The Arts: General Issues

The baptismal font in the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Siena is a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance. It was created between 1416 and 1434 by ...

Exploring a breathtaking range of imagined cities submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined and salvaged this book teases ou...

Lighting Design Beyond Theatre provides a step-by-step design process for live event lighting outside of traditional theatre, dance, and opera, inc...

Lighting Design Beyond Theatre provides a step-by-step design process for live event lighting outside of traditional theatre, dance, and opera, inc...

Im dritten Band der Schriften des Freundeskreises Max Klingers e.V. wird ein neu entdecktes Frauenporträt von Klinger kunsthistorisch wie auch rest...

Between 2005 to 2007 the international documentary photographer Debby Besford researched and photographed a complexity of issues around the represe...

Frans Hals (1582/83-1666) is rightfully considered one of the most important seventeenth-century Dutch painters. His portraits are admired for thei...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023BARNES & NOBLE'S BEST SCIENCE & NATURE BOOKS OF 2023The arts can deliver potent...

An impassioned and convincing case for the importance and rewards of public investment in arts and culture.

Today, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment tha...

An inspirational look book for conceiving, planning, and building an accessory dwelling unit (ADU), a small house that is on the same property as t...

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unreco...

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unreco...

Today, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment tha...

Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture that considers the terms complex registers across emb...

This book explores the intersections of migration and film festivals, with particular attention to their social functions . Adopting an interdiscip...

In June 1879, Royal MS 16 E VIII, a unique 13th-century manuscript, vanished from the Round Reading Room of the British Museum after being returned...

Art in Hong Kong is a fascinating analysis of the history, current status and possible future of Hong Kong as an international art hub, written by ...

His works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers at art institutions...

Contemporary Indigenous popular culture is a dynamic and expansive cultural field that has been gaining momentum since the turn of the twenty-first...

Starting from the premise that after modernism and postmodernism in the Anthropocene an artwork cannot rest upon its separation from the planet, ...

Why do we need art? What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How i...

Kantor: Non/Presence is a rare book that far exceeds the framework set by its eponymous protagonist, a unique work in theater studies by just one a...

How can we create more inclusive spaces in the field of dance? This book presents a framework for dance practitioners and researchers working in di...

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By connecting ideas about faith with...

This book considers the connection between the world of mental health in the twenty-first century and the traditional concept of desire in Christia...

Different Engines investigates the emergence of technologies in Latin America to create images, sounds, video games, and physical interactions. The...

This book explores stage conjuring during its golden age, from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmati...

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual off...

This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp justice or war or...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and con...