The Arts: General Issues

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. ...

In this book, Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir uncovers the crucial role of esotericism in the art of the Vienna Actionistsa group of Austrian neo-avant-gard...

This volume explores the Indian artist, K. Venkatappas (18861965) life, his works and the political and cultural contexts that influenced and inspi...

This book is the first to examine Renoirs handling of fashion and textiles, so opening up a fresh approach to the initially fêted artist who came ...

When artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem solving. The first book to trace t...

Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, ...

A Visual Language is a practical introduction to the language of the visual arts, with a strong, innovative methodology. This expanded second editi...

Pick up your pencil, embrace your inner artist, and learn how to draw in thirty days with this approachable step-by-step guide from an Emmy award-w...

Reconciling Art and Mothering contributes a chorus of new voices to the burgeoning body of scholarship on art and the maternal and, for the first t...

To Henri Lefebvre, the space and 'lived everydayness' of the inter-dependent, multi-faceted city produces manifold possibilities of identifiction a...

Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new histori...

Clever images of dissent are not a recent phenomenon in the United States. . . . [Signs of Resistance is] visually fascinating. . . . [and] there i...

Das Wasser: Metapher für heilendes Element oder Symbol für zerstörerische Urkraft? In den Werken des Jugendstils schaffen (be)rauschende Wellen, Fi...

Die sehr reich bebilderte Publikation zur Sammlung des Bröhan-Museums, das 1973 von dem Sammler und Unternehmer Karl H. Bröhan (19212000) gegründet...

The 10thInternationalSymposium on SmartGraphics was held during June 24- 26, 2010 in Ban?, Alberta, Canada. Smart Graphics brings together research...

5b presents Personicx, an artists book by Theo Christy. The publication focuses on a collection of A4 collages, prints, and drawings by the artist ...

Art at the Crossroads: The Surprising Aesthetics of the Texas Panhandle underscores the striking richness of art stories about the Texas Panhandlea...

In contrast to the divide between conception and execution advocated by Anglo-American artists in the second half of the 1960s, this book reapprais...

Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of d...

Immutable: Designing History explores the banal genre of the document and its entanglement with statecraft and colonial(ism/ity). This is framed a...