The Arts: General Issues

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, disability and Crip theory...

This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidenc...

This book considers the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicotts (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding tr...

This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined an...

This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic intervention...

This book offers tools to address the growing and urgent interest in exposing and challenging unconscious biases in the studio, exploiting how acto...

Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding...

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (195053), this book shows the dynam...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürers depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outs...

Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epi...

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. Th...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Providing interdisciplinary and international ...

Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies...

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, sig...

This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understandin...

Design Materials and Making for Social Change spans the two interconnected worlds of the material and the social, at different scales and in differ...

Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorises artists responses to ...

Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.Chapters present a ...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

This book reclaims Hegels notion of the end of artor, more precisely, of arts past characternot just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as...

Heralded as the father of Indian Creative Dance, and Indias cultural ambassador, Uday Shankar (19001977) was a dancer and choreographer who created...

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960sfrom minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-spe...

The Green New Deal is the most exciting idea in American politics for decadesand as theses powerful posters make clear, its grabbed the attention n...

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre. The discussions in this book borrow from the literature on dementias represe...

This structural account of independent performing arts in Europe is complimented by an analysis of the challenging social situation within the fiel...

In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

How do fashions in drinks work, and how are drinks fashions related to changing trends in clothes and apparel? These twin questions are posed and a...

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century Anti-Aesthetic movement an...

Through a curated collection of key Jain paintings, this volume offers a glimpse into the way people lived in western India during the medieval tim...

How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist perio...

This book takes a creative approach in examining one of the biggest crises of our time: that of mental suffering, distress and anxiety. By bringing...

Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction befo...

Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of histor...

How do geopolitical, economical, and socio-political upheavals impact the field of art todayThis monograph takes a look at how the increasing multi...

This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as...

This edited volume explores the notion of artifice in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries aroun...

The debate about the return of cultural assets to former colonial territories is highly topical and at the same time much older than most assume. ...