The Arts: General Issues

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human e...

Essays consider recent artistic and critical approaches to materiality, focusing on the moments when materials become willful actors and agents wit...

Katharina Grosse''s painting practice is a phoenix from the ashes of late Modernism, appending themselves to the Greenbergian cul de sac in an unca...

Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative montage of words and pictures, emp...

From the first ever sketch of the Red Cross logo by its founder Clara Barton to a cartoon scrawled on a love letter from Charles Bukowski, the obje...

Dick Higgins and his Something Else Press epitomized the riotous art of the 60s There are few art-world figures as influentialand as little knowna...

This volume assembles essays by 25 emerging and established scholars, who have turned their minds to the art and the writing of it in Southeast Asi...

Explore the awesome world of art through 20 awesome works from Southeast Asia! Perfect for the young and young at heart, Awesome Art dispels the no...

With the birth of contemporary museum culture and the advent of digital technologies, the 21st century has brought a whole new means by which to ac...