Theory of Art

On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive,...

This book explores the relationship between social justice practices and the Arts in Education. It argues that social justice practices, at their b...

Design History has become a complex and wide-ranging discipline. It now examines artefacts from conception to development, production, mediation, a...

Nearly every form of religion or spirituality has a vital connection with art. Religions across the world, from Hinduism and Buddhism to Eastern Or...

Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis The work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898–1944) occupies a key position in the broader history of the Austria...

Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj

This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Provides an overview of the most significant iss...

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship. Addressing contexts and ...

This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Provides an overview of the most significant iss...

Between Art and Anthropology provides new and challenging arguments for considering contemporary art and anthropology in terms of fieldwork practic...

Epilogue by Christine Buci-GlucksmannKarel Appel. A Gesture of Colour is the first of a series of six volumes, bringing together the most important...

Dialogisches Handeln in der Kunst Barbara Holubs sozial und politisch engagierte Kunstpraxis verknüpft seit dreißig Jahren urbane Entwicklungen, g...

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship. Addressing contexts and ...

For much of the nineteenth century, women artists laboured under the same restrictions and taboos they had endured for centuries, and it was assume...

In recent years there has been a huge amount of both popular and academic interest in storytelling as something that is an essential part of not on...

Operative fiction: New narrative strategies With Fiction Fiction, visual artist Elena Peytchinska and poet Thomas Ballhausen are continuing their...

Being an audience participant can be a confusing and contradictory experience. When a performance requires us to do things, we are put in the situa...

An enthralling anthology of introspective thoughts from today's most highly esteemed artists, poets, and critics regarding the elusive subject of t...

In the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum between the binary extremes of black and white it’s not gray, as you might expect, but green. And wit...

Spanning thirty years of intensive research, this book proves what many scholars could not explain: that today’s Western world must be considered t...

This book redefines the history of modernity by focusing on how people used photography to affirm continuity and social stability during a time def...

This book examines the history of American exhibitions of Russian art in the twentieth century in the context of the Cold War. Because this history...