The Arts: General Issues

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...