...

Kamishibai (paper-theater), a Japanese picture-storytelling medium, is gaining global interest as we move from a text-based culture to one that emp...

Notwithstanding the wealth of material published about St Clare of Assisi (1193-1253) in the context of medieval scholarship, and the wealth of vis...

Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History is a significant contribution to the fields of theory, Darwin studies, and cultural history....

The relationship between the arts has fascinated people for centuries. Discussing the ancient notion of ekphrasis, this study examines the interpen...

Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and persp...

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were com...

The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores th...

We think primarily in images, and only secondarily in words, while both the image and the word are preceded by the bodily, the visceral, the muscul...

This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng...

In this significant study of the music of Pierre Boulez, Dr. Koblyakov provides a complete analysis of Le Marteau sand Maître and deals with the de...